The document analyzes Alfred Hitchcock's use of facial expressions, titles, and shots in the trailers for his thriller/horror films Psycho, The Birds, and Rear Window. It discusses how close-ups of characters' worried, shocked, or suspicious facial expressions build tension and intrigue in viewers. It also examines how Hitchcock uses dramatic, unsettling titles and shots obscured by rain or darkness to pique audience interest without revealing too much. Specifically, it analyzes the chilling shower scene in Psycho, considered one of the best scenes in film history for its use of camera techniques and score to create tension without graphic violence.
Alfred hitchcock’s Psycho film trailer presentationJoePugh4848
My A Grade Powerpoint Presentation analysing the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho". So yes it kinda does what it says on the tin really... lovely.
Alfred hitchcock’s Psycho film trailer presentationJoePugh4848
My A Grade Powerpoint Presentation analysing the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho". So yes it kinda does what it says on the tin really... lovely.
Media course work on Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock .
Alfred Hitchcock's rear window is a film full of symbolism, narratives, voyeurism and characterisation. The film focuses around the Main protagonist Jefferies, who is a photographer who recently broke his leg and is restricted to a wheelchair. The main character Jeff spends his days and nights watching the neighbours through a pair of binoculars. The audience are shown life through Jefferies eyes within the six weeks of his recovery.
Rear Window (1954) made viewers voyeurs, then had them pay for their pleasure. In its story of a photographer who happens to witness a murder, Hitchcock provocatively probed the relationship between the watcher and the watched, involving, by extension, the viewer of the film.
Hitchcock uses the point of view shot in order to show what Jeffery was seeing , using this shot doe not only allow the audience to see what he is seeing but it allows There are two main purposes for his use of optical point-of view shots in Rear Window.
One has to do with the story itself. The point-of-view shots help to pull the audience into the film and to identify more with the characters, most notably the main character Jeff. The second reason is much more universal, having to do with the nature of film itself, and the essence of cinema.
In Rear Window, female exhibitionism and objectification occurs. This is evident with the character Lisa. Lisa’s moves and poses suggest not only that she is confident and comfortable being looked at but also that she invites being looked at.
Lisa becomes a partner in Jeff’s gazing/voyeurism and an active investigator – maybe because this might be a stratagem for marriage, like her failed seduction attempt with the dinner from 21 and the sexy negligee.
Lisa’s wardrobe is expensive, high fashion (couture), and different in every visit. She is portrayed as only caring about her looks and the latest fashion which is a way of sexual objectification of women.
The gaze exercises power but also carries risks; it exposes Jeff to being seen by the other. Watching others without being seen gives Jeff a sense and a position of power, but then it is threatened and lost when Thorwald sees him from his apartment.
stereotypes are being used as the gaze is a male activity and the female the object of gaze, however Hitchcock undermines these stereotypes throughout the plot.
Jeff becomes powerless and passive when Thorwald breaks inside his apartment.
When Thorwald enters Jeff’s apartment, his eyes are lighted but his face and body are dark.
The gaze is an important element in this movie and there’s significance to Jeff using flash bulbs to try to blind and incapacitate Thorwald as to make an equal sense of powerless, however he fails.
Media course work on Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock .
Alfred Hitchcock's rear window is a film full of symbolism, narratives, voyeurism and characterisation. The film focuses around the Main protagonist Jefferies, who is a photographer who recently broke his leg and is restricted to a wheelchair. The main character Jeff spends his days and nights watching the neighbours through a pair of binoculars. The audience are shown life through Jefferies eyes within the six weeks of his recovery.
Rear Window (1954) made viewers voyeurs, then had them pay for their pleasure. In its story of a photographer who happens to witness a murder, Hitchcock provocatively probed the relationship between the watcher and the watched, involving, by extension, the viewer of the film.
Hitchcock uses the point of view shot in order to show what Jeffery was seeing , using this shot doe not only allow the audience to see what he is seeing but it allows There are two main purposes for his use of optical point-of view shots in Rear Window.
One has to do with the story itself. The point-of-view shots help to pull the audience into the film and to identify more with the characters, most notably the main character Jeff. The second reason is much more universal, having to do with the nature of film itself, and the essence of cinema.
In Rear Window, female exhibitionism and objectification occurs. This is evident with the character Lisa. Lisa’s moves and poses suggest not only that she is confident and comfortable being looked at but also that she invites being looked at.
Lisa becomes a partner in Jeff’s gazing/voyeurism and an active investigator – maybe because this might be a stratagem for marriage, like her failed seduction attempt with the dinner from 21 and the sexy negligee.
Lisa’s wardrobe is expensive, high fashion (couture), and different in every visit. She is portrayed as only caring about her looks and the latest fashion which is a way of sexual objectification of women.
The gaze exercises power but also carries risks; it exposes Jeff to being seen by the other. Watching others without being seen gives Jeff a sense and a position of power, but then it is threatened and lost when Thorwald sees him from his apartment.
stereotypes are being used as the gaze is a male activity and the female the object of gaze, however Hitchcock undermines these stereotypes throughout the plot.
Jeff becomes powerless and passive when Thorwald breaks inside his apartment.
When Thorwald enters Jeff’s apartment, his eyes are lighted but his face and body are dark.
