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What questions does the title sequence raise?

FILM MUSIC COLOUR TITLES TRANSITION

Fast paced, jumpy Bright green, block Bold capitals Sliding, lines appear to be
ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S loud when trumpets colours Arrow facing upward random at first but are
NORTH BY NORTHWEST make an entrance, on N for North and left actually mapping windows to
(1959) frantic, orchestral, arrow on W for West, office buildings, busy city
overlaps lion’s roar aligned diagonally with reflected into windows, fast
QUESTION RAISED>WHO building, Alfred transitions- flies on and off
IS GEORGE KAPLAN? Hitchcock in large font screen
mentioned twice,
lead characters
mentioned
Scratchy, scary, eerie, Off colour, dull, muted, Jittery- moves around, Old film look- with lines,
DAVID FINCHER’S disturbances in black and white, dark cut and past effect, Images like patchwork- we
SEVEN (1995) between which reflects colours, occasional Small, flashes, create our own image,
what is happening in flash of red deformed-all over the montage- not a clear picture
the background, place- chaotic
twisted, white noise
type effect

Violins –fat paced, Alfred Hitchcock’s Sliding, lines, stripes coming


ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S jumpy, loud, scary, name appears twice, and going, goes with the
PSYCHO screechy, sense of title in large capitals music
being chased, frenetic

Slow, gloomy, violins, Capitals, white text, Fade in and out, reflection of
BRYAN SINGER’S sinister cast in alphabetical water/sea, simple
THE USUAL SUSPECTS order

QUESTIONS RAISED> HOW


DID THEY GET TO THAT
POINT?

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