Influential Figure-Alfred Hitchcock (By Hayden Woodcock)

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Alfred's main intention was to "always make the audience suffer as much as possible."Therefore, we are planning on using satire to mock the audience and incorporating their worst fears through the antagonistic monster. Additionally, he said that "it must always be remembered that the primary aim of pictures is to provide entertainment. To entertain, one must capture their interest." This also relates to the fact that the audience tension from watching their fears increases their interest because they will likely be on their 'edge of their seat' and morally interact personally with the movie (personal identity.)
"Film examples: Notorious, Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds
Hitchcock's style: "Master of Suspense."Hitchock creatively used blocking, sound and shot types to create suspense, through the dynamic variation to highlight the climax's-the increase in pace enables the tension to increase and creates a crescendo.
Hitchcock's methods: engaging content, character emotions are clear, the camera should act as the audience, dialogue should not express the inner thoughts, montage editing, simple plot, characters must break clichés, humour for more tension, contrasting situations and irony for suspense. These methods are influential because we can include some of these to aid our trailer to success. For example, the camera will act as the audience through point of view shots from a particular level and tracking shots to achieve this. Additionally, we will aim towards contrasting situations by juxtaposing a murder to a calm and relaxing life of a laid back and safe character by cross cutting between the locations. Lastly, the montage editing through particular transitions such as: fades, wipes and short shots edited into a sequence to condense the time and information are all methods we will follow and consider in the editing stage of our production.
Awards: Golden Globe in 1972 and 1958, Won a BAFTA in 1971 for Academy Fellowship and a Lifetime achievement award in 1968.

Two of Hitchcock's most iconic and interesting shots:

This shot is influential because of the specific framing-in the foreground we can see three cups that decrease in size depending on the distance from the audience, this adds verisimilitude because it is naturalistic and the normality with distance. At the top right of the frame we see a shadow of a arm reaching our for the female. This connotes death and the position of the hand instantly signifies that she will probably be strangled. This use of the shadow is conventional for a Film Noir. Moreover, it is interesting how in terms of size the cups appear bigger than the female, providing a shallow depth of field because my focus seems to be drawn towards the foreground. The female is framed on the left of the shot in the background. The use of the filler light on her upper body draws attention to her fear and anxiousness, representing her as a Propp Damsel-in-Distress. The shadow anchors this as we will initially associate this with her downfall. The darkness behind her, juxtaposes the lighting on the opposite side, suggesting that she has a dark future in comparison to the mugs and the hand. 

This shot is a Dutch titled long shot, which is another convention for this genre. The use of lighting here is influential because we can not clearly see the male characters face, connoting secrecy and an enigma for the audience because we are cannot be definite upon whom he is.

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