Story pattern

YOU: A girl, Marion, who works in an office
NEED: She wants money
GO: She steals 40.000 dollars and runs away
SEARCH: She stops in Bates motel
YOU: The owner of the motel, Norman,  who lives next to it
NEED: The man is crazy , he has two personalitites: his personality and his mum´s
GO: He on his mum´s personality killes the girl
SEARCH: He on his own personality throw the body, in a lack
YOU: Girl´s sister and boyfriend
NEED: Want to know what happened to Marion
GO: They follow her trail to  the motel
SEARCH: Investigate in the motel
FIND: They discover Norman has double personality and that he in his mother´s personality has killed Marion
TAKE: Marion is dead
RETURN: police knows Norman illnes
CHANGE: The sister and boyfriend can continue with their lives.

Pitch

DATA SHEET:

Famous film made in 1960 in the USA. Long film of 1h 49min, 109 minutes.

PLOT:

-A young woman is sturbed in a motel and her sister and boyfriend will try to find out what happenned to her.

-The motel owner will be important, he lives next to the motel with his mother, he has a strange relationship with her.

INTERESTIN POINTS:

- The person who appears first as the main character dies too fast, and that was something new.

-The use of camera is modern, especially in action scenes.

FILM analysis

PSHYCO

Pshyco was filmed in 1960 in the USA. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, famous director because of his suspense and thriller films, and with Anthony Perkins (Bates) and Janet Leigh (Marion) in the leading roles. It is based on a novel by Robert Bloch. It´s about a motel owner who has two different personalities and that struggles to have full control of either one of them. 

Marion steals money from her boss and dissapears whithout anyone, she stops to sleep in a motel in the middle of nowhere and it just so happens that she is the only gest. During the night, while she is having a shower she is sturbed to death. Then the murderer puts her body in her car and drives it into a lake. The motel is owned by Bates and he lives in the following house. Then Marion´s sister and bofriend, worried about her, help a private detective who was searching Marion because of the stolen money to find her. He discovers that Marion slept on Bates motel and he is also murdered. As they know nothing about the detective they go to motel and discover the truth. Bates after the death of his mum he couldn´t accept it so he addopted her personality, and he thinks she stills alive.

My favourite character was Bates, because he was so inteligent. He is the bad of the history and usually  people don´t like that character but I think he was so good been bad. A scene to point out from the film is the main action when Marion is sturbed wiht a knife, this is very famous and one of the most influencial scenes on cinematography industry. Marion is killed by Bates whith his mother personallity (so we can say that it was his mother), she wanted to be the only woman on his son live so when he likes a girl his mum is jealous and she killes her.

The actors work is so good, every situation and conversation looks so realist and I think that´s one of the strong points of the film, that everything is true and realistic, is innovative because is the first film showing this mental diseasse to the public. The movie flows so good, fast enough not to worry and slow enough to understand it, a good use of the camera and the music helps on that. The use of camera is so innovative and modern for that time, Hitchcock was the pioneer of a lot of new cinematography thecnics, he used a lot of close ups, for example we can see one in the scene previously mentioned to the knife, he also used the camera as the eyes of a characther to give more realisim and a new point of view to the scene, it also makes that the action reach better the public as they are been puting in the place of the character. The music is also important, the film has a very good soundtrack, it goes with the film all the time creating tension and expentation. Some parts of teh soundtrack have became so popular, for example the music of the shower scene is well-known.

In conclucion Pshyco is a good film because of the resources it uses and the captivating story. Personally I like and recommend the film because is very important on cinematography history so everyone who likes filming have to watch it and also people who doesn´t like cinematography will like it because the plot is thrilling and the film cativates the public from the beginning.

A PICTURE

There was a photographic contest and we had to take a picture in our school´s neighborhood. Then I went to Sert square and took this two pictures. In the first one we see two palm trees using the rule of thirds. And on the second one we see the square itself.