"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds,..."

[jodymichelle]

"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms." ~Alfred Hitchcock





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[Kim Welch]

Hitchcock's point is a great exercise: try telling a scene with the sound off and see if the faces and actions still carry the story. Members, which film scene do you think tells its story best without dialogue?