master of suspense

Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense because he can attract an audience like no other director could. The audience knows that they are safe even if they throw things at them, and know that nothing will hurt them. He wants emotion to be used in his film and wants to build emotion that the audience gets involved with. Wide shots have less emotion and close-ups means more emotion. These techniques were also used in "Rear Window" when they see the man keep hiding things under his bed and the ring was a major moment in the movie because we were all trying to figure out why the ring was with him and not ms. Thorwall.