Youtube Directors (Kathy)

I went on youtube to find out what directors of psychological thrillers thought about each film, and why they chose to do each code and convention.

Brad Anderson (The Machinest)- responded to script, thought it was dark and sureal, writing is not very detailed- only 85 pages can read in 30 mins, and it stuck with him. The script was like a puzzle, can be interpreted differently- wanted it to be more about suspence and like Hitchcocks work.

Alfred Hitchcock- wanted to shock people, people are frightened of the same things they were yesterday e.g. red riding hood, becasue "fright complex is rooted into every individual" wanted to scare women because 80% of audience in cinema are women. Men have little to do with choice of film. Cinema films are the same everywhere and can be played at the same time in several different countries, and is therefore vast. Same audience is responding to same things.

David Lynch (Lost Highway)- saw somthing in the eyes of the character, the feamle role is more important than the male, use existing music to create tension in film, music has to live in the story- listens to loads of music before deciding the perfect piece to go in the film.

Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)- dark, followed story, criminal response, looked at audience to get response, be convinced the film is what you would want to see, need to able to critisise work. Watch with real audience- good gage for next project.

These 4 directors of psychological thriller movies all spoke about scaring people and how different people could interpret a script without explicit directions from the writer, none of them went into codes and conventions in depth although some are clear from the information given e.g. dark, wanting to shock audience, and some wanted to break conventions by having dominant role to be female.