The Theory of Films
Directors are very important as they oversee the film-making process and they make all of the final decisions as to how things should be done, and how their film should be presented. Some directors like to put their own personal stamp onto the films that they make, such as using similar colours or the same actors in many of their works. This is known as the auteur theory. Alfred Hitchcock is known for his auteur style that involves using camera angles to replicate a person's gaze. In subsequence, the audience become watchers. Additionally in some of his films, such as Rear Window, Rope and Lifeboat, the action is restricted to a single setting to create tension. This limits characters escape routes and it means that all of the drama occurs within a smaller space. Hitchcock films have also been known to take regular people into risky, unusual scenarios. For example, in Psycho, an average woman gets stabbed to death in the shower of the motel in which she