Rear Window Film Analysis and Audio Study
Summary of the film taken from: http://dramatica.com/analysis/rear-window
“A news photographer, confined to a wheelchair by a broken leg, gazes idly at the behavior of the neighbors across the courtyard of his Greenwich Village apartment. His observations lead him to suspect that one of the neighbors has murdered his wife, but he is unable to convince his fiancée and his detective friend that he is right. Eventually, when the fiancée discovers incriminating evidence confirming his suspicions, the killer discovers he is being watched and tries to kill the photographer. The snooper is saved in the nick of time, though his second leg is broken in the course of the rescue operation.”
(Truffaut, p. 214.)
Analyzing how this panning scene answers some of the plot questions:
How is Hitchcock telling the story of the movie in just one long panning shot? (pay attention to sound and the visual information): In one panning shot it shows you whats going on without using separate shots to show whats going on. In the beginning of the film it shows one after another the apartments and its all taken in that one shot to make it easier for the audience to tell whats going on. The audience sees threw Jeff's view of the neighbors so it actually makes sense to have it as a panning scene because its him looking across to see what the neighbors are up to, and its like its from his point of view.
Analysis of the movie: The movie overall has some creative aspects to it it uses cool sound effects like in the end of the film with all the voices made to sound like there far away and how its mostly all panning shot and one after another it goes to all of the apartments around him. Overall the movie mostly consisted of one big panning shot over and over again and it shows all in one shot the view of whats happening around him.
What I like about the clip: The clip gives a play by play on whats happening in the scene and showing us the analysis of the beginning and the ending of the film. It shows and gives a detailed summary about whats happening in the clip.
(Truffaut, p. 214.)
Analyzing how this panning scene answers some of the plot questions:
How is Hitchcock telling the story of the movie in just one long panning shot? (pay attention to sound and the visual information): In one panning shot it shows you whats going on without using separate shots to show whats going on. In the beginning of the film it shows one after another the apartments and its all taken in that one shot to make it easier for the audience to tell whats going on. The audience sees threw Jeff's view of the neighbors so it actually makes sense to have it as a panning scene because its him looking across to see what the neighbors are up to, and its like its from his point of view.
Analysis of the movie: The movie overall has some creative aspects to it it uses cool sound effects like in the end of the film with all the voices made to sound like there far away and how its mostly all panning shot and one after another it goes to all of the apartments around him. Overall the movie mostly consisted of one big panning shot over and over again and it shows all in one shot the view of whats happening around him.
What I like about the clip: The clip gives a play by play on whats happening in the scene and showing us the analysis of the beginning and the ending of the film. It shows and gives a detailed summary about whats happening in the clip.
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