Movement

• Camera Moves
– Pans
– Tilts
– Crane Shots
– Dolly Shots
– Zooms
– Hand-Held Shots
– Aerial Shots

Hero
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– Kinetic Symbolism
– Certain moves
connote meaning

The Return of the King

Vertigo
 Movement
• Pans
– to keep the subject within
frame--if a person moves
from one position to
another, the camera
moves horizontally to
keep the person in the
center of the
composition--these shots
emphasize the unity of
space and the
connectedness of people
and objects within that
space

Following & Reframing  

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• Tilts
– these are vertical
movements of the camera
around a stationary
horizontal axis; they can be
used to keep subjects
within the frame, so they
emphasize spatial and
psychological
interrelationships
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– Crane Shots
– Jibs
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• Dolly Shots
– does not change the
focal length of lens
– The subject and the
perspective change
and objects pass by
the frame giving the
feeing of moving
through space
– Creates sense of
movement
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• Dolly Shots
Dolly Track

Extreme Dolly in Rope

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• Dolly Shots
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• Zooms
– Zooming in and out changes
the focal length
– The Viewer is brought closer
without changing perspective
– The entire image is magnified
equally. This flattens the
space and calls attention to
:
the act of filming. Used to pick
.
out a piece of detail in subject
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• Zooms and more...
• The Dolly Zoom
– It’s CRAZY!

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• Hand-Held Shots

The Blair Witch Project

Jaws
 Movement
• Steadicam

The Shining
 Movement
• Aerial Shots

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

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• Animation
• Slow Motion
• Fast Motion
• Reverse Motion
• Freeze Frame
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• Animation
– each frame is
photographed separately
rather than continuously,
and it usually involves the
photographing of subjects
that do not move by
themselves

Wallace & Gromit:

The Curse of the Wear Rabbit

Snow White
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• Slow Motion
– this effect is created by
photographing events at a
faster rate than twenty-four
fps, then projecting the film
at a normal rate of speed  

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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• Reverse Motion
– this effect is created by
photographing an action
with the film running
reversed

Superman
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• Freeze Frame
– this effect suspends all
movement on screen; a
single image is selected
and reprinted for as many
frames as is necessary to
suggest the halting of
motion

The 400 Blows

 Movement
• Formalism/Realism
– Defined by the frame not
the stage
– Setups redefine the “stage”

Winter’s Bone, The Manchurian Candidate & Bullitt

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• Right to left
– Movement in this direction
seems inexplicably tense
and uncomfortable

Traffic
 Movement
• Left to right
– Movement in this direction
seems psychologically
natural because the eye
tends to read a picture this
way

Midnight Cowboy
 Movement
• Away from camera
– Movement in this direction
seems to decrease
intensity and make the
character seem remote

The Third Man

 Movement
• Toward the camera
– Movement in this direction
may seem threatening if
the character is a villain but
friendly if the character is
attractive

Goodfellas & Collateral

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• Angles
– Low & close - speed
up action
– Long & high:
movement seems
slower

Raging Bull
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• Framing
– Tight vs. Long &
Medium

Joan of Arc

Bullitt
Eyes Wide Shut
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• North by Northwest
• 1959
• Dir. By Alfred Hitchcock
• With Cary Grant, James
Mason, Eva Marie Saint,
James Mason & Martin
Landau
• "I am but mad north-north-
west: when the wind is
southerly, I know a hawk
from a handsaw."
Hamlet
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• Cary Grant, 1904-1986
– Born Archibald Leach, an English acrobat, became the
definition of suave, handsome and debonair
– Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to
be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would
I."
– At ease with comedy, he starred in many in the 1930’s
– Was top male star for several decades
– Hitchcock said he was the only actor he ever loved
– Retired from film in the 1960’s
– Married 5 times, the last to a women 47 years his junior
– Found “peace” through LSD
– Films include: Blonde Venus, She Done Him Wrong,
Holiday, Gunga Din, His Girl Friday, Suspicion,
Notorious, The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife, North By
Northwest, Charade, To Catch a Thief , Bringing Up
Baby
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• Eva Marie Saint, 1924-

– Oscar for On the Waterfront
– Hollywood never quite knew
what to do with her and she
elected to spend time with
her family & turned to
television in the 1970’s
– Hitchcock used her best in
North by Northwest putting
a tough character under her
seeming vulnerability
– Still around if you sat
through Superman Returns
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• James Mason, 1909-1984
– Successful on screen in England and the
US – suave personified
– Essentially a character actor who also
played the leading man
– Did not sign a contract becoming the rare
free-agent in studio-dominated Hollywood
– 3 Oscar nominations, no wins
– "They don't mean anything unless you win
one; then your salary goes up."
• Martin Landau, 1928-
– Studied at the Actor’s Studio w/James Dean
– North by Northwest is his second film
– Really became famous for TV’s Mission
Impossible
– Did not get the part of Mr. Spock in the
original Star Trek
– Oscar for Ed Wood
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– Collaborated with wife of over
50 years, Alma
• "I beg permission to mention
by name only four people who
have given me the most
affection, appreciation, and
encouragement, and constant
collaboration. The first of the
four is a film editor, the
second is a scriptwriter, the
third is the mother of my
daughter Pat, and the fourth
is as fine a cook as ever
performed miracles in a
domestic kitchen. And their
names are Alma Reville."
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– Started as a title designer at
Paramount in London & worked his
way up to director with The Pleasure
Garden (1925) & The Lodger (1926)
– After many successes in England,
he was enticed to the U.S. by David
O. Selznick
– First film here was Rebecca in 1940
(Best Picture Oscar)
– Retired after Family Plot in 1976
– Never won a Best Director Oscar
– Said actors were “cattle” – hated
“Method” actors although he guided
many actors to some of their finest
performances

Hitchcock’s cameo in North by Northwest

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– Storyboards
• Hitchcock used them all the time
so he could edit in camera so no
one else could re-cut the film in
any other way than what he
envisioned as there would be no
alternate takes
• Supposedly said it was his favorite
part of filmmaking – this has
recently been challenged by new
research
• Often shot in chronological order
making his films expensive and
over schedule

Artist’s rendering of Hitchcock original and an original