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Analyse the short openings of two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window and Psycho.
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Media essay - Analyses of film openings. In this essay I am going to analyse the short openings of two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window and Psycho. Rear Window The opening of Rear window begins with the camera moving through an apartment window, it surveys the local area from the same position, almost as if someone is looking out of their window, this by use of subjective camera. I can see that the area is an enclosed courtyard in the middle of a major city (possibly New York) people are visible waking up outside of their houses on their balconies because of the severe heat wave. A middle aged man who from the apparatus inside his apartment appears to be a musician, a dancer performing various stretches and children playing in the street. By being introduced to these different characters I can see how the audience is in a privileged position....
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