Genre Research: Psycho

The movie I am writing about is Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. This movie is about Marion Crane, a female office worker in Pheonix, Arizona who want to be with her lover. She cannot be with her lover, Sam Loomis, due to the fact that he cannot get married during to the fact that he already has to put a large amount of money towards his alimony. One day, Marion's employer asks her to take forty thousand dollars to the bank to deposit. Marion instead decided to keep the money, determined to start a new life with Sam and away from her troubles in California. When night comes, Marion turns off the main highway due to the obscure road. Due to being tired mental and physically from her crime, Marion decides it would be good to go to the Bates Motel that was hidden and far. There she meets Norman Bates, a weird man who is tortured by his his invalid mother in the hotel. As he sees Marion, he begins to have peculiar thoughts and this begins to show as he makes her dinner while she shower. This is when the real thrill begins. 

Beside the regular suit the Norman Bates wear as the motel manager. When he went to kill Marion, he wore his mother's clothing. He wanted to make sure that if she survived then she wouldn't know or think he murdered her.The lighting was bright for the murder scene and in the beginning. There were times when the lighting changed to shadow Norman Bates.The acting was Marion thinking that she was going to get away from her troubles only to get murdered in a almost empty motel. While Norman Bates his creepiness and his dark side through his planning and murder.The makeup was the the fake blood going down the drain, and the mother. The props were the wheelchair, the dinner, the shower, and the shiny knife.

The setting is mostly in the Bates Hotel although there was her work place, where she met up with sam, and the area where she was on the street. 

At the murder scene of Marion,the shower curtain opened up the camera zooms quickly. Ending at a mid close up of the shadowy figure of Noraman Bates. This science is accompanied with incidental music creating a more frightening scene. The an image of the silhouette creating mystery. A close up shot is used at the scene of Marion in the car. This shows a face full of worry and concerns of being caught. This shot exposes her feeling making the audience uneasy.  The high angle shot of Marion in the bathroom with the stolen money shows vulnerability and that her actions have consequence. Throughout the movie there had been momments of incidental music to create tension in the scenes.