How Does Hitchcock Create Tension The film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a horror movie about a girl called Marion

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Mathulan Mohanan                                                                 10G4

 How Does Hitchcock Create Tension

 

       The film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock is a horror movie about a girl called Marion being dramatically killed in Norman Bates’s motel. It was made in the 1960’s and still considered extremely scary because of the techniques Hitchcock has used such as lighting, sound tracks, costumes, the use of colours, weather, camera angles and music. Hitchcock has been described as “the master of horror movies” because he has perfected these techniques by using them at the right time and place; also he has shown a lot of experience of making horror movies within the other’s he has made.

     

     Hitchcock used the plot to build tension. He relaxes us at first by starting with a love scene, where Marion is in her underwear in a room kissing with her boyfriend which leads us into a thought that it’s going to be a romantic film with a happy ending. However, as the film goes on so does the track of suspense which makes the audience feel suspicious?

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     Hitchcock’s manipulation of soundtrack constructs tension at many points.. Hitchcock has used this technique in the film in the shower scene. While Marion was in the shower there was no music except for the sound of the water and suddenly the music is loud, crashing and brings terror to the audience as the murder occurs. This use of soundtrack makes the audience comfortable at first and as soon as the loud music comes in, it makes the audience fell menacing which makes us jump but always acts as a contrast to the sharp music.

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