Analysis of Pyscho shower scene, exploring how film technique are used to create effects - notes

Camera
-Mid shot used as the main shot in the scene
-Close up used to show detail and create tension
-Close up/low angle of shower head
- High angle of women showering- shows her helplessness and weakness
- Extreme close up of sink, eye and the plug hole which is a graphic match.
- Slow pan when the killer is introduced
-Tilt to show women falling to the floor
-Handheld used in the beginning to make it appear realistic
-Staggered zoom into her mouth

Editing
- Slow pace (drawn out) -makes you assume that something will happen. It also allows you to see the character in their surroundings.
-Pace speeds up when the women is killed and when the killer is first introduced into the shot. (fast paced shots)
-Shots go on for a long time (calming and natural)
-Cuts to a shot of stormy skies (pathetic fallacy)
-Camera spins, extreme close up of eye, this gives a sense of choas, panic and confusion.
- There is a graphic match of the plug and the eye.

Sound
Digetic
-Slow, calming neutral sounds (shower running)
-Sharp sound from the shower curtain moving
- The women screaming from being wounded and seeing the murdered for the first time
- The water going down the plug hole - this could connote the womens life wasting away

Non-diegetic
-Natural orchestral music - calming
-Sharp violin sounds (piercing)
-High pitch violin
-Low pitched drugs
-Inbetween (signals death/ the end.)