how do you do my name is Sven and I
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would like to tell you about my
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forthcoming video it’s about Alfred
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Hitchcock and his lifelong relationship
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with the audience in this video I hope
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to make you all aware of three of his
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most noble filmmaking techniques and
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through it all you can play a most
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conspicuous part because not only can
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you appreciate is art but you can also
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apply
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what is this
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rear window is my favorite Hitchcock
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film as a matter of fact it’s one of my
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top three films of all time and all
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filmmakers it’s a perfectly contained
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story taking place all in one location
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and demonstrating what constitutes as he
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called pure cinema look at the opening
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shot of rear window this is visual
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storytelling not a single word has been
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spoken it tells us everything we need to
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know about where we are who our hero is
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why he is in this particular situation
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because Hitchcock treats the camera as
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if it was the viewers eyes it engages us
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to use our curiosity to figure out
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ourselves what the story might be
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Hitchcock always prefers visual
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storytelling over dialogue partly
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because he directed nearly a dozen
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silent films he never fully accepted
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synchronized sound cinema to me they’re
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what I call photographs of people
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talking there’s no relation to the
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Artemis in a mom for him dialogue is
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just another sound among all others so
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he treats it just as that Jeffrey’s my
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sister for what he said I was getting
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rid of it that’s not to say that
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Hitchcock films have no dialogue quite
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the opposite
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but the important information and
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subtext is still given to us through
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visual and you don’t pull me out of this
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swamp of boredom I’m gonna do something
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drastic like what like what I’m gonna
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get married then I’ll never be able to
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go anywhere
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you probably already know the difference
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between shock and suspense the suspense
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story is given the audience full
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information before you start tell the
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audience that then they will scream out
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and say get out lid get out earlier it
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cooks suggesting that the audience know
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more than the character so that they can
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worry about the outcome that is suspense
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you keep the audience on the edge of
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their seats while surprise or shock
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comes and goes
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the audience will get five seconds of
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shock instead of the quickly dissipating
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rush of shock emotional involvement of
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the audience through suspense can be
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stretched for minutes or more suspense
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is probably the most important technique
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Hitchcock uses to his career unlike many
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other films who turn the audience into
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an objective spectator a Hitchcock film
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entices you to not just watch but to
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actively figure out the story in fear
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for the character you’re making time
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tonight reader what’s the big rush I
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want to get to bed that’s a big rush
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so you’ve pushed your lead character to
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the brink of failure and you know and
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then someone else will then and save the
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day just because they haven’t assembled
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on the sea according to Hitchcock
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that is terrible filmmaking characters
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should win or lose meaning achieve their
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goals because of the choices they made
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that are grounded on the experience and
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the courage to overcome their fear so
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Hitchcock made it very clear as a rule
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for his films that can only ever be one
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coincidence often at the beginning of
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the film you have a date
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oh we are twelve vacancy twelve cabins
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two are vacancies they moved away the
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highway that sets things in motion that
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are already latent ly existing and then
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from that point forward the film
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resolves because of the hero and the
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obstacles she needs to faith cabin one
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it’s closer in case you want anything
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right next to the office tell your story
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visual think of your film is a silent
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film where you don’t have the luxury to
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have characters inform the audience use
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suspense for a long-lasting audience
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engagement give the audience more
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information than the character so that
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they can worry about the outcome don’t
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use more than one coincidental event in
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your film and let everything else be
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motivated by your characters action so
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these are my three favorite Hitchcock
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techniques I’m surprised how little
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they’re used today even though I think
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they can be pretty much applied to any
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song genre do let me know if there are
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some other Hitchcock techniques worth
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adding to the list I’ll see you in the
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next video thanks for watching
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