Research: Film Image Analysis (Psycho) 3

This is just after the montage of Marion’s death in the shower, as this is quite early within the film we can say that she fits in the horror’s character and representation as a female victim.  A lot of cinematography techniques have been used to make sure the audience feel emotion to the character. Firstly we could say that the expressionist angled extreme close up shot of her eye is to show her expressionless eye, showing she is dead. Before this shot there is another shot of blood ‘spiralling’ down the drain. This shot was added as a connotation to Marion’s life ‘spiralling’ down the drain. The use of collision cutting from quick to slow is used to show that Marion is dead and the contrast between her being alive to her being dead. Hitchcock was fascinated with how montage’s are used to create an emotion and because of this he was very skilled in this area of cinematography.