Vertigo opening analysis : Joshua Jeffs

Vertigo opening analysis 

The clip starts off by showing the company idents and playing tense music to set the atmosphere, it then goes to a persons face and is the frame is at an extreme close up to their lips, It then shows an actors name as the music reaches a high point. This creates tension and shows the stars of the film, the stars are in a bold font that is hollow, the stars names are by themselves showing their importance.
It then goes to the persons eyes which then look left then right which is a sign of worry, another stars name shows as the music plays a louder note, it then zooms in further to the persons right eye which then has a red light put on it, Red portrays danger, and Vertigo comes out of the persons eye.
A swirl pattern then comes out of the eye and takes over the frame, it then shows the co-stars in a large block structure in a smaller font, this shows them as less important.The swirl patterns start far away and then zoom in towards the camera, This makes the viewer feel like they are falling towards the swirl and this fits the pattern of the film which is the fear of heights.After showing all of the co-stars it fades back to the persons eye and shows that it was directed by Hitchcock showing importance to his name.