Thriller Directors

Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan was born on the 30th of July 1970. He is a producer, screen writer and director. He is famous for films such as Memento, Inception and all the Batman series. He is a neo-noir, nonlinear, psychological writer we can see this as it reflects in his films. Nolan has also worked with screenwriter David S. Goyer, film
editor Lee Smith, composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Jeremy Theobald, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, and Michael Caine.

I have watched all three films before and I have noticed that in the opening he likes to either set the scene or show a motif that will be very important later on in the film but he always tries not to give away the storyline in the begin, he just sets the pace with the location, sound and camera editing letting the audiences thrill develop before the storyline begins.

Felix Gary Gray

Felix Gary Gray born July 17, 1969 is an American film director. He is famous for films such as Law abiding citizen, set it off and Italian Job and other films. He is a crime and action thriller writer this is reflected in his films. He has worked with actors such as Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifa and Jada Pinkette Smith. I have also watched all three of these films and he likes to set the thrill of

the film right at the beginning, giving the audience the storyline from the start but then he as plot twists and a lot of crime and action going on so the audience are still kept guessing what will happen even though they know its based on crime the action in the fight scenes is what the audience are interested in.

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock 13 August 1899 29 April 1980 was a British film director and producer. He led the way in many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. (sources Wikipedia). His most famous thriller is Psycho. His techniques in this film showed what thrillers are meant to be like. It set the grounds of conventions of thrillers, through sound, editing, lighting, misen-scene and camera work.

Shower scene
The murder of Janet Leigh's character in the shower is the film's pivotal scene and one of the best known scenes in cinema history. As such, it spawned numerous myths and legends. It was shot from December 17 to December 23, 1959, and features 77 different camera angles. The scene "runs 3 minutes and includes 50 cuts." Most of the shots are extreme close-ups, except for medium shots in the shower directly before and directly after the murder. The combination of the close shots with their short duration makes the sequence feel more subjective than it would have been if the images were presented alone or in a wider angle, an example of the technique Hitchcock described as "transferring the menace from the screen into the mind of the audience". The soundtrack of screeching violins, violas, and cellos was an original all-strings piece by composer Bernard Herrmann entitled "The Murder." The blood in the scene is in fact chocolate syrup, which shows up better on black-and-white film, and has more realistic density than stage blood. The sound of the knife entering flesh was created by plunging a knife into a melon. The film often features shadows, mirrors, windows, and, less so, water which were the key motifs.