North by north west

Firstly, the film is about an 'innocent' New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. The crop duster scene one of the most iconic scene in film history. It gives the audience a shock and plays a major part within the film "North by north west". Also, Hitchcock, said thrillers allow the audience, “to put their toe in the cold water of fear to see what it’s like”. On that point he believed it was important to change the appearance of the screen into the minds of the audience. Moreover, Alfie Hitchcock uses Media Language to analyse the film sequence. Also, he had every scene planned in advanced. However, before shooting Hitchcock learned all the dialogue and rarely needs to look at a script. Likewise, Hitchcock likens it to a conductor conducting an orchestra without a score. Similarly, when directing, Hitchcock didn't look at the camera once this is because he always imagined he was looking at a cinema screen.  

Secondly, the scene has a variety of different analysis starting from editing. The scene starts off with a slow shot and is set in an unknown area that is full of crops, country life and country roads. However, at the beginning of the scene there is a man standing about lost and in the middle of nowhere and then a crop duster that is shown flying in the open but a distance away, this shows that the crop duster will play a part in the scene, also as the crop duster is introduced the speed of the shot is increased this represents the speed of the crop duster. Furthermore, deeper into the scene a car comes into role and a man gets out then the car drives off, this leaves the two men staring at each other and confused. After a while the man that came out the car makes conversation with the other man standing there and at this point the speed of the shot gets slower and as they get more in depth with the conversation the speed of the shot gets faster. The man that got out of the car had got onto a bus and the other man was left by himself and he looks into the open and the crop duster comes down towards the man, the editing speed is increased and there are plenty of short cuts from this. Moreover, the takes have a different variety of long and short takes but there are more short takes then long takes.

Thirdly, there are different groups that are represented in "North by Northwest" one of the groups that are represented in particular is gender (Men/Women). Gender is shown through Mise-en-scene in "North by Northwest". An example of when this is shown is when the New Yorker is running away from the police because he was involved in the scene of the crop duster crashing into the lorry full with oil. Nevertheless they catch him and take him to a random man who Roger O. Thornhill had never met before and he doesn't get into any trouble. However, the blonde attractive women who was involved in the film always had a lot of trouble and two men had took her and were on the run with her, one of the men was her other half but she didn't like him how he liked her, she had feelings for another man and the other man chased after her and got himself into a lot of trouble with the other two men. This indicates that women are "trouble". We know this because the hot, young blonde women got a her lover A.K.A: Roger O. Thornhill, into trouble with the man she was dating. Additionally, the representation of women in "North by Northwest" is shown by the male glaze as women were viewed as the 'objects of male erotic desire' within the film and to the audience. Also, within this film men are seen as active and women are seen as passive. Equally, the cinema reflects a patriarchal society as the males are dominated for example: when the two men are dragging the blonde women around with them and she can't say or do anything to leave them hence why Roger O. Thornhill goes and rescues her.

Finally, in the crop duster scene the sound is expressed in many different ways. The sound is shown to relate with what is actually happening in the scene for example: when the crop duster is chasing Roger O. Thornhill from a distance you can hear the sound of a war fighting airplane getting closer as the crop duster gets closer to Roger O. Thornhill and the sound is diegetic. However when the crop duster crashes into the lorry full of oil the sound changes and the mood of the scene changes as well. The sound becomes serious and it is an orchestra playing a tune that makes the scene look like something terrible has happened and this sound is non-diegetic as the characters in the play cannot here it. Also, when the lorry full of oil blows up its makes a sound that sounds like a major explosion the sound is also diegetic.