Click on https://nofilmschool.com/2016/02/every-cut-weapon-martin-scorsese-editing-psycho
page, and watch and study the videos it contains.
2) Then watch the famous shower scene from PSYCHO.
https://youtu.be/0WtDmbr9xyY
Assignment prompt: In a 750-word post (minimum—it may need to be longer to cover the topic in sufficient detail), address the three subject below:
- Summarize the main focus of the web page as a whole, Scorcese’s points about Hitchcock’s editing, and Hitchcock’s own comments about the editing in PSYCHO.
- To what extent do you feel the shower sequence in particular participates in and departs from the specific techniques and transitions of continuity editing, as defined in your textbook? How and why?
- Watch the sequence with sound and then watch it with the sound turned off. How do sound and image work together in this scene?
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