I realized that Alfred Hitchcock has a lot of signature techniques and motifs that define his work. Originally, I thought that this would make things difficult as his style would easily dominate over mine. However, I realized that the two styles are generally quite different, I tend to focus on the characters whereas Alfred Hitchcock’s works are usually more environment or situation-based. Therefore a fusion would, in basic concept, be my characters in Hitchcock’s worlds. My version of Hitchcock’s style.
Why I use filmstrips
One of the main things I wanted to highlight about Alfred Hitchcock is that he has been directing for a very long time. Nowadays, many shows or movies are edited digitally, I wanted to give a more old and historic feel to represent the time he has been in the industry. Therefore, I used filmstrips and black and white pictures, as if it was a silent film from the old days. Why I chose rabbit?
Because rabbits are cute and cuddly! I wanted to follow one of Hitchcock’s motifs, that his “bad guys” are usually likable characters, and I also wanted to make sure I stayed true to my own style of cute animals, that’s why my villain is a cute and cuddly rabbit.
Why carrot mystery?
Many, in fact of most of Hitchcock’s films are about criminals and the mystery world of crimes, thus I figured to use that as well. I thought about criminals and I figured that they usually commit crimes for something they want. For rabbits, obviously that would be carrots and thus the “Carrot Mystery”.
My appearance in one of the strips
Many of Hitchcock’s films contained special appearance of himself, be it crossing the road, boarding a bus or any other insignificant role in the background. Initially he played minor positions, e.g a person in a crowd or a person walking In a long shot. Eventually, he became bolder with his appearances as it became more of his signature. I found this particular signature of his very interesting, and I decided to attempt to do the same as well. So I am making a special appearance in the filmstrip but keeping to my cute and cuddly cartoon-ish style.
