Tuesday 12 January 2010

Vertigo opening sequence...

Here are some of our notes on Vertigo. We've summarized them and have thought what makes it a classic thriller. The film was made in 1958 by Alfred Hitchcock and still this day still influences many up coming thriller films.
notes:

The fragmented female face, the eyes, lips and nose. This a very common technique that thriller films use as women characters become objectified in thrillers and usually become the target for the 'bady'

The non-diegetic sound doesn't really know where it's going and it always goes back to the same sound. Its a repetitive cycle of music that spirals up and down in note/tonal range.

The spinning images that is throughout the opening sequence is mimicking the feeling of when a person feels sick and 'dizzy' when their high up.. ties in nicely with the title of the film 'Vertigo'.

The colour scheme is dark and consists of mainly reds, blacks, blues, purples and greens. Mainly suggesting that the film being a thriller will have dark issues and be scary to watch?!

The credits running through the sequence hits you one by one, you never quite known when they will hit you, which already is creating suspense.. perfect for is genre thriller!


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