click me Lighting is just as powerful a tool when storytelling as dialogue and music are. Lighting tells the audience where a character lies morally and what sort of decisions they may make. In this blog, I explore lighting and its application to thrillers.
Blog intro Hello. I'm Joe and welcome to my blog, over the next two years I aim to improve my skills and learn more about the media and filmmaking. This year I will be focusing on thrillers.
I am going to be analysing the shower scene from Pyscho. Why this scene? This scene changed thrillers forever it opened a door to onscreen violence. Onscreen violence wasn’t shown in the 60s so when Psycho came out it terrified audiences all over the world. the use of lighting in the shower scene brought a whole new way of having onscreen violence without it being too gory this was the use of silhouettes they light the killer to give him a silhouette so you can tell what is happening but you cannot see it because of the lighting. The 45-second shower scene took over 70 takes to film. Analysis: The scene begins with Marion Crane preparing to send all of the money back that she had stolen from her work. this gives the audience a sense that she has good morals then she goes to get in the shower. As she is relaxing in the shower we see a figure dressed in women's clothing slowly approaching the outline is blurred this gives the audience a sense of suspense as they do...
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