I wish I still had my old college notebooks. This is one of the first scenes I ever tried to break down in a diagrammatic way. I took some of the lessons I learned here and applied them to my own college shorts (to varying results). Hitchcock is a technical master. By Vertigo (1958), choices like this must have been second nature to him, but that doesn’t make them any less extraordinary. Not a single shot or setup isn’t deeply considered. That makes watching and mapping out his films a very r...