Hitchcock believed that everything in the making of a screenplay is done for the audience and that nothing is more important than how each scene is going to affect the viewer. He made sure that the content engaged the audience and reeled them in, he manipulated the use of his characters to tease the viewer and pull them along desperately wanting to know more.
Portraying emotion was one of Hitchcock greatest highlights and he knew what camera angles best showed emotion that would add suspense to the audience and allow the audience to relate as they could understand this emotion. A close-up really focuses on emotion as it shows the characters eyes and very little background. The intensity of emotion can be controlled by placing the camera further away or closer to the characters eyes.
One of Hitchcock's techniques includes allowing the camera shots to have human qualities such as when looking around in a room (for something suspicious), this allows the viewers to feel like they are involved in uncovering the story.
This is a brief part of a documentary made of Alfred Hitchcock's film techniques:
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