Alfred Hitchcock is an interesting subject to investigate. He created many of the techniques that used in suspense genre. He was one of the most famous directors and well known to the public. His work has enhanced the way movies are made. Hitchcock understood how to engage his audience and how to, as he said, “always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” His use of music, frame, angles, colors and other techniques engage the makes the audience feel as part of the movie. The question now is not the beauty of Hitchcock’s work but is more about investigating the techniques he used to understand the way he thinks and work. In this essay, two movies, “Strangers On A Train” and “Rare Window,” will be studied. The opening scene in Rare Window tells a lot …show more content…
He tells his stories visually, leaving the scene out of any dialogue to enhance the audience’s experiences. As the opening credit presented at the beginning of the movie, in the background the curtains are raised up to make the audience feel there is something about to happen, to engage the audience while running the credits. The use of Point of View technique in this scene is remarkable. The camera changes its angle imitating an action of a person approaching the window. After that, it takes the audience to observe what the neighbors are doing. Small details add more to this shot. For example, as the camera pans around the neighborhood, half-naked children run after a water truck. This detail makes the audience feel the intensity of the hot weather. When the camera pans into Jefferies’s apartment, it reveals lots of information about Jefferies. Hitchcock did not need a dialogue