Alfred Joesph Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August in 1899, and unfortunately died on the 29th of April 1980. His film career spanned over most of his life as he began to be interested in going to the cinema around 1915. From this he then became a well known British film director and producer, and perfected many techniques within his films such as suspense and was well known to making a lot of psychological thriller genres. He had a very successful British career, filming both silent films and the early talk ones, he then moved to Hollywood. His actual career lasted over half a century and his film style was very distinctive. It was recognisable through his use of camera as it forced viewers to be involved in a form of voyeurism, also through the way he framed shots and he used innovative film editing. The film stories itself were distinctive as a genre as they usually featured criminals on the run, female characters and have twist endings and thrilling plots that involved murder, crime and violence. He is known now to be nicknamed the master of suspense.
His early career was as a title designer, in 1921-22 he did the titles for around eight films. From 1922 till 1925 he was a art director doing 10 films within this time. Hitchcock then directed his first published film in 1925, which was called 'The Pleasure Garden', it was a British/German production and was very popular. This became after his first shot of being a director of a film wasn't so successful two years earlier, from this young age it was clear that Hitchcock wasn't willing to give up at the first knock down. From this his success grew and he made numerous films, totaling up to a massive 67 titles. (http://hitchcock.tv/mov/hfilm.html). His final film release was in 1976, and was called 'Family Plot'.
Key Themes Within His Films.
MacGuffin
The Ordinary Person
Blonde Women
Number 13
Audience as Voyeur
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