Vertigo analysis.

Titles

The titles in the sequence are used to introduce the actors and job roles of the cast. the actors appear in the order of relevance from the most important to the least starting with James Stewart and moving on through the rest of the cast, it then moves onto the crew leading with the least important and continuing onto the most important which is the director Alfred Hitchcock.

The titles are using a white serif font against a black background this is to give the film a serious feel to it and give the audience clues to the fact that the film will be for mature audiences not for children.

Sound

The sound in the opening sequence to vertigo is made up of dark low orchestral tones with higher pitched notes to make the audience feel uncomfortable.

 They use a sting in the close up of the lips, this is done to create angst and worry among the audience as it is intended to make them feel as if something is about to happen.

Mise-en-scene.

In the opening sequence to vertigo there is a red filter used, it is put over the eye of the woman on screen. the red filter can be used to represent a number of different clues some of which could be, death, blood and emergency. 

      by putting the filter over an extreme close up of the woman's eye it is indicating that she is in danger and she is looking around for the reason of the audience's worry.

Cinematography

There is a large amount of extreme close ups in the  opening sequence to Vertigo, this is done in such a way that the only other thing that you see other than a black screen this adds to the effectiveness of the woman's face as the audience are concentrating on the very little detail that has been put into the shot.

In this particular shot the woman has been instruced to look away from the camera, this is causing the audience to start thinking about why she is scared causing the audience to worry.