Authorial Shots Of "Rear Window"
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Authorial shots of “Rear Window”
In “Rear Window”, we are taken into the movie. Hitchcock let’s us be able to explore the good use of authorial shots. The authorial shots can establish a point that is very key to the movie. IT is necessary to show them, to show the movie’s way of working and what is going on between the characters.
In the opening scene, we are guided through a series of scenes. The camera takes us from one scene to another by moving in and out, up and down. The temperature is shown, which is a heat wave temperature and then moves on to the other people out in the view of Jeffreys window. It moves to the people sleeping outside, to the different windows, then into Jeffreys apartment, where we are first introduced to him. We see his cast on his leg with his name, L. B. Jeffreys. Then it moves through his room, onto the pictures that...