Vertigo Opening Sequence/ World Cinema Thriller

Vertigo was made in 1958 and is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The opening sequence in the film is a close up of a women's face, it then zooms into her eye. The music used is a classic thriller soundtrack of a high pitched violin with a repeated loud distorted sound. When the camera zooms into the women's eyes her face looks worried and scared as if she was has just been kidnapped. The camera then zooms into one of her eye's, when this happens the background turns into a red blurred effect. The women's pupil begins to turn and move in a swirled motion this is done by multi coloured graphic effects. Throughout this whole scene credits have been flashing on the screen in all different transitions. Once the credits have been completed the screen turns black and it opens to a scene of a rooftop police chase of a mysterious man running away and a policeman and another man chasing him. The establishing shot shows that the scene is set on a rooftop in a large city. The only lights are the city lights. The music then speeds up into a more fast paced sound with the continuous repeated sound being longer. There are also guns shots. The victim then jumps onto a slanted rooftop and the policeman follows. The other man with the police man then jumps and falls grabbing onto the gutter. The police man sees this and tries to help the man however the policeman falls off the rooftop with the other man still hanging off the rooftop. There are many thriller conventions used in this opening sequence. The high pitched violin sound with the distorted tone makes the thriller engaging. The close up of the women's scared and worried face makes the audience ask questions. There are many enigma's in this opening sequence like "Why is the police man chasing a man in a white jacket?" and "Why the women is scared and worried". The police chase and gun shots are both thriller conventions that also extinguishes the difference between thriller and horror.

Analysis Of Potential Thriller Titles

Potential Thriller Titles:
.The Disappearance of Elizabeth Smith
.Captured
.Seized
.Stolen
.Hijack

Class feedback.

Variety of blog posts.
- have a good variety.

Appropriate visual aids.
- good use of visual aids but could use more to break up big blocks of writing.

Appropriate use of technical vocabulary.
- clear vocabulary however could use more technical language.

Quality of posts : content, explanations and clarity.
- very thorough and a lot of information.

Development of ideas/stages.
- good use of headings, development throughout posts.
- developed the poster idea well showing different stages of developing the idea and the stages to the work.

lesson by lesson diary progress.

 28th february - Group worked on blogging and film analysing.
2nd march - Charlotte worked on editing our footage. The rest of the group worked together on analysing films, creating blog posts and discussing ideas for our music.
3rd march - Victoria worked on editing some of our blog posts. Charlotte carried on editing our final footage. Naomi and Emma did research into world cinema thrillers and analysed these. Daisy was absent. 
7th march - gathered class feedback and posted on the blog. started to work towards the changes we could make within our blog posts. Vic and Daisy posted the feedback from the class. Emma, Charlotte and Naomi posted how we are going to use the feedback.
9th march - Naomi was working on our storyboards. Daisy was working on world cinema blog posts and Victoria was producing music. Charlotte and Emma were absent. 
10th march - naomi and emma were working on storyboards and vic and daisy were working on credits. Charlotte absent. We uploaded our rough cut opening sequence  
14th march - Naomi and Victoria worked on the blog and gathered feedback from Amar and Tanya. Emma and Daisy were absent. 
16th march - Vic, Daisy, Emma and Naomi filmed some more footage and continued to edit the film. Charlotte was absent.
17th march - finished off editing the film - charlotte took control but victoria made the credits and Daisy worked on the blog.
21st march - finished off the editing. Daisy was absent.