The gaze is an important element in this movie and there’s significance to Jeff using flash bulbs to try to blind and incapacitate Thorwald as to make an equal sense of powerless, however he fails.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2. FACIAL EXPRESSIONS From studying the trailers of three of Hitchcock’s thrillers ‘The Birds’ ‘Rear Window’ and ‘Psycho’, I have found that close-ups or mid-shots of facial expressions are used frequently and are extremely effective in creating suspense or shock. Here are a few I have screen-shot, this slide I have two of the famous ‘Hitchcock blondes’: Grace Kelly and Tippi Hendren. Grace Kelly’s expression in Rear Window is of concern and worry, the audience is probed to empathize with her concern. Tippi Hendren in The Birds expresses emotions of shock and fear, one again this can affect an empathetic audience.
3. In this shot, there is an obscured view of James Stewart’s character behind his magnifying camera lens, this adds mystery, whilst focusing on his skeptical eyebrows and narrowed, concentrated expression on the upper half of his face; This all intrigues Hitchcock’s audience, and pulls them in, inquisitive of what he is seeing through his lens that concerns him so deeply as we can see from this shot. An eye-line match is used from the previous shot via jump-cut to this shot of the main character’s suspicious neighbor he has been spying on. In the trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2157838617/ the soundtrack suddenly silences, rising the tension, as we see the neighbor has spotted Stewart’s character watching him, then instrumental suddenly bursts back in creating sudden shock in the audience.
4. Anthony Perkins is famous for his role as Norman Bates in Hitchcock’s most well-known thriller Psycho . I noticed that this film was in black and white – one of the reasons Alfred Hitchcock did this was because he thought it would be too gory in colour. But the main reason was that he wanted to make the film as inexpensively as possible. However, I think it adds more mystery and horror to the film itself. Anthony Perkins looks up to the camera with his intimidating smirk and almost deadly stare in the trailer, to the famous orchestral score in the film that grows in volume throughout the trailer. Vera Miles plays the stereotyped helpless female character in a horror/thriller genre. In this shot we see her facial expression of nervousness, the lighting used highlights her face and concerned emotions to the audience.
5. TITLES As my media group are making a film opening, we will need to consider title for our final piece. I like ‘Psycho’s title as it is very distressed looking – especially the lettering on the word PSYCHO which has negative connotations in itself - and uses a simple but bold palette of black, white and red; Red often is associated with blood and danger, suiting the genre perfectly. Overall this title is effective in showing their target audience exactly what this film entails. Saul Bass often designed these titles for Hitchcock.
6. Here are the titles from the trailers of ‘Rear Window’ and ‘The Birds’. He often uses elaborate title sequences for his time in his actual film openings, but has kept these simple and easy to digest for the audience in the case of a quick trailer. However he has still kept character in the titles by using a range of fonts and colour schemes to produce a different range of effects. ‘ Rear Window’s title is very dramatic with a contrast created with the black and white despite this being a colour film. The bold type also creates more focus in the viewer. In ‘The Birds’s title there is more of a chaotic font used that is askew, in a less threatening colour of blue.
7. ADDITIONAL TITLES Although these kind of titles are used traditionally for trailers, I still think they are extremely effective and I really like the way they build up suspense to the actual colour screenplay, or can be used in-between shots related, building up a mysterious narrative.
8. Hitchcock also uses these in his trailer for ‘The Birds’ http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1056113433/ (watch from 4:13 onwards) which effectively plant these rhetorical questions into the viewers mind, increasing their intrigue and desire to watch on. As well as notifying them of the content his target audience is looking for in a film.
9. These two shots are from the trailer of ‘Psycho’. The typeface in motion splits across the screen in each shot, once again emphasizing distress and destruction, suiting the film’s own genre and narrative concerning murder and schizophrenia. Using a shot from the beginning of the film, an overlay of ‘Hitchcock’s chilling masterpiece’ in sharp distorted capitals, and a white contrasting font: immediately linking the disturbing extreme close-up shot of Perkin’s eye spying, with it’s dramatic title.
10. OTHER SCREEN SHOTS TO NOTE These are also some effective shots Hitchcock has used in his films. I have chosen these both because they use mise-en-scene of rain having negative connotations in each shot, and are shot very darkly, having only one source of light to focus on, increasing tension and mystery for the curious viewer. For the shot above, Hitchcock has emphasized the obscured figure handling a suitcase through the alleyway. For the shot on the right the sign reading: ‘BATES MOTEL’ and also ‘VACANCY’ below it is highlighted by the lack of lighting in the rest of the shot. The lettering itself is also slightly distorted from the rain on the car windscreen through which it is seen.
11. This last shot I have chosen is from the effective and shocking ‘shower scene’ from Psycho, one of the best known scenes in cinema history . Featuring 77 different camera angles, the scene runs 3 minutes and includes 50 cuts. Most of the shots are extreme close-ups, except for medium shots in the shower directly before and directly after the murder. The combination of the close shots with their short duration makes the sequence create more empathy in the audience: an example of the technique Hitchcock described as "transferring the menace from the screen into the mind of the audience”. The killer – seen above - is completely obscured and their identity a mystery throughout the thickening plot of the film. The whole sequence is filled with highly tense and unsettling music. This shot is just one of the split-second flashes on screen, as the figure violently uses a stabbing motion through the blur of the cascading water. Hitchcock is renowned for this scene, due to its graphic nature, yet not once is flesh shown to be punctured. Saul Bass, who I mentioned earlier as a designer for the title sequences, also contributed greatly to the making of this scene.