This scene introduce Norman Bates hobby of Taxidermy which
adds to the Norman’s creepy persona and shows Norman as being isolated and out
of the CDI. The mise en scene also helps warn the audience about Norman for
Marion’s last name is Crane and Norman has a great interest in taxidermy so she
could be in danger. “The psycho killer” is a key aspect of horror films. All
horror films follow a lot of generic conventions and they
can either be slow moving monster/fast moving monster of the early
horror movies but Alfred Hitchcock wanted to shock the audience with the whole
Ed Gein only just passed that help appeal to its target audience. The
importance of generic conventions was written about by Thomas Schatz in his
book “Hollywood Genres.
Also the fact that the birds are in the shot tell us that
Norman is a predator similar to the birds of prey on his wall. The low key
lighting helps give his office a light by his bird in the corner of the room
helps reinforce the idea that he is a predator looking down upon his prey.
The low key angle gives Norman power in the scene for the
audience seems to look up to Norman while shots of Marion are shown on level
with her this helped show us that Norman is in control of the situation.
This scene is the way Hitchcock uses lighting and camera and
mise-en-scene to give an uncomfortable character and situation that make us
feel uncomfortable.
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