Psycho

This image from Psycho conforms to its genre characters of a female victim, an attractive young blonde female, final girl and male gaze theory. Other conventions are sex and taboo, she has sex with a man who is divorced and they’re unmarried in the 1960s' historical context at the time it was a big taboo.

She is also seen in her underwear which at the start is white connoting her innocence. However, she has black underwear as she packs her clothes to leave with the money, connoting that her crime has corrupted her.

It is also conventional low key lighting and close up in this is to show fear of her getting caught by the police. The cinematography of a close up shows her emotions and the fear of what she has done, it also gives the audience an attachment to her as you fell her emotions. Also the weather is a pathetic fallacy, rain and dark matching her mood. The music in this scene adds suspense and panic due the quick pace of it. There is also extra-diegetic voiceover of Marion’s boss talking about where she might be. By using a close up alongside this you can tell her emotion and motive.