The first image that you see is of the side if the face if a woman (shown below). In thrillers women are seen as quite vulnerable characters is this may indicate that people with vertigo feel very vulnerable. The fact that the camera then moves up to the woman's eyes and i think that eyes are a symbolic image as people suffering from vertigo can only suffer from it if they can see. The other images that the audience are subject to are spinning spirals and circles, to me, this represents falling which is a fear of a vertigo sufferer. It also makes the viewer feel slightly dizzy whilst looking at it so it kind of puts them into the shoes of someone with vertigo. These spirals are in all different colours but red is used most frequently and this colour connotes danger and is a convention of a thriller because of this connotation.
Music is played constantly throughout this sequence and it sounds very sinister, a piano is used to help create this effect. As it progresses the music becomes more jumpy, as it this the soft sounds of a piano one minute and the the sudden dramatic sounds of violins the next. These two sounds mix in the middle of the sequence showing the height of suspense. Suspense is also an important convention for a thriller, i think that the music in this sequence mainly builds it.
The camerawork is only simple in this opening sequence so all shots are just still apart from one at the beginning where the camera tracks sidewards to the womans face and then up to her eyes. The fact that the camerawork is simple means that the viewer will concentrate just on the images within the frame.
The opening credits appear in conjunction with the dramatic parts so it draws the attention of the viewer. The words are never shown in the centre of the frame or if they are then they will just be small words so the circling image is kept central and is focused on most of all.
Overall i think is connotes thriller but some of the main conventions are not included and i do not think that as a viewerr, you would be able to tell that the genre wad thriller just from the opening sequence, the only aspect that would give it away would be the colour red that is used.
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