ABSTRACT
Alfred Hitchock's Notorious is used for the analysis of overall design of a complete film. Hitchcock's design calls for an active narrator: a camera that can move away from the "ordinary" to draw our attention to the essence of the moment— to what is vital to the audience's appreciation of the story. In this film, Hitchcock assigns a subjective voice to Alicia. Orchestrated with the active narrator, Alicia's voice gives this climactic scene a psychological richness and dramatic complexity that it wouldn't have had otherwise. Many of the transitions between scenes involve fades and dissolves, due mainly to the cinematic conventions common to films made in the 1940s. Hitchcock's clear articulation of narrative beats, superb staging, use of the camera as an active narrator, and the assigning of a subjective voice to the protagonist, discover how Hitchcock, a master of suspense, goes about creating it.
