Step 1: It's the mind of the audience which is about the importance of each scene affecting the audience.To be able to achive a thriller like Hitchcock we need to make sure that the content engages the audience and reels them in by using the characters to tease the viewer. This would engage the viewer in wanting more.
Step 2:Frame for emotion
Emotion is the ultimate goal of every sequence.When positioning the camera we should already know what sort of emotion we are trying to potray.Emotion comes directly from the actors eyes so working around the eyes with the camera can give different emotions to the viewer.
Hitchcock used proximity to plan out each scene which helped him control when audience ia feeling intensity or relaxation.
Step 3:Camera is not a camera
The camera should take a human qualities and roam around plaufully looking for something suspicious in a room which makes the audience feel like they are a part of unreveling a story.Hitchcock silent film biginnings had to create a story and he had to use images to buy the audience. Now since 1930s when sound was introduced the main focus becomes dialogue.
Step 4:Dialogue means nothing one of the characters needs to be occupied when having a conversation as it reveals the true feelings and emotion. As Hitchcock says 'people dont always express their inner thoughts to another , a concersation may be quite trivial , but often the eyes will reveal what a person thinks or needs'
Step 5:Point of view editing putting an idea into the mind of the character without explaining it in dialogue is done by using a point of view shot sequence.
Step 6:Montage gives you control caregully choose a close up of a hand ,an arm, a face , a gun falling to the floor a way which potray an event.Hitchcock transferring the menace from the screen into the mind.
Step 7:Keep the story simlple the key in creating a Hitchcock energy is by using simplistic, linear stories that the audience can easily follow.
Step 8:Characters must break cliche
Make your characters the exact opoaite from what the audience expect them to be like.they should have unexpected personalities.Hotchcock criminals tend to be wealthly upper class citizens whom you'd never suspect , the policeman and politicians are usually the bumbling fools , the innocent are accused and the villians get away with everything because nobody suspects them.
Step 9:Use humor to add tension
Humor is essential to Hitchcock storytelling. Give the character the most ironic situation to deal with.Hitchcock tented to use comical old women to add a flavor of innocent humor in his films.
Step 10:Two things happening at once
Build tension into a scene by using contrasting situations. Use two unrelated things happening at once.
Step 11:Suspense is information
Step 12:Surprise and twist
Step 13:Warning May cause MacGuffin
M.B
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