So called classics
Out of context: Reply #49
- Started
- Last post
- 61 Responses
- heathen0
right on kezza! creatives should draw influence from everything, past or present... mainstream or underground, amazing and shitty.
also wanted to mention that aliendn is totally right, Hitchcock would spend days, weeks, months just setting up the perfect shot even if it only showed in the movie for a couple seconds. the guy was insane! he would painstakingly reconstruct environments and settings to play on latent visual images hinted throughout the movie.
the camera techniques that he used are copied even today. the sweeping wide angle shot in Notorious, that "vertigo" effect aliendn was talking about, painting on film (called rotaring i believe?) etc. were all just work-arounds to special effects limitations of that time.
plus the man had SAUL BASS do alot of the credits on his movies, and those are amazing on their own!!