'Good evening ladies and gentleman'
What is an Auteur:
"A filmmaker who influences their movies so much that they rank as their author."
"an auteur is a director, who over a body of work, retains creative control and uses a series of recognisable themes and stylistics that make it recognisable"
Alfred Hitchcock
- He has held a very long career in the early years of film making in england and even in america. The technical competence of the director - no speech expressionist lighting and story telling was done silently in that era.
in the 1920's Hitchcock joined the film industry starting off by just drawing the sets.
The Lodger:
ia a story of the london fog - this was mainy inspired by cubism (cover)
Carrying on with innovative film making: no sound meant that directors had to think about there scenes this pushed innovative ideas such as glass flooring to see the people walking around above or below.
Psycho 1960 - story board
Hitchcock - on Cutting and Montage.
Hitchcock interview where he explains the Psycho shower scene and
his trade mark suspense.
Montage is the Assembling and juxtaposition
Expressionism - Form evokes emotion narratives and are fully visual and that contain no dialogue.
Suspense is generated when the audience can see danger but the character cannot this is no concern to realism or naturalism.
Voyeurism -
Vertigo:
Ther camera freezes on the profile of the woman this side view is used to reflect a feeling of beauty, The theme that was used the whole time is a Viridian Green,
Scottie then goes on to to say: "Their names ............ Green and ever living."
the use of the silhouette also creates a large amount of tension.
The use of viridian Green gives off a feeling that madeline lives again but as judy as she is now associated with this colour also. The use of colour is down to using expressionistic ways. The interior meaning of this was taken on by dAVID o'selzmich who then introduced Hitchcock to psychoanalysis whilst he was working in america.
Some of the themes that have been revisited - the relation ship between order and chaos.
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