1. Psycho
It took a full week to complete, using fast-cut editing -by George Tomasini- of seventy eight pieces of film and seventy camera setups, in a forty five second impressionistic montage sequence, and inter-cutting slow-motion and regular speed footage. ... She lies bleeding on the cold, naked floor; with the shower nozzle still spraying her body with water at this point the soundtrack resembles soft rainfall. ... The drain dissolves into a memorable close-up of Marion's dead-still eye. The camera pulls back up from the lifeless, staring eye, which was freeze-framed and frozen at the start of...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate