North by North West 

One of the greatest 1950's thrillers

North by North west is an American based thriller film which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this film includes the following stars Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. This thriller film had a budget of $4.3m at the box offices it made over $9.8m.

In all films Hitchcock has directed he has planned every scene visually in advance. In the 1950's there was not a lot of technology that was accessible by the directors to add different effects to films it was mainly camera work and pre planned scenes, not a lot of editing or film effects were added in those times. Hitchcock believed the stress on the visual makes cinema accessible in different languages.                                                                                                          


Blog 2 Laura Mulvey,representation of women in North By North West
Laura Mulvey had a theory, which was Laura Melvey's theory of male gaze. This theory was about the erotic scenes in films and how men were always seeing women as sexual objects and the audience is forced to identify when there is a male gaze scene. Cinema reflects patriarchal (male dominance) e.g. in cinema guns=phallus (penis)=power.
  
Her two theories she has are visual pleasure and narrative cinema.


Camera Work in North By North West
In North by North west there are many types of camera angles including wide shot,steady cam,tracking,pov and many more.

In this fight scene in North by North west the camera is focusing on them in a type of wide shot from an angle. The camera is in that angle because it gives a more intense and wider scene to be able to see more on the background and the scenery.



Another camera shot, this is a tracking shot when the supposed Roger Thornhill is being attacked by a crop duster plane and it shows the intensity in the actors face and also tracks so you can see the speed and closeness.