Saul Bass (Research and Planning)

 Saul Bass was an American graphic designer who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on many of his films. He worked on several opening titles for films such as Vertigo and North by Northwest. I have chosen Vertigo's opening sequence to look in closer detail.

 The opening starts with a persons eye being shown then the camera zooms in and the face disappears, then several random shapes come swirling out of the darkness and after several minutes the face reappears but this time the face is red whereas it was in black and white before the camera zoomed in on the eye.

 My response to this opening was that I felt tense because I was trying to work out what the different shapes could symbolise, but I was also mesmerised by the colours that were being used, when compared to the black and white eye that was shown before the camera zooms in and all the shapes and colours came towards the audience.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz46qS38OgM (This is the actual oepning sequence for Vertigo)

This is just one of the many openings he did for Alfred Hitchcock.