Film Techniques In Psycho

In the film an atmosphere of suspense is created using various film techniques such as lighting, music and through the plot itself. The film also takes on a Gothic tone using different characteristics and techniques such as the settings, symbolism, emotions such as fear and the different atmospheres in the film. The director explores the theme of good vs evil through different elements and characters in the film generally following normal good vs evil stereotypes with some exceptions.

The scene is dramatically ironic because only the audience can see the ghost. Dutch angles are exploited once again as the camera focuses on the house and then two ravens fly into the shot. Ravens are symbolic of death, adding to the gothic genre as well as the fact that this house may hold something of the dead. In the next shot, the owner of the unknown number is revealed to the audience as well as the protagonist as there is a guard which the audience can recognise as the ghost in the tree. The ‘ghost’ calls “come” which is a motif from the beginning of the film. After this, the photographer is followed by the camera and is seen being forcefully pulled in by the ‘ghost’. When the photographer walks away from the house, her eyes are open, representing that her body has been swapped and the ghost has taken over her body. The dramatic ending of the photographer throwing a paper reminds the audience of the paper at the start of the film in which the prophecy is written on. I believe I portrayed this story well enough, although I could be clearer in scenes to convey that is going

In these two movies, the right music and visuals had to be chosen in order to get the ambiance Hawke and Branagh tried to obtain. Each director chose different music and images that were very visual and auditive for an audience’s appeal. In Hawke’s version, visuals of New York and Times Square were appealing to an audience. Modern music at the beginning of the film caught the interest of the younger generation. As well, close ups of Hamlet were revealing to an audience and it was easy to feel infatuated by the character’s nihilistic despair. Branagh’s version used supernatural and dark visuals of ghosts, statues, and castles to produce feelings of awe and fear. The scene of the ghost was quick and staggering, and it created an automatic feeling of anxiety and fear. As well, the traditional use of classical music did a skillful job of creating suspense. Both directors appealed to an audience by using music and visuals that created an ambiance the directors desperately

darkness are used to make the atmosphere scary and teeming with danger, much as the 1931 film.

American Psycho is a movie adaptation directed by Marry Harron released in the year 2000 that was based off of the 1991 novel of the same name authored by Bret Easton Ellis. The movie focuses on the main character Patrick Bateman who is an investment banker in New York in the era of the early 1980’s. Patrick is a perfectionist whose life by day seemingly rotates between his picture-perfect job, his superficial relationship with his fiancée Evelyn, and his shallow interaction with his co-workers and peers. By night, Patrick is a textbook Psychopath and a serial killer.

One of the ways why cinematography made the film was the lighting. To get the feel, the lighting appeared to be fake shadows that were painted on the set. The fake shadows that were painted on the set gave the lighting appeared to be harsh and sharper to set the mood for the audience. If it weren’t for the painted shadows, the movie wouldn’t have been so successful in the horror genre. Since it was a silent movie, if it weren’t for the shadows, you wouldn’t of seen it as a horror film, but as an original film that was trying to be creative.

The director most likely did this to create a mood for the audience to have their first impression of the theme of the performance be a dark, melancholic theme, possibly also to foreshadow

Before the cinematically revolutionary Citizen Kane, filming techniques before were not quite as advanced, and were rather banal in terms of movements and lighting. Scenes were captured rigidly and provided the viewer with a constant eye-level view, which gave no sense of artistic design. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane rejects such triteness, and instead employs a new, imaginative filming technique known as the deep focus. Citizen Kane does more than just a unique camera trick, however, as it also provides an original, non-linear story for the viewer to follow, as well as new uses for lighting. Orson Welles stars as Charles Foster Kane, an extremely wealthy newspaper publisher.

Psycho the album cover, also uses the distinctively visual to convey the details of a dystopian society. Psycho, by Post Malone, released on February 23, 2018. Malone uses the distinctively visual to shape his audience’s response to the aspect of corruption of the human condition and the fate of its future. It is clear that the composer cleverly uses visual images to reflect realities in our world which he depicts as life possibly lacking stability and surety. The werewolf is a symbolic portrayal of humans who inwardly harbor hatred towards others.

I really like the camera technique in the film Psycho. The scene that caught my attention is the shower scene, where Marion gets murdered. When Marion gets in the shower two shots are used when the bathroom door opens to show that someone entered the room. It creates a tense atmosphere for the audience because the shower water running is the only sound we hear. When the shower curtain is opened, the camera zooms in and we get a mid shot of a dark figure holding a knife.

Throughout the movie there was no background music that related with the mode of the movie or certain scenes. The lighting in the movie was what I would say a shadow, neither dark nor bright, but a good in between that set the mode of the movies thriller mystery. The tone and mode is well represented in the film with the combination of having no background music and having a good lighting set. If the film had background music or different lighting portrayed in it, it would have affected the tone and mode of the movie, giving it a completely different

Now first off, lets discuss the setting. If it isn’t clear, this is going to be a very dimly-lit film. Because of the illness suffered by the children, a large majority of the film takes place in total darkness, with only minimal lighting by candlelight. Obviously, this isn’t the first horror film to incorporate minimal lighting into its presentation, but here it’s

The aesthetic choices were the dark stage which sets up the horror theme of the performance. The gothic clothing, which brings a specific period of time to mind, Victorian I think. And the sounds such as the chorus announcing the “curse”, the heavy beats and lighting in the background, which also helps set the horror feel of the performance.

The human body is a fascinating thing; it has a system in the brain specifically for detecting when people are gazing at them. In a story, it’s crucial for the author to build up to a climax, making the reader sense something bad will occur. When authors do this, they strive to make the reader uneasy whilst reading. This component in a scary piece is called foreboding. A foreboding mood is one of the components that are necessary to make a scary media. In the two medias, The Elevator, by William Sleator, and Lights Out, directed by David Sandberg, the author and director both use a foreboding mood to create a scary suspense for the pieces in both similar and different ways. They both used repetition, descriptions, and a setting to help craft the mood of the medias. Consequently, all scary media should strive to apply a foreboding mood into their piece to help manipulate the reader into being frightened.

Norman Bates, in the movie Psycho (1960), follows the basic traits of a psychopath, he has a high psychoticism, he is an introvert, and has major neuroticism. In the movie a young woman, Lila Cane, steals $40,000 and runs out of town. She drives non-stop for hours on end. When finally overcome with exhaustion she pulls over at a deserted hotel and is met by a young man, Norman Bates. With seemingly no reason the supposed mother kills the girl in the shower. Later when a P.I. comes to investigate the disappearance of Lila and the money he is killed when caught snooping in the Bates’ home. When the police come following the private investigator it is found out the Norman was the killer all along; due to his deranged mind he had acquired the persona of his mother who wanted nothing other than to be alone with Norman. This clearly displayed Norman as a psychopath due to his high psychoticism, introversion, and his neuroticism or instability.