Thriller Analysis

Psycho Analysis

The first shot we see from the film psycho we get a calm feeling when you see a lady just getting on with her standard life in her house, before she goes into the bathroom with get lots of standard mid shots with a slow pace. As the woman goes into the shower we get some different camera shot to hide her body from the camera by using high angle shots and tilts so focus on the woman’s face, as she turn on the powerful shower it creates a tense mood because the shower is so loud the lady can’t hear anything around her it creates tension because you think that something is going to happen the background changes from slow to medium because you think that something is going to happen.

While the woman is in the shower the camera moves and shows the head of the shower with the water blasting out then as it focuses back onto the woman the camera uses a pan to move and focus on something entering the room this is when the music quickens and becomes high pitch while the shots speed up and keep changing as the curtain rail is ripped back. The psycho stands with a dark silhouette look with long hair covering the predator’s face which shows the psycho is the power house with the dominance against the weak skinny woman, the psycho stands with a bold position as he holds the knife towards the woman as she screams for help. The camera changes to an over the shoulder shot where you see the weak victim as he goes in for the striking blows as the woman is defenceless, the shots changes with a cut away as she is being stabbed from the attack to bad weather with a storm which shows the scene as havoc which portrays the sharp changes in the scene to the fast blows to the woman as she is defenceless.

After the woman has been stabbed many time there is innocence as she slides down the wall the camera uses a tilt to show the focus of her falling down the wall, she leans out to grab the shower curtain like she is gripping for her life as the shower curtain gives way and she falls over the camera shows her dead body from a bird’s eye view where you see the victim lay after the way falls, the blood from the woman swirls and goes down the drain as the camera twisted down the plug whole where the shot uses extreme close up where the camera zooms into the woman’s eye and plug comparing shapes and the life being drained away.