What Is Hitchcock's Surprise?

The film that I have helped to create is Surprise! It features William; the husband and worker of the couple, and Florence; the stay at home wife. After William returns home early, he begins to suspect that not all is well within his household. He decided to find out what is going on, but with deadly consequences.
For this film, I took on the role of the director. I selected the cast for the film, directed rehearsals and the performances, worked with the camera, sound, lighting design and effects and worked with the editor to produce the finished film. I also kept the cast and crew encouraged, and worked to keep to our time schedule. The audience is greatly affected by my decisions as I, as the director, have the vision of what the film is going to be like and the final say or a helping hand in most of what happens on set, costume, cinematography, editing and sound.
Throughout our short film, I used elements of many of Hitchcock’s techniques such as the suspense model, ‘the chase’ and secrets. We didn’t use the techniques as a whole, but picked parts of them that suited our story and used them to develop our film, making it more in the style of Hitchcock. Elements such as withholding information from both the audience and the main character, someone having a secret plan and the hero doing something wrong and

These little clues make the audience wonder about what the truth is, as well as contribute to a feeling of tension. The more William and the audience see, the more tense it becomes as it is clear that someone won’t be leaving the house alive. Further tension is created through camera angles and techniques, such as a ‘don’t cut’ shot where the lingering camera intensifies the feeling of the shot, making it more ominous and foreboding. As the tension builds it adds to the overall feeling of suspense in the short film, leaving the audience in uncertainty about how the film will