Film Analysing for Research::

Marnie - Alfred Hitchcock (1964)::

• Dramatic/tension (violins) building music that moves to lighter, softer romantic music ( images look illustrated)
• opening scene and credits shown on pages of a book and pages turn to reveal the next. ( book technique indicates the film is a story)
• Starting scene back of woman - close up  of back ( camera follows behind then watches her walk away)
• Next scene is of a man describing a woman
• Another close-up  of woman's back and bag (still not seen her face)
• Close-up of suitcases being packed the a close - up of inside a bag then wallet ( several close-ups)
• Finally see her face (changed appearance)
• Close- up of key dropping into grid
• Over the shoulder and reverse shot 

• Genre indicated by words shown and the soundtrack
• Music then goes to more traditional thriller sound, anxious -  slows down again
• Music cuts - the extreme close up of the yellow handbag under arm of woman in tweed suit.
• bright yellow handbag- to stand out and show it significance
• Screen - filled but lighting suggests its morning and outside
• Only sound is heels/stilettos on the floor 
• camera and figure moving in unison (tracking shot)
• large shift in sound (contrast) loud violins to heels on the floor
• gradually figure and place that it is set is revealed. 
• clues given through hair outfits and props - enigma of who the woman is 
• Urban location due to background 
• walking along red line might indicate she is being funneled to something/ trap?
• Dramatic speech 'robbed' - links with woman makes you assume she's robbed something
• immediate cut to new set/place
• cut to empty safe - close - up, fills the screen
• Indication of office - door, files and safe, where he's stood and speech stops to show his importance 

Vertigo - Beginning Credits::

• Slow music played in the background
• An extreme close up of half a face (Girl aged around twenty - we don't see her eyes) - background is black
• Black and white image
• Camera zoomed into one eye ( possibly right eye)
• Black and white scene then changes to a red - could indicate death, blood, passion, hell, danger etc.
• The girl's facial expression does not change - eyes are the only thing that move > indicates she may be frightened, worried, lost, anxious etc.
• Title then appears from her eye starting from far away and then gradually getting larger. 
• Title then disappears and a spiral starts to enlarge while spiraling in her eye - signifying hypnotism, dizziness, a sense of falling into a black hole.
• Names start to appear while the spiraling graphic technique continues in the background. 
• The music is very dramatic and the volume increases at certain paints then decreases at others - signifying a shocking feeling or as if someone has jumped up behind you and frightened you. 
• The spirals are coloured but contrast between hot and cold colours to create a feel of awkwardness or anxiousness
• Then ends by going back to the girl's eye still in red 
• music increases to create suspense
• Then fades to black - don't know anything about the girl - create suspense enigma and tension