The film that i will be doing a case study on will be Psycho, this is because I am a great fan of Alfred Hitchcock and i feel that this is a brilliant film to write about. Hitchcock was an amazing producer and film maker he started off by managing to secure a job as a title designer in a studio in London called Lasky for two years. He had is first chance at stardom when in 1923 the director of Always Tell Your Wife fell ill he was pulled up to complete in finishing the movie. This highly impressed the studio managers and they decided to give him a directing assignment on a movie named Number 13 but he unfortunately could not finish it as the studio closed its British operation. He was then hired by a man named Michael Balcon to work as an assistant director for the company later to be known as Gainsborough Pictures, he worked as a writer, title designer and art director. After many years at the company he was given the chance to direct a British/German co-production called The Pleasure Garden, his career as a director finally began. The nightmarish, disturbing film's themes of corruptibility, confused identities, voyeurism, human vulnerabilities and victimization, the deadly effects of money, Oedipal murder, and dark past histories are realistically revealed. Its themes were revealed through repeated uses of motifs, such as birds, eyes, hands, and mirrors.Psycho also broke all film conventions by displaying its leading female protagonist having a lunchtime affair in her sexy white undergarments in the first scene; also by photographing a toilet bowl - and flush - in a bathroom (a first in an American film), and killing off its major 'star' Janet Leigh a third of the way into the film (in a shocking, brilliantly-edited shower murder scene accompanied by screeching violins). The 90-odd shot shower scene was meticulously storyboarded by Saul Bass, but directed by Hitchcock himself.
I chose to study this film because even though it was shot years ago and our conventions of filming are more advanced this film still gives you a thrill like it should. It is no way boring and in know way ever going to get old and boring. Hitchcock's movie's will always be the best as to me the oldies are the best and this is up there with one of the best. I chose this one instead of the Kite Runner because i felt that Psycho was a better film all around it was more my type of film it made me really want to delve deep into everything about it, and to think it was one if its first about and man with a mental issue and he broke boundary's but they worked so well.