SoundSound•Before the women get’s into the shower, it is very quiet with non-diegetic music that slowly builds up to eerie slow pace music which is perfect for building tension. •Then the music stops and you can just hear the sound of the shower when it comes on.•As soon as the shower curtain is pulled away, the high pitched music is then once played again, this time much louder and faster. The music over the top, is typical of a thriller genre. It is a piercing sound which holds suspense as well as scaring the audience. •Before the ‘physco’ stabs the women, you hear a piercing scream coming from her, Hitchcock uses selective sound with this to produce a scream that terrifies the audience and to emphasise the women’s fear.•As she struggles for her life, the screams become much less piercing, this shows that the women is dying and hurt from the stabbings, that she physically can’t scream anymore. •When the ‘physco’ leaves, the music that was playing over the top becomes far less high pitched and slows down a lot, maybe to show that when he leaves a sense of terror has left with him.

•Throughout the shower scene, the shower is constantly on in the background. To signify that the killer is a bit twisted to kill in the first place, but also to kill her in the shower. The sound of the shower also shows that what she’s doing is a part of everyday life, and the killer is spoiling her life by killing her, especially in her own home. •The music at the end, slowly dies down and I think Hitchcock used the music to reflect the that the women is also slowly dying as she grabs the shower curtain and falls over the side to her death.•There is defiantly a use of selective sound when she is getting stabbed to over emphasise the sound of the knife going in.

Camera AnglesCamera Angles• As she’s walking over to the bathroom, a long shot is used to show where she is, it looks like

she’s in her own house/apartment where she should be safe.• As I found out in my research Hitchcock liked to engage his audience in a form of voyeurism,

and he’s certainly done so in his shower scene, whereby he has purposely filmed the women in the shower, naked, but the camera just cuts off her breasts, engaging the viewer in a sexual scene.

• Then when the shower is turned on, he uses an up shot to capture the shower spewing water.

• Then when the silhouette of the killer appears from behind the curtain, it zooms in to focus on him so we pay our attention to him.

• Then it holds the shot very briefly when he pulls the curtain open and we see him in all black, with a knife to establish that he’s about to kill her.

• Then as she scream it zooms up on her mouth, showing that she’s screaming and terrified.• There is a down angle shot used with the two of them in the shot to show that he’s trying to

kill her and so that you can see her attempting to defend herself from him.• Every time the killer goes to stab her, the camera very rapidly shifts to her, so that you can

see the power he holds over her. • When the killer leaves there is then a close of on the women’s hand, as she slowly falls down

to show her pain as she tries to clasp onto the wall as she slowly dies.

Mise-en-SceneMise-en-Scene• The clothing and props are typical of a 1960 film, not to mention the fact that the film is in

black and white.• There is no talking in this scene, this might be to highlight that she is alone at home. Or it

may also be to emphasise the women’s screams when she is being murdered. • Before she is brutally murdered, it seems as if she’s enjoying her shower, so oblivious to the

fact that she is just about to me killed.• When the silhouette appears behind her, she has her back to it, this could be because the

Hitchcock didn’t want the women to see the killer before he kills her, so then she is shocked when he kills her.

• As she struggles, high pitched screams are acted out to show how scared she is of her murderer.

• After the murderer leaves, the music continues to play as the women falls down the wall for dramatic effect.

• Even though it is in black and white, there is still a use of blood.

EditingEditing

• When the women is struggling, there’s a lot of fast pace editing as the women tries to fight off her killer.

• You never see any of the women’s wounds close up, most likely because in the sixties they didn’t have the sufficient equipment to know how to do that.

• Never the less, the editing quickly moves from the killer to the victim, showing her reaction when she gets stabbed, and then quickly back to the murderer.

• Then when the murderer leaves, the editing slows down as she falls to the floor and supposedly to her death.

• It shows about 70 fast paced cuts in about 1 minute. Not showing the killers face once. Therefore holding the audience’s attention and keeping them watching.