MISE EN SCENE
The arrangements of all the elements, whether it’s the actor, the lighting, decoration, props or anything which has to come in the frame and which is shown in the frame is known as mise en scene, a French word meaning placing on stage. One of the scenes, which represent mise en scene in a good manner, is the last scene of The 39 Steps, As Robert, Carroll, and the police gather backstage around the dying Mr. Memory, on-stage behind them visible from the stage wing we see performance being done for the Palladium audience is a chorus-line of girls high-kicking to the tune of Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle from the film Evergreen (1934). After Mr. Memory confirms the espionage plot, the camera angle changes slightly and Robert and Carroll …show more content…
Since then the use of sound, music effects, Hitchcock has used background score a lot. He has sometime asked his musicians to compose a news song for his film, for example being, Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" that had been inspired by the movie The Barefoot Contessa (1954). The scene in this same movie where the assassination is to be taken place is also based on a symphony. The musical direction “poco a poco crescendo” correlates exactly with the acceleration and slow building of the scene, and at the time the shooting occurs, the climax of the scene and that of the symphony collide physically and metaphorically with the crash of the cymbals. The secret tune in The Lady Vanishes is also an example.
In Vertigo, the opening sequence is started by a music piece, which is very appropriate for the complete film. It gives the audience the taste for how Hitchcock will be using louder and a different tone of note to create suspense in the film. A good example for this could ne when John is catching trying to catch Madeline the music builds up, soon when he cant find her in the church he the music is lowered down. Again when he sees her starting to climb up the stairs. The music intensifies, and whenever he looks down the stairs, the zoom in and zoom outs take place and the music there is almost like a …show more content…
The most famous montage of Sir Hitchcock is that of the shower scene from the film Psycho (1960). The montage does not show the violent scenes of the murder-taking place, but it still somehow creates the feeling of thrill Another scene in Psycho were editing is superb, is when Marion is driving on the highway, running away from the action she had done in the city, the downpour of rain splashing against the windshield, along with the score, and intermittent cut backs to Marion's face trying to make through the rain helps to build the suspense in that moment. , Editing has helped in establishing the mood and feeling if suspense in the film. Where as editing was widely used in Psycho, it was hardly use in Rope (1948), to spare the use of editing long shots were taken in this film, in total there are 10 edits in a movie of 80 minutes. He hides the cuts by zooming on the camera to the back of furniture or to the man’s jacket blocking the camera. He also used crisscross editing or parallel editing. This is very well done in the movie Strangers on a train, where we see Guy playing his match while Bruno is on his way to the park to place the only evidence, which could show Guy as guilty. Other editing techniques included dissolve; an example could be that of the montage of wheels, wires and the railroad tracks,
The arrangements of all the elements, whether it’s the actor, the lighting, decoration, props or anything which has to come in the frame and which is shown in the frame is known as mise en scene, a French word meaning placing on stage. One of the scenes, which represent mise en scene in a good manner, is the last scene of The 39 Steps, As Robert, Carroll, and the police gather backstage around the dying Mr. Memory, on-stage behind them visible from the stage wing we see performance being done for the Palladium audience is a chorus-line of girls high-kicking to the tune of Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle from the film Evergreen (1934). After Mr. Memory confirms the espionage plot, the camera angle changes slightly and Robert and Carroll …show more content…
Since then the use of sound, music effects, Hitchcock has used background score a lot. He has sometime asked his musicians to compose a news song for his film, for example being, Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" that had been inspired by the movie The Barefoot Contessa (1954). The scene in this same movie where the assassination is to be taken place is also based on a symphony. The musical direction “poco a poco crescendo” correlates exactly with the acceleration and slow building of the scene, and at the time the shooting occurs, the climax of the scene and that of the symphony collide physically and metaphorically with the crash of the cymbals. The secret tune in The Lady Vanishes is also an example.
In Vertigo, the opening sequence is started by a music piece, which is very appropriate for the complete film. It gives the audience the taste for how Hitchcock will be using louder and a different tone of note to create suspense in the film. A good example for this could ne when John is catching trying to catch Madeline the music builds up, soon when he cant find her in the church he the music is lowered down. Again when he sees her starting to climb up the stairs. The music intensifies, and whenever he looks down the stairs, the zoom in and zoom outs take place and the music there is almost like a …show more content…
The most famous montage of Sir Hitchcock is that of the shower scene from the film Psycho (1960). The montage does not show the violent scenes of the murder-taking place, but it still somehow creates the feeling of thrill Another scene in Psycho were editing is superb, is when Marion is driving on the highway, running away from the action she had done in the city, the downpour of rain splashing against the windshield, along with the score, and intermittent cut backs to Marion's face trying to make through the rain helps to build the suspense in that moment. , Editing has helped in establishing the mood and feeling if suspense in the film. Where as editing was widely used in Psycho, it was hardly use in Rope (1948), to spare the use of editing long shots were taken in this film, in total there are 10 edits in a movie of 80 minutes. He hides the cuts by zooming on the camera to the back of furniture or to the man’s jacket blocking the camera. He also used crisscross editing or parallel editing. This is very well done in the movie Strangers on a train, where we see Guy playing his match while Bruno is on his way to the park to place the only evidence, which could show Guy as guilty. Other editing techniques included dissolve; an example could be that of the montage of wheels, wires and the railroad tracks,