How Does Alfred Hitchcock Use Cinematography In The Birds

How cinematography and sound are used in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) to create meaning and generate a response in an audience
For this essay I will be focusing on the scene in which Melanie is heading to the school to see Annie when they are suddenly attacked by numerous birds while trying to get the school children to safety. I will be focusing on the two micro features, sound and cinematography. The sound that is used in a film can be used to deliver information about what the atmosphere of the scene is or what a character’s state of mind is during the specific scene while cinematography supplies the audience with appropriate ways to ‘read’ the specific scene.
Alfred Hitchcock’s films changed the film industry and shaped it into what it is today. His horror films such as Psycho and The Birds had a huge impact on the horror films of today, for example, the scene I will be looking at in The Birds shows all of the crows silently on a school climbing frame. In the famous horror film Jeepers Creepers (2001) the ending scene shows the
All of the sound is diegetic, It is being sung by the school children but the lyrics they are singing are very unnerving and strange, but until Melanie has entered the school it’s unsure if the music is coming from the children or not. By doing this it makes the audience feel very unsettled and worried, they start to care for Melanie and don’t want her to enter the school as they know it will end badly for her. This sound is asynchronous because it does not fit with the scene; the audience are able to hear the strange music from the very start of the scene before Melanie has even entered the school. The music is asynchronous because there is nothing odd about her arrival at the school which adds a strange affect to the whole sequence as the music is on-going until Melanie, Annie and the school children are attacked by the