Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock's first ever films were silent movies. His silent films were called:

• The Lodger- (1926)
• The Ring- (1927)
• Easy Virtue- (1927)
• Champagne- (1928)
• The Farmer's Wife- (1928)

In his interview that I found on our media blog Hitchcock spoke of how he created emotions without sound, and working with what he had. For example in his film The lodger, in one scene they needed people in the mansion to know someone else was there. In a normal motion picture with sound, non-diegetic sound would have been used to highlight someone else's presence. However in a silent film Hitchcock had to use a clear ceiling with a man walking on it, so that the actors below would look up and realise someone is there.

Hitchcock's directing methods have created an impact on directors today. He created codes and conventions and a starting point for the genre of thrillers. Hence the reason that today hybrids and sub genres have been created, so that the film industry doesn't become repetitive- therefore leading to the industry never dying out.
The whole idea eventually comes back to the one point that genre is the main starting point for everything and for the industry to evolve genre must evolve too, which leads to the creation of sub genres and hybrids.