Marnie Opening Sequence
The First thing we see is a book with the company name and the directors and actors, the reason they have done this book theme is because this film is based on a novel so the page turning transition is there to reinforce the viewer that this film is based on a novel, and when the book is turning the pages it has is playing some music which keeps building the tension but then bringing it down and when the title is shown it goes calm and then turns into diegetic sound which is like background noise and not noise played over the film its an ambient noise.
Then it cuts to a close up of someone carrying a bright yellow handbag and they are dressed in a grey outfit, with black hair and they are carrying a large suitcase as well, and it appears that this person is at a train station as you can see tracks, then it cuts to a man in a suit who immediately said robbed and looks and points at a safe and then it cuts to a close up of an empty safe they use a eye line shot here which is were when the actor looks at something and then it cuts to what he's looking at.
The next shot is a close up shot of the guy who was robbed and he describes how much was stolen and who did it when he is saying who did it he says her name twice so we know the detail and know the name of the possible main character also they say it twice incase anyone viewing miss heard it to make sure they definitely know the name, then he goes on to describe this lady when he is describing her it uses reverse shots so when he says something its on him and then it goes to a shot of the police and then reverses back to him.
And then a man walks in and he is taking up most the shot so you can tell he is an important character and when the other man walks up to him he is looking up to him which suggests he is a higher ranking or a more important person as he is dominant in the shot, then it tracks them to a private conversation they have when they turn there backs on the police because they want us to here this because it might be important information.
Then it cuts to a shot were she walks from the behind the camera down a hall way which looks like its in a hotel because there is a bell boy which suggest he works for the hotel, the bellboy is carrying to big parcels for this dark haired woman, as they walk away from the camera (Alfred Hitchcock appears in the shot because in all his films he appears in them) also as they walk down the hall it changes from diegetic sound to non diegetic sound.
The next shot is off the lady in her room packing two suitcases and unboxing some clothes and putting them in neatly the other she is just throwing clothes this gives me a feeling that she is throwing her old identity away and packing her new one, then it zooms in on the bag, these days zooming when filming isn't the best technique but it works in this scene, then she tips loads of money out of the bag this is a key shot as we now know she is the one that robbed that place.
Then it goes to a close up of her purse and she has many different ID's which suggests that she does these kind of tricks a lot because she many fake ID's that she uses to get a job and then rob the place and then changes her ID.
Then it cuts to a close up of this woman washing out the dye in her hair which shows us that she has been dressing differently to how she really looks so she doesn't fit the match of the suspect, then we see her face for the first time the reason we only see her face 5 mins in is it builds a little bit of suspense of what she looks like.
The next shot is a close up of her putting the old scruffy clothes bag into a locker of some sort this shows that she's dumping her old identity there and ditching it, then it shows her holding a key and she looks at a drain grill, this makes the audience immediately know what she's going to do and then another eye line shot is used because she looks at the grill and then its a close up of it., and then she drops the key into it.
