Deconstructing the shower sequence in Hitchcock's 'Pshyco' (1960)

Codes and conventions of the mise-en-scene
Lighting

Camera movements/angles
Sound
Diegetic
Non diegetic
Intertextual References

Representation of gender

Generic Signifiers

Significance of names:
Crane - birds in context of film are DEAD. Two menaces established.
Bates - indicates someone who lures prey; suggests Norman Bates is predatory - a hunter.

Close ups in the sequence when Marian and Norman are talking in the office, she gets a low angle shot, making him seem superior.

'A son is a poor substitute for a lover'.

Conversation revolved around love, death, sanity. Bates doesn't want to put his mum in an institute as he knows how horrible it can be, suggesting he has been in one himself.

Ambient - Natural

Voyuerism - He looks through the hole, watching someone. As we as the audience are watching them, over the shoulder.
He shows himself as a peeping tom.

Extreme close ups of eye, looking through the eye.

Shower sequence, close up of legs, showing vulnerable.

Natural sounds - Diegetic sounds - Rain/Shower.
Her in the shower represents her washing away her sins, having a shower in a bath/a confined space.

Plughole fades into a dead eye, camera rotates.
The camera moves from the eye to the money and then to the hosue.
Bird falls on the floor as Bates turns around, signifying Cranes' death.

Like her, her body bag is transparent.
As before in the hotel, this location is unglamorous and has old, horrid mops to clean up the mess.
Her new car becomes her hearse.
Noir lighting.
A lot of things get piled into the car boot, though there is a lot in it already.

A LOT of diegetic sound. Clanking of the pan. He chucks the money, not realiazing as it is in the paper, in the boot with the body. Takes the car to a desolate place.