Thursday 19th May
For homework, we were set homework to research more on Alfred Hitchcock(Our teacher absolutely adores this director). Mainly because he is the perfect gamble of an auteur director, and he is very well known, making it easier to find information about him and his films.
SIGNATURE ELEMENTS IN HIS FILMS
- 'The Camera Is Not A Camera'. Instead it is treated more like a character, where it moves around and follows the people around. This affects the audience in a way to make them feel as if they are IN the movie.
- He doesn't base his films on dialogue, but rather the visual story that he is telling. So, many of the actors can communicate their 'internal dialogue' within their eyes and the way they express their faces, rather than talking and externalising their thoughts. This is also called Pure Cinema.
- 'Point Of View' shots. Where the camera reveals what the character is looking at from his or her perspective. It lets the audience connect with the characters on that level and reveal what they are seeing, not just them themselves.
- Simple story lines
- Complex characters
- Hitchcock uses a lot of tension in his films through elements of humour, long shots,
- Uses location as an important part of the story
- If you combine all of this lengthy dialogue, lengthy shots with well blocked camera blocking, it creates both a story in the cinema and a story in the visuals.
HIS INFLUENCES ON POPULAR CULTURE
- He is said to have had an influence in the directing style of David Lynch, M. Night Shymalan, Steven Speilberg, Brian DePalma, and David Fincher, according to 'geektyran'
- Apparently, Hitchcock was the first to incorporate suspenseful elements into his films. This has influenced many other films in the way that
- He began the slasher movie trend, he pushed the boundaries of what was allowed to be shown to the audience, and many films afterwards
- Hitchock has had impacts on very recent movies and tv shows like Big Train, an episode of The Simpsons, and Pretty Little Liars.
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