Alfred Hitchcock was a very famous director who was born on 13th August 1899 and died on 29th April 1980. Hitchcock is renowned as England's best director as he created many of the techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller. Many of Hitchcock's films had twist ending which really shocked the viewer because no one really did this before Hitchcock, in his film psycho the end shocked everyone in the cinemas. Many of Hitchcock films has one of the main characters on the run from the law, also in most of his films he has blonde female character and one of the main characters. Hitchcock has directed more than 50 films in his time which include North by northwest, Psycho, The Birds and many other of films. In 2007 Hitchcock came first in the Daily Telegraph in the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands. Without Hitchcock cinema would not be what it is today as Hitchcock had so much influence on the film industry, Hitchcock also influenced thriller films as he has created different camera techniques like lighting effects and camera angles that make thriller films look different and more interesting. Hicthcock started making films in british cinema in both silent and early talking films after a sucessful career in the british cinema he moved to hollywood in 1939. Hitchcock has also improved the film industry becuase the different camera techniques has improved how many films have been filmed and edited. Hitchcocks film Psycho is one of the films Hitchcock is known for because of the the twist in the film but also becuase of the shower scene where Hitchcock had around 70 2-3 second shots to make the scene and this had never been done before in film industry and it also gave the audience the sense of gore and violence without actually showing any of it and this had changed the way many films are edited.
