Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Psycho

Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock
1960
Usa

- head level shots
- establishing shots
- crane shot into the window seemed as 1 continuas shot
- voyerism (extreme fashion) shot onto the window
- panning shot on the characters movement
- side shots both equal importance of the characters at the beginning
- zooming in on money, the eyes movement
- camera is our eyes
- shot and reverse shots used
- close up
- double shot

1 comment:

Donald said...

It's worth looking at more scenes from this film to help reinforce your understanding of film language.