Since most the movie was filmed in a set in a single spot, sound plays a very important role in the storytelling, certain recognizable sounds were repeated to invoke emotions in the viewer. The sound of the main characters door opening was throughout the story a sign of help of joy, with the main characters friends and love interest coming in, this was played with at the end with the antagonist of the story making that sound by entering the characters house. Hitchcock used the long panning shot as a way to show off the various sounds that would be heard the area, and at the end of the story, comparing and contrasting the sounds with the final panning shot shows the change of everyone. The house of the murderer now replaced by sounds of painting and reconstruction, showing that more was to come of that area. Another key feature of the panning shot and it's sounds is showing how everyone there lived their own lives, the ballet dancers boyfriend/husband returned home, the neighbor n...
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Throughout the scene, multiple background sounds of the city can be heard, whether it be the shaking of fire escapes from people waking up, to the sounds of children crying in the streets. These added sounds provide a sense of realism and intricacy to the world created. After World War 2, since Italy was one of the few countries movie industry was not left in shambles, it became the European leader in film. Since everyone returning home from the war saw horrible things and with even more horrible motivations, people were left disturbed, so this was translated to film. More dark themes such as lust, violence, and greed were shown as a sense of relation to the people who felt these thoughts.
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During the Filming of the project, several shots required the same outfit to be worn multiple times over a short period of time, so keeping a small closest of loose form-fitting, easily re-wearable clothes. Several of the shots were filmed in different resolutions, causing problems during editing, so preparing the camera during certain days would have been helpful. Keeping the aspect ratio the same during the film would have been easy to do, but simple human error is ever so prevalent in the world of filing. An artificial change in resolution during parts of the film was added to provide a sense of blurriness for the viewer, relating the ever-blurring world the character lives in. A strong tint was used during every scene in the movie, the bluer the film became, the happier it was for the character, and as the film transitioned to a deep red, a more violent and upsetting world it became for the character. Once the film comes a close, the film so blue it is on the edge o...