The Birds

The Birds

   ' Analyise the trailer'

 'The Birds' trailer contains a lot of the interesting parts of film. It has many of the essential parts too, the scene in the pub after the attack at the school is a very frequent one. The trailer gives off a view on the film that is different to what you actually see in the film. For example, After the main attack, a woman accuses Tippi Hedren of bringing the birds to the town. We then see Tippi hit the woman on the face. As an audience we may think we will see what happens next but in the actual film nothing is done about the part of the story.

Audiences tend to characterise 'thrillers' into a fast-pacing,frequent action. This film has this but in heavy blocks of the film. When we are first introduced to the real bird crisis, we only see the 'fast action' at these times. So by seeing this, the audience realise that everytime we see the slight gathering of birds, we know that it will be followed by the action scene. This makes the film fairly predictable.

Dramatic Irony is also used in the film by Alfred Hitchcock. We see this in the school yard scene where we see Tippi Hedren smoking and we see the birds gathering behind her. The audience are aware of the birds but Tippi isnt. Hitchcocks idea of the film was that as humans we are destroying the world we live in. His message in the film was to allow the birds to have their revenge on humans. He is a firm believer in nature and so this film was made straight from the heart of the Alfred Hitchcock.