Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitcock

We first looked at the 13 techniques that Alfred Hithcock uses to create tension and suspense. These 13 techniques are:

- The mind of the audience
- Frame for emotion
- Camera is not a camera
- Dialogue means nothing
- Point of view editing
- Montage gives control
- Keep the story simple
- Characters must break cliche
- Use humour to add tension
- Two things hapening at once
- Suspense is information
- Surprise and twist
- Warning: May cause Macguffin

Examples In Vertigo

• When Scotty is following Madeline and she walks into the art gallery to look at the painting of Carlotta and it looks from Scotty’s point of view.


• When Judie has a flashback of what happened at the bell tower with Madeline’s husband and how they set it up to make it look like she jumped off of the top.
  

Examples in Psycho

• Near the end, in the scene where Lila turns the mother’s skeleton around and Norman as his mother comes into the cellar. It’s all from Lila’s point of view.


• The shower scene where Marianne gets stabbed repeatedly in the back by Norman (as his mother); this is a montage as it shows his hand and then her back as a montage.