Hitchcock Summary

STEP 1: It's the Mind of the Audience
                    This is based on the fact that the atmosphere needs to be set for the audience in order to make sure that they feel the full effect beign portrayed by the characters within the film. 


STEP 2: Frame for Emotion
                     This involves making sure that the right camera shots/angles are used in order to show the emotion of each character within an important scene. By doing this, this means that the audience is able to become emotionally invovled with the piece of film they are being shown.


STEP 3: Camera is Not a Camera 
                This means that making sure the audience can see what is going on through the eyes and the experience of each character within the audio/visual sequence.


STEP 4: Dialogue Means Nothing 
              This step means having the ability to tell a story without the characters actually saying anything. By doing this the audience is able to create the story in their minds and this creates the possibility of being thrown off the story to be shocked later on.


STEP 5: Point of View Editing
              This means putting an idea into the mind of the character without explaining it in dialogue is done by using a point-of-view shot sequence.You take the eyes of the characters and add something for them to look at. 


STEP 6: Montage Gives You Control
              This step means being able to create and build up the suspense of a story by putting together close-ups of different parts within the audio/visual product in order to create a more dramatic effect for the audience.


STEP 7: Keep the Story Simple!
              This basic step means being able to both create a strong story whilst also being able to control the story/idea in making sure that the storyline is both not too confusing but isn't also too boring for the audience.


STEP 8: Characters Must Break Cliché 
                     This means having the ability to make the audience become intreged by the audio/visual product by creating new stereotypical characteristics of the characters within the film. This includes such things as making criminals wealthy upper class citizens whom you’d never suspect etc.


STEP 9: Use Humor to Add Tension
              This step insists that by adding a sense of humor to a thriller means being able to create a different type of unexpected tension within the film. For example, "In Marnie, Tippi Hedren is stealing money from an office safe and is just about to leave when she notices the maid happens to be cleaning in the next room".


STEP 10: Two Things Happening at Once 
                 This involves building tension into a scene by using contrasting situations throughout the video sequence in order to create a more interesting storyline for the viewing audience. 


STEP 11: Suspense is Information 
                This means enabling the characters to create suspense by showing the audience a scene which presents a suspensive story and enabling the audience to create an idea of the ending of the film. Although whilst doing this the characters need to carry on as if they don't know about the suspense scenes that have occured whilst they've been off stage.  “The essential fact is to get real suspense you must let the audience have information." --Alfred Hitchcock


STEP 12: Surprise and Twist 
                This element means being able to create a storyline for the audience to follow but then turn their ideas upside down in order to create a dramatic effect in order to make sure that the audience is surprised by the storyline they're now being shown.

STEP 13: Warning: May Cause MacGuffin
                The purpose of MacGuffin is to serve a pivotal reason for the suspense to occur.This means making sure that the storyline makes sense to the audience in order to create the best possible dramatic effects.