LLM and HG: Initial Ideas

Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) - Shower scene

Technical Codes:

·        Non diegetic sound – sudden loud music ( violin, orchestra)

·        Character blocking-  The women can’t see the antagonist in the clip

·        Close up – helps us to see the women’s emotion ( she is scared, fearing for her life)

·        Props – The unusually large knife

·        Extreme close up -  Women’s eye was not moving connoting death

·        Diegetic sound -  loud high pitch scream

·        The cutting rate is not fast, this builds up dramatic tension

·        Extreme close up – on women’s mouth when she screams to empathises the scream

·        Set – it is set in the comfort of the home making the experience relate to home environment

 

      The women is represented as vulnerable with her clothes off in the shower therefore the ideological discourse is a regressive one and it reinforces mainstream stereotypes of women being defenceless.