Hitchcock remains one of the most influential story tellers in the film industry. ... Hitchcock stuck mainly to the murder mystery genre and did not deviate much. ... In this essay I will take two Hitchcock films and analyse how he used editing and direction to emphasis point of view. ... Hitchcock’s 1963 film where birds are beginning to become the dominate force and fight back against man kind.
Editing remains the invisible art form which hardly brings attention to itself. More importantly, it is during editing that a film is either made or broken. To the lay-man editing is seen as “cutting the bad bits out”. Hitchcock used storyboarding as one of his most important tools and often found it boring during production. ... Hitchcock used editing to emphasis point of view. ... This human voyeuristic tendency shines through, throughout Hitchcock’s films. ... Hitchcock opens the film with an extremely long take which sets up the location. ... Though it must have been noticed because Hitchcock storyboards everything I am uncertain of why this cut is there. ... Though Hitchcock has restrained himself and left cutting to a minimal. ... Even with a great amount of storyboarding there is no way of telling if this effect can be pulled off until you are in the editing room. ...
The Birds was made right after Hitchcock made Psycho. ... This can be seen in terms of editing and building to a dramatic climax. Much like the shower scene in Psycho renowned for its editing, the Birds attack Melanie Daniels in a similar circumstance. ... This subject look of the camera and style of editing is very noticeable and does not pass by invisibly. The editing tries to evoke and shocked response by jumping closer and closer to the image that the audience may not want in their face. ... Here Hitchcock is lovingly, mothering the audience. ... Once again Hitchcock has put us in Lydia’s shoes and we are in her point of view. ... Cut to WS bird landing on jungle gym (1:08:29)
Shot 2 (First part and Bird arriving)
Shots 3 & 4
Shots 5 & 6
Shots 7 & 8
Shots 9 & 10
Shot 11
Shot 12 (Bird flying then landing on frame)
Hitchcock films are famous for creating suspense and building up the moment. The birds has no lack of suspenseful scenes but as an editor I chose to look at this one because again I felt that Hitchcock was again force feeding the audience with something they didn’t want. ... Here Hitchcock is manipulating the audience and controls us by what we see and know. ... Cut to CU reaction shot of Melanie (1:22:21)
Shots 3 & 4
Shots 5 & 6
Shots 7 & 8
Shots 9 & 10
Shots 11 & 12
I feel the editing here is interesting though I am not sure it was much to do of editing and more to do of shot planning. ...
A film is either made or broken during editing. ... Hitchcock has demonstrated in the scenes I have chosen that editing serves a purpose and if breaking the rules gets the point across then it has served its purpose. ... Hitchcock’s strong point of view portrayal is seen from these two films. Though a lot of planning has gone into the film prior to production during editing the film is made. In editing you determine how long the audience has to wait for the next shot and what reactions the audience will feel.
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