... directors a much greater freedom in believable visuals. Along with these innovations, audiences have also advanced, and have come to expect the infinitely deceiving, seamless computer graphics to give them the ultimate visual experience, forfeiting the need for imagination. This in itself brings a marked difference between Psycho and Scream. When Hitchcock produced Psycho in 1960 censorship played a major role in all film ... for the film to work. For the majority of the film, particularly at the beginning, the camera remains static. Mostly in mid shots, the focus is generally trained o...

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... was that of intermingling action with songs. Examples of this technique in contemporary theatre can be seen in plays such as Woza Albert. Songs integrated into onstage action allow the actors to step out of the roles they are demonstrating and address the audience directly, becoming the characters way of justifying their motives or explaining themselves. The Brechtian technique of making ... think about the existence of man and the injustices and prejudices of the time. Fugard aim with this was making audiences aware of degradation and dehumanising of people and the ultimate transcenden...

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