The Birds

THE BIRDS

The Birds is a thriller which was released in 1963. This was Alfred Hitchcock most treiffing film he has made. The thriller bird is based on hundreds of birds attacking the public. This starts to happen regularly in the film, the first time the birds start to attack is when Melanie is coming back from     

Mitch house then she had got attacked by a bird and made her head cut. This shows that they have not noticed that the birds have started to attack them. Furthermore this thriller shows that it is faced paced also it shows that it is always packed with action, this indicates that the story is still moving on with the action going on. For example as one of the scene of the man's eyes have been pecked out it shows the dramatic facial expression the woman is expecting. In addition to this there is a awkward silence going on as she has found out that the birds have been in as she looks at the broken tea cups, as she keep son walking the woman is shocked and there is no noise that she is making. As she has entered the room she is looking around to find out what has happened to the man, as she looks further on she has seen the man without his eyes the reaction was like she was going to pass out as she has looked at him.   

Moving on towards the school scene. This scene shows dramatic irony in it by showing that as the audience start to find out that the birds have started to gather, however Tippi does not know the birds have started to gather around in the playground behind her. As they have started to gather the school children are singing a child song so it gives it that scariness to the audience, Hitchcock had used the well because it gives the
e idea that the birds are evil and shouldn't take nature for granted, this also shows when they are at the cafe it shows a high angle of birds started to pour down and started to attack the humans this implies that as the high angle shows that someone has sent them to attack the people to send a warning possibly.

The Macguffin shows the plot to grab the viewers attention and drives the plot of the movie. The macguufin uses different types of nature for example undefined and generic, and many more this also shows that this commonly explains money, power, survival or a threat. The macguffin is most used in thriller types of movies, however the most general focus is on the first act. This may comeback into the film, although it is normally forgotten at the end of the film.

The scene when Tippi goes up too the room with all the birds in there took a week to do due to the fact that they had connected really birds to her clothing so the don't get away from her. This movie was used in 370 different types of shots.

At the end of the film there were different types of endings that they could have chosen, as one of the shots was the birds were covered over the golden gate bridge. However the film was not finished with a title the end, Hitchcock wanted to tell the audience that the birds have taken over. Due to the fact of the movie called The Birds Alford Hitchcock wanted to tell us that we are harming birds.