What i see

After watching the movie Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock, it was easy to point out many instances in how Hitchcock was able to use the camera work alone to enhance and  progress the story along. The entire movie takes place in one apartment which makes it all the more difficult to keep the audience interested. through the use of camera angles and effects he was able to keep our focus.

There were many great examples of the kulashov effect in the movie. The scenes where James Stewart ( Jefferies) would look through the courtyard and into his neighbors lives. As he watched in, Hitchcock would use cuts, showing actions and reaction shots, many times Jefferies would have the slightest facial reactions but with the editing we were able to understand based on what we knew he was looking at. It was also interesting to see the camera techniques that Hitchcock used to enhance our vision on what we saw in the courtyard. as Jefferies would sometimes use his own still camera with a long lens to zoom into his neighbors apartments, Hitchcock would cut to a close up POV of what Stewart was looking through his camera.

The use of framing played a great role in this movie. the courtyard itself seemed to be a large painting with separate little frames in which each character lived there own little lives. and the only time Stewart could look into their lives if they were in the room ( the frame) that faced into the courtyard.