Research into Films...

Reasoning for this research - As a group we are all intrested in the genres of horror and thriller, so we have looked up some films and are planning on watching them to see if it something we would like to do.

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock:

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while retaining his British citizenship.

Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else"

Blair Witch Project :

The Blair Witch Project is an American horror film released in 1999. It is presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage, filmed in real time. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three young student filmmakers, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams who hike into the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch, and subsequently go missing. The audience is told that the three were never found, although their video and sound equipment ,along with most of the footage they shot, was discovered a year later. This "recovered footage" is presented as the film the viewer is watching.

The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide, compared to its final budget which ranged between $500,000 and $750,000. The Rotten Tomatoes website provides links to 127 reviews for the film, with 85% of these reviews being favorable. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars, calling it "an extraordinarily effective horror film". It was listed on Film critic.com as the 50th best movie ending of all time. Critics in particular praised Donahue's apology to the camera near the end of the movie, saying it would cause "nightmares for years to come", and which Ebert compared to Robert Scott's final journal entries as he froze to death in the Antarctic

Schindler :
Schindler's List is a 1993 American drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. The film was a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time. Throughout the whole film everything is in black and white other than the litte girls red dress. I liked this concept and idea personally.

I have collected some information from this blog from, www.wikipedia.org Mainly the dates and the main happenings in the movie. As i have heard of these movies but i have never seen them and i needed to know more about them. Now that i have researched them i think i may either watch both of these movies or one and see what happens in them and see if there is anything that i particularly like that i may be able to share with the rest of the group.