Psycho The Murder By Bernard Beckmann Analysis

As he reaches the top of the long narrow stairs, he is suddenly faced with a microphone. With a nervous look and sweaty palms, he slowly makes his way to the mic then stops. The microphone is black and cold to touch. Then he looks up to find that he is in front of hundreds of people watching him like a hawk. For two or three minutes, he focuses on the large patient crowd who are anxious to listen to him. Before he begins, he suddenly realizes that he is in front of thousands of people instead of hundreds. His eyes widen as the butterflies in his stomach begin to swirl madly in a circle. Eventually he starts to talk. “Hello everyone” pause “I w-w-w-would” pause “would like to, um, I w-would like to introduce myself. My name, name is Alex”. For

Beckmann getting the kitchen ready then back again to her little girl trying to get home. Her daughter, Elsie Beckmann, is now bouncing a ball down a sidewalk. As the ball bounces, it makes a noise to a beat similar to the song “Psycho The Murder” by Bernard Herrmann. The song “Psycho The Murder” by Bernard Herrmann is a fast paced song that sounds like someone is stabbing something, therefore when Elsie bounces here ball it is a warning that she is the next victim. Elise then proceeds to bounce the ball on a wanted sign and a shadow of a man appears on the wanted sign. He whispers “What a pretty ball!”(). By referring to the ball, he shows the audience that he is the murder because the ball was conveying a stabbing sound and the man liked the

All you can hear is “Extra! Extra! Extra!”(). Then suddenly you see people handing out newspaper and people huddled around a man with newspapers. The extra being repeated multiple times in a loud shouting voice is there to grab everyone’s attention. Every time someone said extra, more and more people were wanting to know what the crime is and who the murder could be. Then scene fades to a man writing a something while whistling the familiar tune of “In the Hall of the Mountain King”. By whistling the familiar tune, the audience knows that he is the murder and that he is planning something bad because the last time he whistled this tune, a little girl died. The scene quickly goes back to the crowd of people out on the streets. Everyone becomes quiet as a man reads the news report. As he reads the report, the scene changes again to a bird’s eye view of a group of men also reading the same news report. Having both the public and the criminals read the news report at the same time shows how panic and anxiety raised