Friday, 26 April 2013

Jonathan Ross on Alfred Hitchcock: His British Roots





Jonathan Ross
By the age of 28, Hitchcock was firmly in the driving seat as a director

It was as if Hitchcock used the British film industury as his own personal film school. The 10 silent films he made over the next 10 years allowed him to develop and refine his technique, the technique he would eventually take to Hollywood.

In Hitchcock’s hands the camera gained a new life, it’s movement and it’s ever changing perspective bought a whole new way of seeing things to his films. He exposes audiences to the full potential of the new mediam

To Hitch cinema was always so much more then just a way to record theatre.


Matthew Sweet – Film expert
Hitchcock absorbed a lot of influences from European cinema, particularly Russian and German cinema, he went to Berlin and he immersed himself in those expressionist techniques.



Nathalie Morris – Film expert
He lived, breathed and slept cinema. He thought cinematically. He was very keen to always insert all these incredible Hitchcock touches into his films, these very clever visual tricks.


Hitchcock
“The language of the camera, is the same as the language of the writer”


Jonathan Ross
He called it pure cinema, unleashing the cameras full potential to tell the story and manipulate the audiences emotions.



Things about Hitchcocks work, style and talent.

Number of sequences and camera movements and how inventive he was.
One of the most entertaining film makers ever
The subjectivity -  amazing at subjective camera work, and his idea of pure cinema, was essentially you show someone something, they watch it, you see their reaction.

His the best director to learn from in terms of how to make films. He is a master class in the grammar of film making.


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