All Annotations of Film Techniques of Alfred Hitchcock - suspense, camera angles, style, editing, basics[Preview]

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• How
  to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller...
  

  Borgus.com
  - We've put together a list of the most significant film techniques that
  were used by Alfred Hitchcock.  This information comes out of many
  books and interviews from the man himself and his been simplified for your
  consideration.
  
  
  
  This page is mostly for filmmakers who are sad and depressed because their
  movie is so average that nobody will watch it.  Stop crying and pay
  attention.  What is written here will save your career (at least until
  tomorrow morning.)  However there is no cure for a bad producer -
  there may be no help for you!
  
  

• Borgus.com
  - We've put together a list of the most significant film techniques that
  were used by Alfred Hitchcock.  This information comes out of many
  books and interviews from the
  man himself and has been simplified for your consideration.
  
  
  This page is
  mostly for filmmakers who are sad and depressed because their movie is
  so average that nobody will watch it.  Stop crying and pay attention. 
  What is written here will save your career (at least until tomorrow morning!)
  
• Make sure the content engages them and reels them in.
• theater
  audiences know they are safe.
• You can control the intensity of that emotion by
  placing the camera close or far away from those eyes.
• The
  camera should take on human qualities and roam around playfully looking
  for something suspicious in a room.
• Movies
  began to rely on actors talking, and visual storytelling was almost forgotten.
  (Truffaut)  Always use the camera as more than just a camera.
• One of your
  characters must be pre-occupied with something during a dialogue scene. 
  Their eyes can then be distracted while the other person doesn't notice. 
  This is a good way to pull the audience into a character's secretive world.
• Putting
  an idea into the mind of the character without explaining it in dialogue
  is done by using a point-of-view shot sequence.
• Divide action
  into a series of close-ups shown in succession.  Don't avoid this
  basic technique.
• Instead,
  carfully chose a close-up of a hand, an arm, a face, a gun falling to the
  floor - tie them all together to tell a story.
• Humor
  is essential to Hitchcock storytelling. Pretend you are playing a practical
  joke on the main character of your movie. 
• "Information" is essential to Hitchcock suspense; showing
  the audience what the characters don’t see.
• In Family Plot (1976) Hitchcock shows the audience that brake fluid is
  leaking out of a car well before the characters find out about it.
• When scenes are
  built around dramatic tension, it doesn’t really matter what the story
  is about. 

• on 2007-01-09 Fredocs
  Como transformar o seu filme em um sucesso "Hitchcockiano".