Rule 1: Start Long and then come closer as the scene progresses Rule 2: Close ups should be used to show an object is about to become important to the story Rule 3: Focus on the Hands to express how the character is feeling

One of favourite hand closeups is from pride and prejudice where we see Darcys hand after helping Elizabeth into a carriage. Very simple and no dialogue but it conveys exactly how he is feeling. Amazing stuff, had no idea it traces back to Hitchcock 😊

Love the imperfect dolly movement in earlier movies.

Loved Alfred Hitchcock's work , his story lines and plots in film was impeccable 👌 👏 👍

rule 1: use a wide shot to show the space in setting rule 2: move in on character to reveal the blackface

Pure cinema is timeless. Wonderful video for future generations of film makers and story tellers.

This is a really underated channel

A very good analysis ... Hitchcock would feel proud watching this video if he'd been alive ...

Loved the video, it’s like an online class but actually good, really useful!!!

Great video thanks...He was a master. I actually met the lady who was originally his script girl in the UK ...who left the UK with the family when he went to the USA and she was then his daughter's nanny later housekeeper before returning to the UK. She told me there was a knock on the door one day and she answered it. It was Cary Grant who said "Hi" to her and kissed her on the cheek. She told me she didn't wash for a week. I also saw and waved to Pat Hitchcock (his daughter) when she came to the UK and took her ex-nanny out to lunch. She always remembered her nanny. Pat was dressed in a red trouser suit and was with another lady and a man who drove the car. She (the nanny) had a photo of Hitch standing beside a bus...he was holding a sign that said "Hallo ...." But I have forgotten her name...darn it...anyone remember?

I've just found your channel. I hope these blow up because you are really good

As a big Hitchcock fan this video was just pure enjoyment! I subbed right after watching!

Hitchcock liked hands and Tarantino feet.

I hope you continue to make videos, this was great.

Great video, thanks 👍

All well and good for directors. The challenge is for screenwriters to craft a script that provides the director with the material to emulate the skills Hitchcock.

Fantastic, essay, sir! You have a new & grateful subscriber.

Thank you for this informative and very enjoyable work about a great filmmaker

Fantastic ! I’ve been reading Hitchcock/Truffaut lately and I thought it was really cool how you went over the Young and Innocent Finale

More more Hitch fantastic

great stuff, really well put together and very informative indeed - thanks!!!

Hitchcock's visual approach gave him the ability to tell a story that could reach the viewer in the most personal way, as if to touch an immensely private and personal feeling or memory that everyone has within themselves. This is done without any dialog at all. Here are just a few examples: In "Spellbound," there is a scene with "Dr. Constance Petersen" (Ingrid Bergman) going up the stairs to her room where she looks at the light coming out from under the closed door of the room of "Dr. Anthony Edwardes" (Gregory Peck,) with whom she has fallen in love. In "Vertigo," there is a scene where "Scottie" (James Stewart) just loiters outside Ernie's Restaurant, inconsolable over the loss of "Madeline" (Kim Novak,) with whom he had fallen in love. In his 1956 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much," there is a scene in the embassy where "Doctor McKenna" (James Stewart) finds his son "Hank" (Christopher Olsen) hidden in an upstairs room. As he reaches to grab him, "Edward Drayton" (Bernard Miles) comes up behind him with a gun and tells him to stop, evoking an intense expression of frustration. As for using establishing shots and then closing in to tell a story, one of my favorite examples that I use to discuss this technique is from the premiere episode of television's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" called "Revenge" (directed by Hitchcock himself) with Ralph Meeker and Vera Miles. In the first 65 seconds, without any dialog at all, we are already made aware of these things: The location is a seaside residential trailer park in California, the story begins in one of the trailers there, people are just getting up for the day, the principals in the story are a young happily-married couple from Connecticut, their trailer is neat and orderly and the husband is gets up at 6 AM. I have never seen any other director be able to tell a visual story with such aplomb.

Hello. This is such a fine look at Hitchcock’s technique that the single error I find puzzles me terribly, because it’s very clear that the hand carrying the coffee cup in Notorious is no prop. Did I misunderstand you? Thanks!

