Page 5 "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Completion requirements
Page 5 "The Tell-Tale Heart"
| Watch film clips A and B from Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious below. |
Film sequence A gives the audience information (the tea is poisoned), the main character does not have.
The director's point of view can be compared to third person omniscient point of view.
Viewers trust what they see, not what they hear.
In film sequence B, the audience looks through the girl's eyes.
A subjective point of view is a shot taken from the eye line or perspective of a character in the film. This is much like first person.
- What is her reaction to discovering she is being poisoned?
Point of View Spectrum
A subjective point of view is one in which the narrator is part of the story.
If the "The Tell-Tale Heart" were a movie, it could be shot from a subjective point of view. It is a horror story told from a private perspective as if the narrator meets you as a stranger and tells you his deepest, darkest secrets.
| Click here for a list of vocabulary words in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and their meanings. |
| Read the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe on pages 22-27 of SightLines 8. If you would like support, several video versions of the story are available on Youtube, including the one below. |
As an audience, do you trust what you see (the narrator's actions) or what you hear when he tells you he loves the old man?
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Self-Assessment
On the next page complete the Self-Assessment - Unit 4 - "The Tell-Tale Heart". |
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