Editing Techniques Used In Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

‘Rear Window’ is a 1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock. It is full of symbolism, narratives, and characterization. In this movie, Hitchcock creates suspense in the next coming shot and the characters looking toward the perspective point of view. He used specific signature motifs such as character parallels between the main character and all other characters in the building. The film focuses around the main protagonist Jefferies, a photographer who recently broke his leg and is restricted to a wheelchair. His vision is limited in his position, and so he watches his neighbor in the building across from him. Suspense is created in this movie when Jefferies realizes that Thorwald murdered his wife. After that moment, the audience, along with the characters follows the movie in order to witness what might happen next. …show more content…
Parallel editing and point-of-view techniques presented two sides of related action when Jefferies was in a wheelchair observing "Miss Torso," a dancer with exiting clothes, a sculptor with passion and condition to get work done, a songwriter who played songs in the right moment of sequence and makes Jefferies aware of the perspective, and Mr. Lars, the murder of his wife who seems to be hiding something. The shots in this move have a pattern which follow Jefferies' alternating problem, his actions, and so on, but the characters are looking at the front of frames. What we see in 'Rear Window' is perfect editing techniques that maintained the action from shot to shot from similar relationship between Jefferies and Lisa to different locations in the