Vertigo opening sequence.

The opening sequence starts off with an extreme close up of a woman's face, she's half in the left hand corner of the frame, and low key lighting is used. The characters face is really dark and shadowy. The camera stays on this character for a few seconds and then pans to the left of the frame until the character is in the middle of the frame. But the audience can still only see half the woman's face. The text used in this sequence is white and pretty plain. This colour used for the font is a contrast to the dark background. The font used is mainly outline text as the font is not a block color.

When the text appears the camera movement zooms into just the characters mouth. And then pan's up to the woman's eye's, the character looks scared and worried.

The font movement moves down from above of the frame and into the center of the frame. This opening sequence is a bit long, and slow pace compared to the others, and audiences may get bored of watching.

Posted by Jo.