Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

Welcome back.... During class today we watched the opening sequence to the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rear Window". Once again it follow Hitchcock classical way of film and tells the story visually and not through the use of dialogue. We get many clues about the main character all through things we see. We find out his name, from it being written on his leg cast. We find out it is hot due to the fact he is sweating a lot and the fact he see a thermometer which has a very high temperature being shown. We work out that the character is a photographer as he has a number of photographs around his apartment. He photographs dangerous events and craves danger. He also photographs beautiful women (models) for gossip magazines due to a stack of magazines on his side board. the film has a lot of POV (point of view) shots as that story is mainly about the main character looking at of his window and watching everyone. Therefore is features voyeurism (looking at other people). The main character is the voyeur as he is the person watching everyone else.