Being able to do effective storyboards is an invaluable skill as a film director.

Wow. A damn good visual artist. His drawings are compelling.

Such a valuable channel....Underrated

Bill Krohn is a meticulous and reliable researcher and historian whose book Hitchcock at Work I can scarcely recommend too highly. In speaking from memory here he does make one tiny error worth noting, however. When Melanie is struck by the gull in The Birds she does not see it coming, but we do. Hitchcock cuts from her mock expression of innocence while looking at Mitch to our - the audience’s - privileged flash of the approaching animal (then to it striking her, and from that to another flash of it flying away). As Krohn says, Hitchcock does point out that these cuts are necessary so that the audience is absolutely clear about what’s happening, rather than mistaking the bird for a bit of paper (for instance). This example of slowing time down (not in the sense of slow motion photography, but of breaking a very brief moment into separate parts so that each registers clearly in the mind of the viewer) is very important to Hitchcock, important enough to make him interrupt the subjective treatment of his two lead characters. In Hitchcock’s cinema nothing outweighs the vital importance of accommodating our understanding.

@jeff__w

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Very insightful comment! Thanks!

@GrantTarredus

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@@jeff__w Thank you, Jeff! You’re very kind.

@hopsiepike

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I think he called it the god’s point of view, as in the scene with the attack at the gas station, when the point of view suddenly pulls back to an aerial shot looking down at the burning wreckage as more birds amass and descend to continue the attack.

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Thank you for this channel. It’s so insightful!

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Appreciating the hell out of this content, thank you 🙏

Thank you very much for posting these. Would it be possible to include the original air date of the video in the description?

Espectacular análisis !!!! SAludos desde México

Interesting that the camera hold instruction at 12:13 is measured in feet, rather than frames or seconds. Great channel btw!

@aa_gg

3 жыл бұрын

In old days there were no digital cameras, there was use of celluloid film, which is a long film hence we usually measure in feet because its very long.... Fun Fact : Chris Nolan and many other filmmakers still use film over digital due to its awesome look and its feel ...

Damn, feel like I just graduated from film school.

I read that Hitchcock, in those pre-video assist days, NEVER looked through the viewfinder. Imagine that these days when monitors proliferate on set and attached to the camera.

@mikeatwork7744

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, very normal, even as late as the late 90s.

@hopsiepike

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Yup, decades of experience. All he needed to know is which lens was on the camera, and he knew what would be in frame.