Multimedia Learning Principles #330: Challenge | Recap
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Hi Ang,
I enjoyed the demo. Scatters are one of my favorite ways to show data. As for the Hitchcock characters, I'm stumped as well. None of them seem like a full cast from one movie. Man with the hat could be someone like James Stewart from the Man Who Knew Too much or Vertigo--he wore a hat like that. The girl with pony tail looks like the daughter in the Birds--and lady with gray pulled back hair reminds me of Jessica Tandy (mother in the Birds) or Norman Bates's mother from Psycho? Last man on the right in white shirt could be a Norman Bates? Did the artist have any characters that looked like Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren, Janet Leigh, or Cary Grant? As you can see I thought about this way too long! :)
I enjoyed the demo. Scatters are one of my favorite ways to show data. As for the Hitchcock characters, I'm stumped as well. None of them seem like a full cast from one movie. Man with the hat could be someone like James Stewart from the Man Who Knew Too much or Vertigo--he wore a hat like that. The girl with pony tail looks like the daughter in the Birds--and lady with gray pulled back hair reminds me of Jessica Tandy (mother in the Birds) or Norman Bates's mother from Psycho? Last man on the right in white shirt could be a Norman Bates? Did the artist have any characters that looked like Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren, Janet Leigh, or Cary Grant? As you can see I thought about this way too long! :)
Thank you Jody. I agree scatter graphs are cool. Re: Hitchcock, appreciate you racking your brain. I am flummoxed, the illustrator labels the character set as a movie, and there is only one other character, seated in a brown suit, no recognizable actor look-alikes. It remains a mystery. I was thinking Psycho but the man in the hat threw me.
- I love movie trivia and puzzles, so I had to look into this. I think it's supposed to be The Birds, because I see Cathy Brenner's yellow cardigan and Melanie Daniels' gorgeous green coat. I'm assuming you resized the characters for the scatter graph?
My best guesses, from left to right: Hitch, himself; Charles McGraw as Sebastian Sholes (sans hat), Veronica Cartwright as Cathy Brenner, Malcolm Atterbury as Deputy Al Malone, Suzanne Pleshette as Annie Hayworth (with dress/coat colors switched), Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels, Rod Taylor as Mitch Brenner. The man in the hat is a bit of an anomaly. No one wears a brown suit with a hat like that in The Birds, but it looks exactly like the outfit Malcolm Atterbury wore in North by Northwest.
My resource is https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/1000_Frames_of_The_Birds_(1963)- Great sleuthing, Jenna! You're as skilled a Grace Kelly (Lisa Fremont) in Rear Window. :)
- Thank you Jenna, great research and thanks for the link. Just down to the man in the brown suit and hat; maybe, as you mentioned, he could have snuck in from another movie set!
