Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, September 23

Starting from the library scene in Shadow of a Doubt, we examined the use of extreme high and low camera angles in the film, most often associated with the motif of stairs and the tense jockeying for position between the two Charlies.  We especially stressed the ironic high-angle shot in which Uncle Charlie pauses as he springs up the stairs, and turns around to look at the terrifying spectre of innocent young Charlie suffused by sunlight in her girlish Sunday dress.