Another great video! 👍

I agree with Hitchcock, the power of cinema is in visual storytelling......that’s why I write stuff like that

Excellent video. Very interesting and informative

This was such a great video!!!! Thank you for making it.

Thank you for this very good video.

In that era, a few directors evolved from silent movies to talkies era

Wow, great analysis!

Very informative, thanks

This is Wonderful. Thank you.

amazing video

Thank you so much

Keep making videos, my friend!

Great....Thanks.

Thank you so much!!!

Good content. Keep going. Subbed

Hitchcock is closest there comes to one of my models as a filmmaker.

Without dialogue, how do you follow the plot?! I'm a matriarch, I've been around for a while. This show was absolutely one of my favorites. You follow the plot through the music, the sound, the visual. It all comes together in your head.💞

Thanks, this is a great video, --but, at 5:25 that was in fact, the real hand of the actress, with her fingers opening up, to deftly lift the saucer and cup, then open again, to release it at the other table. Her arm and hand are in proper proportion to the rest of her body, which is obvious when the scene is viewed in it's entirety. It's clearly hers. There's no need for an enlarged prop for that scene. --You were right about the large prop phone and finger used to to dial the M for murder. The reason Hitchcock had them made up that way was because the 3-D camera he used to shoot the movie wasn't capable of focusing on a close-up object. He needed a giant prop phone and finger made, in order to get what appeared to be a close up, frame filling shot.

I like the quote from him at the beginning of the video, but I can't understand everything. What does he say and where did he say it?

Really liked the video, but what's the film at 9:40 straight after Psycho?

What is the movie shot from the minute 10:21 please

hitchcock has been the author of his movies. how does a screenwriter initiate visual storytelling if the book should contain just dialogue?

How did you make this video?

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Actually I've always felt this way about music. A good rock band should play as if they're performing for an audience of deaf people, because the magic of live music is in the visual, or we'd just go home and put the record on.

How did you analyze these film? All from observation or from readings?

Is that hand from Notorious really an oversized prop? Seems proportional to me. I think it's an old woman's hand.

Do it for Bergman

good video the black face caught me a little off guard

What is the filme 10:47 seemed like an old history movie, what is the name of that movie?!

I wonder if the sloppy sliding of the tennis player's feet indicates he's not only going to be a clever tennis player but a slippery but good character...

00:00-00:27 What's the name of those movies? I want to use them in my assignment.

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I always thought Cary Grant was in North by Northwest

North by Northwest

what film is :25

7:42, what movie is it?

When you see one video and subscribe on the spot

We need those "unoriginal shots". You know I would love so much to see those "unoriginal shots with the creepy characters" the problem is no one has the skill or sensibility to do them anymore. I don't know why but in today's cinema those "unoriginal shot" have completely disappeared. Most of the movies nowdays are so frustrating and boring, but not because the story is boring. The issue is directors tend to use words to supplement their inability of making a visual story. That's the problem I think...

My Dialogue sucks so I decided..

why we gotta do national treasure dirty like that

The dance band... was that blackface?

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He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if you had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way. Christ says in John 16:33: I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.] - (AMPLIFIED version) NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER. Regardless of what you've done or what you're going through you CAN make it through Jesus. 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We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us back into that previously perfect image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. He will help us through the struggle, the stress, and anything we experience in the world. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him through His power (not ourselves, we need Him to help us as it's impossible without depending on His power and instruction). He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if you had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. 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Did I just saw black face

Hitchcock made some of my favorite movies. But that *hands* scene from Marnie might be the worst scene of any movie I’ve watched.

that fwequently lispy stowie about fwaming a murdewa

Hitchcock found the actual shooting of movies annoying. It was the pre-production where he thought the creative content should be 90% locked down, with script editing and a storyboard that gave the crew, especially the camera crew, precise shot directions. I was a storyboard artist in the 80s and 90s. Directors often asked me for visual ideas, suggested by the script. Hitchcock didn't like improvising on set, and for good reason. A movie director, to him, was someone who stays to an actor, "Walk to camera and look scared." It was the actor's job to internalise those minimal instructions and make the shot look convincing. He said once... "Actors are cattle."

I think your first rule is a misinterpretation. What is the first shot of Vertigo? A closeup of a hand grabbing a metal bar.

This really needs a trigger warning for black face.