3) How is Hitchcock an auteur

Hitchcock is an auteur as he uses common threads and themes throughout all of his movies which are recognizable to his audience. For example his distinct use of camera shots; very high angle shots - e.g; Norman carrying his mother downstairs and Normans mother stabbing arbogast. Exaggerated POV shots - e.g; Marions first glimpse of the traffic cop and Lilas long walk up to the house. Single take shots - e.g; the camera gliding across the cityscape to fly right through the hotel window and the camera moving away from Marions body in the bathroom, across the bedroom, past the money in the newspaper and to the open window. Through his creative use of sound - insistent and urgent non-diegetic music, the exaggerated lighting effects, very precise editing to create tension and suprise, the introduction of false leads and misleading information - used to create nerves and get the audiences physcological mind working, trapped/imprisioned characters, misleading relationships, false identities and personal  cameo appearance of Hitchcock himself.

All of these aspects of Hitchcocks work makes him an auteur,through his creativity of making his audience a voyeur he creates the audience to be both subjective and objective paricipants within the action to empathise with the characters, the use of mirrors to create the double identity theme also used to play on the characters emotions, for example when Lila scares herself with her own reflection. The double identity theme is significant in Hitchcocks work as he uses it through the narcissistic voyeurism that we love looking at ourselves Hitchocock develops the into us loving looking at other people.

We can use Hitchcoks auteur theory in our production as we can use his innovative camera shots and angles to make it an effective opening and try to make the audience be subjective and objective within our own thriller opening.

Natasha