Research: Thriller Genre (Tony Egan)

  The shower scene of 'Psycho' (Hitchcock, 1960) is one of the most iconic scenes in the Thriller Genre, Movie business. The film being produced in 1960, is the reasoning behind the black and white colour of the film.
  The film opens with an image of the lady, writing innocently in a notepad. The image accompanied by soft and happy sounding music. Then only a minute later, with the arrival of 'the psycho' while the women is in the shower - the music changes and the new music playing is very frantic and loud, perhaps mirroring the actions of the psycho.
 During the stabbing of the innocent women, by the psycho - the scene see's numerous jump cuts of angles on the women. This is a successful filmaking technique for a thriller genre as it really captivates the violence of a scene.

An image from the shower scene - 'Psycho'

Similarly to thr non-digetic sounds edited into the film, 'Psycho' - is the music edited into the opening title sequence 'The Sixth Sense' (Shyamalan, 1999). While the director has opted for a very dark contrast to the opening sequence - The music remains similar to that of 'Psycho' - frantic with the use of orchestrated instruments, capturing the spontaneity and tension of a thriller.

The film 'Taken' (Morel, 2008) also uses similar music in the 'Goodluck scene' - captivating the nature of orchestrated instruments. The scene also uses a very dark contrast to the scene. The film also rids of the rule of thirds, this creates a loss of structure to the camera work of the film.