Psycho 1960

I thought Psycho was a very successful thriller movie, some of the techniques used was the positioning of the camera, point of view shots were used a lot in this movie to try and capture the scene in the point of view of actor playing the stalker. This gives the viewer a unique view of the victim. my favorite scene was the shower scene where the main character is murdered by the killer, with the non-diegetic sound adding to the tension. when the killer appears we hear a shrieking violin noise, the non- diegetic sound along side the the point of view shots of the killer or other actor which allows us to see in the eye of the innocent or the killer. The reason why this movie is black and white is because they did not have the technology to make a coloured film, but i think this added to the effectiveness of the film with the dark representing evil and the white representing the innocent, in this case Lila Crane being the innocent main character and Norman Bates being the "Psycho". The unsuspected attacked course people to jump as it performs the genre its trying to create, which is a thriller. This film was so successful it led to another version being made in the year 2000, which unfortunately was not as successful as the on in 1960.