Bernard Herrmann

knowledge is the 1960’s “Psycho” which many may consider it a “Master of Suspense” having the crowed on the edge of their seats waiting for the next twist in the film. This movie classic also had one of the most suspenseful soundtracks ever made by Bernard Herrmann. The 30’s through the 60’s was the rise and very well beginning of what is known as the Horror…

It centres on her murder and the attempts of others to identify her attacker. Professor John Butt’s seminar deals with the work of director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann to bring the thriller Psycho to life. Hitchcock primarily wanted all scenes set in the motel, including the famous shower scene to run without music but decided against this once hearing Herrmann’s compositions. Unusually, the instrumentation…

The relationship between the audience and director is one of the most important in the film business. This essay makes reference to the director Alfred Hitchcock, and his ability to shift his filmmaking process between his films Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960), with specific emphasis on themes, mise en scene and sound, to meet the demands of his audience. By applying the lens of Lehman and Luhr’s article on auteurship in film, “Authorship: The Searchers and Jungle Fever”, this essay will…

The instruments present all belong to the String family; Cello, Violin, Viola and the Double Bass are all present in the Scene. This creates a very peculiar sound, no Brass instruments to create the usual ‘Noise’ affiliated with action and no Woodwind to soften the sound and calm things down. The sound is very rough, the high, screeching Violins create excitement as the action becomes more frenzied, so do the Violins. Each knife blow is accompanied by ‘screams’ by the high violins. This goes on…

This is Alfred Hitchcock most accomplished movie, his true masterpiece. He was so confident about the outcome of this movie that he produces the project. He believes in the story and the work he did from the begging. It became one of the most emblematic movies of his career and when the movie was released he was making his best movies. In a spur of the moment decision, Marion Crane decides to leave Phoenix with the $40,000 her boss entrusted to her to deposit at the bank. She's headed to her…

Introductory Material Imagine being so famous for writing film scores that TV shows begin to use you as satire and good play. This is the case for John Williams, arguably one of the most famous composers living today. He was composed over a hundred movies and seems as though he is not stopping. He also has worked in many other outputs such as the Boston Pops Orchestra for some time. John Williams has written the film scores for all of the Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones, Fiddler on the Roof, and…

Citizen Kane is perhaps known around the world (and especially in the United States) as one the greatest American films ever made, and created by one of America’s greatest film directors that ever lived, his bold style and unconventional techniques made him a maverick, a genius, and rebel in the entertainment industry, and like the character portrayed in the film, director Orson Welles also had his rise and fall to fame. The film begins among the desolate landscape and remains of Xanadu…

In all its guises, design’s intention is to portray... to represent something for a viewer to decode, to connect a signifier to a signified. For this subject’s major project, I chose to pursue the visual medium of film posters. Inspired by my font, Curved’s design — which has a certain space-age, 1960s feel to it — I looked at creating film posters for, initially a 1969 “Doctor Who” story The Seeds of Death then, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The latter, being a seminal piece…

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