Final Presentation

Sean Savage

Focus
For this project I focused on how each director created
certain feelings in the audience that was present for
their movies
The first is Alfred Hitchcock, who created a very
suspenseful feeling in the audience
The second is Amy Heckerling, who created a lighter,
more comedic feeling in the audience.

Alfred Hitchcock
Born on August 13, 1899, in what is now the London
Borough of Waltham Forest.
Nicknamed The Master of Suspense

He Directed 50 movies over the course of his career

from 1919-1980.

Top 10 Alfred Hitchcock movies

1) Psycho (1960)
2) Rear Window (1954)
3) Vertigo (1958)
4) North By Northwest (1959)
5) The Birds (1963)
6) Strangers on a Train (1951)
7) Rebecca (1940)
8) Notorious (1946)
9) The 39 Steps (1939)
10) Dial M for Murder (1954)

Why he was The Master of

Suspense
He used short, quick shots, different camera angles, and the
music.
An example is in Rear Window he created suspense by using
close calls, like when Lisa is in Thorwalds apartment and he is
approaching the apartment door.
This is also in the movie Psycho, as the killer approaches the
woman in the shower.
Hitchcock uses the music in the movies, with the use of high

Amy Heckerling
Born May 7, 1954, in the Bronx, New York

Directed comedies, like National Lampoons European Vacation,

Clueless, A Night at the Roxbury, and Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.

She is an alum of both the American Film Institute and New York
University.

Movies
The movie Clueless is about a rich high school student
(Alicia Silverstone) who tries to boost a new students
popularity but falls in love with that girls step-brother
Heckerling uses the dialogue of this movie to make it
comedy
She uses this technique in her other movies, like Fast
Times at Ridgemont High and A Night at the Roxbury.

Movies Cont.
National Lampoons European Vacation is a movie where we find
the Griswolds on another adventure, with Chevy Chase as the
lead character. In these movies we see everything go wrong for
almost the entirety of the movie before everything working out in
their favor at the end.
Again we see Heckerlings technique of using the dialogue to
bring comedy to the movie as well as using the events of the
movie to help the dialogue create funny moments.

 Both directors follow a pattern, one uses the music and the
situations the characters are in to create suspense and the other
uses the events of the movie and the dialogue to create comedy
and laughter
Hitchcock uses the music and close call situations to create
suspenseful feelings in the audience through his movies.
Heckerling uses the dialogue of conversation between the
characters and the events that show everything going wrong for
them to create funny moments and one liners to make the