Use of Cinematography in "Psycho"

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Year: 1960

• wide shots
• panning shots
• establishing shot through the window- crane shot
• zooming in and closing in in one go
• we are the camera
• big city, goes to a small couple
• the opening goes against the genre
• dissolve shot
• window- we want to know who's through it
• same shot that is outside as it is inside
• we've kind of 'climbed through the window'
• once through the window the camera stays in one position
• both people are of equal importance- the film could be about either of the

• her point of view
• our point of view- we are 'spying' on her
• it's like we're in the room with her
• reverse shot
• close-up