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Vertigo (1958)Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock - Biography● Born in 1899 in London● Began working on Silent Films in the early 1920’s.● Transitioned to sound films in the late 1920s.● Moved to the United States in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955● Peak years were 1954-1964
○ Vertigo (1958)○ North by Northwest (1959)○ Psycho (1960)○ The Birds (1963)
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Film Noir - What is it?○ Translated as “Black Film”○ Moods: pessimism, fatalism, menace○ Themes: Fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair, and paranoia○ Not technically a genre, it’s more of a mood or a style○ Visually marked by expressionistic lighting, deep-focus or depth of field, disorienting
visual schemes, jarring editing, ominous shadows, skewed camera angles (usually vertical or diagonal rather than horizontal), unbalanced or moody compositions
○ Setting: ■ Interior: low-key (or single-source) lighting, venetian-blinded windows and rooms,
dark, claustrophobic gloomy appearances■ Exterior: urban night scenes, deep shadows, wet asphalt, dark alleyways,
rain-slicked or mean street, low-key lighting○ Two types of women:
■ Dutiful, reliable, trustworthy, and loving■ Femmes Fatale: mysterious, duplicitous, double-crossing, gorgeous, unloving,
predatory
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Film Noir - Images
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Background on Vertigo (1958)● Considered a film noir● Shot in San Francisco (where film
takes place) and Paramount Studios in Hollywood
● First film to use the dolly-zoom○ Lens zooms while the camera moves
in and out. ○ Depending on which way the camera
moves, the foreground OR the background changes (one of them stays the same throughout the movement)
○ Purpose is to create a distorting effect
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Watch VertigoAn ex-police officer who suffers from an intense fear of heights is hired to prevent an old friend's wife from committing suicide, but all is not as it seems.
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Analyze Vertigo1. What elements of film noir are present in Vertigo? What do they add to the
story?2. What elements of cinematography (framing, angles, movement, lighting)
did you notice? What was the element’s significance?
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Some Important Moments in Vertigo
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Extreme Close Ups
What effect does this extreme close up give during the opening credits?
Why is this effect important?
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PanningPanning during the chase scene does two things:
1. Establishes San Francisco as the setting
2. Lets us know Scottie’s background as a cop and sets up his problem of acrophobia.
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Eye-line match
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Some important moments in Vertigo
What type of shot is this?
What effect does the the combination of the shot type and the lighting create?
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More Panning
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Match-Cut (editing technique)
Zoom in on Judy’s necklace Zoom out of Carlotta’s necklace