tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265014241875110812.post351870563351703363..comments2024-03-10T14:04:48.024-04:00Comments on The Projection Booth Podcast: Episode 270: Stage Fright (1950)Mike Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17690940782275888014noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265014241875110812.post-20207775451334576142016-10-25T19:22:08.207-04:002016-10-25T19:22:08.207-04:00This episode is pretty good, the analysis definite...This episode is pretty good, the analysis definitely adds a lot to this "lesser" Hitchcock film. I appreciated Filip Önell's presence as his perspective made things more interesting. I felt this sort of perspective was painfully absent from the Vertigo episode, which just felt like a bunch of people gushing over what a brilliant masterpiece it is. It's important to have a voice that feels a little more grounded or contrary to the rest of the panel.<br /><br />On the subject of a couple of the oddball shots that were discussed: <br /><br />The first one, that obviously processed shot, I'm not sure why Mike is so quick to rule out the possibility of there being technical reasons for the shot. Hitchcock, throughout his career made all sorts of odd technical decisions with mixed results. He was hardly infallible in the technical department. I'm guessing this particular example had something to do with Dietrich's lighting requests coming up against practical needs in lighting the rest of the set causing them to have to do some weird composite thing.<br /><br />Now as for the slow motion shot as she steps from the carriage. I'm guessing it's because in this scene they are supposed to be sneaking along on tip toes, so they had to slow the shot down so the door would be moving slow enough to appear as if it wouldn't be making any noise. I'm guessing at normal speed it looked to be swinging open a little too violently.<br /><br />They both look like decisions made in post-production when they took a closer look, noticed some problems with the footage, and came up with these solutions to patch over the issues.Mazzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08197050816470490562noreply@blogger.com