Psycho Coursework

‘PSYCHO’ was created on the 30 November 1959 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock; it was based on the book by Robert Bloch.

The plot was about a young woman, who steals $40,000 from her employer's client,
She finds a young motel owner who’s too long under the Domination of his mother.

The start of the production was on the 30th November 1959 – February 1st 1960
The release date was on the 16 June 1960 (USA)
The film locations were in:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Route 99 of the Fresno-Bakersfield Highway, California, USA
San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA

Characters:
Alfred Hitchcock …Director
Anthony Perkins... Norman Bates
Janet Leigh... Marion Crane
Vera Miles... Lila Crane
John Gavin... Sam Loomis
Martin Balsam...Detective Milton Arbogast

The budget cost was US$800,000 to make the film and has earned more than US$40 million

Before the film was released Alfred Hitchcock used black and white screening to give the story a mysterious look and less predictable, with also adding haunting music to the opening titles, which continues in certain scenes throughout the film. The shower scene in the film is the most famous scene ever written. Evan the trailer created suspense by Alfred Hitchcock, who took the audience round the main parts of the film, back stage but did not finish his sentences, and he kept main details a secret.
When it came out in the cinema, Hitchcock insisted that audiences should only be allowed to see the film from the start so it did not ruin the surprise that it held. This was unheard of back then, as people were used to just coming in at any point during a movie, he did this because he felt that it would create more tension; it would have more people wanting to watch it.

But Psycho had many imitations after its release, because it was so successful, with the suspense, that many other films used its idea of the ‘bathroom’ scene, for example ‘The Simpson’s’ used the idea in a few of its episodes with using the same type of music in that very scene.