Recreating Strangers on a Train

For my Masters of Cinema project I decided to take four key moments and shots that I love from Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951). I chose to recreate the images in a somewhat interpretive sense, using my family as the actors from the film and then setting up each shot as accurately as possible to the original. However, I decided to take a few artistic liberties here and there in regards to the editing of the images and depending on what I had available to recreate said images. I attempted to emulate the Hitchcockian style — his chilling, well-defined framing, surreal, distorted subjects and meticulous attention to detail — as best I could, while also retaining my own personal touch.