The use a woman close-up gradually moving upwards until we
have a full screen of her eyes in which she starts to look around her which
connotes that she is worried. We do not know who the woman in the opening
sequence yet but that’s a good thing in order to draw the audience in more. Her
lips twitch nervously, introducing anxiety and a close examination of the
characters physical appearance.
The female character is clearly on edge and not comfortable
with the viewer’s scrutiny. This scene introduces some more key conventions of
the thriller genre: anxiety, paranoia and the notion of looking. Being watched
and being seen watching someone else are also conventions of thrillers.
Her eye is zoomed in an illusion effect when the titles
appear on screen. It helps to create the atmosphere and the feeling of the movie
which is suspense and tension which is a positive representation of a thriller
as it contains the conventions of a thriller but the representation of the
woman is negative as she is being shown as helpless, in a panic and scared; they
are portraying a common stereotype of women as the victim. They’re not showing
her in a positive light which would be going against the stereotype and portray
women as strong and independent. It then
zooms in one of her eyes which the screen goes red and the colour red
represents danger which can connote a shift in the mood.
After the zoom in of the eye, a rotating, spinning, spiral
appears from the centre of the eye, enlarging after every rotation keeping the
same circular shape of the eye. This is clever because the animations support the title of the movie because the word vertigo refers to dizziness. The titles in Vertigo are in a serif font that is bold and white, easily contrasting with the background. The background changes colour which emphasises the movie title.
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