North by Northwest (Study)

North by Northwest (Opening Credits)



1) A green background, with connotation.
2) Lines cutting across the space, making the audience feel uneasy.
3) Lines are parallel, like a grid is emerging.
4) Production company, (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) sitting on the lines.
5) The music is bulding tension, orchestral soundtrack making it dramatic.
6) Main stars names are then shown, (Cary Grant) coming in at opposite directions.
7) Film title appears, with a graphical representation of the film, N points North and the T points West.
8) Green grid dissolves into a skyscraper, seeing reflection, through the windows, making it uncomfortable. (Rotoscoping)
9) Co-stars.
10) When the picture becomes more focused, the reflection off the windows is of yellow taxi's, indicating the city is New York. (Distorted Reflection)
11)Writers.
12) Music Composer (Bernard Hermann)
13) Director of Photography, the film stock is Technicolor.
14) Production designers, Art Director, Set Decorater, FX.
15) The film is in VistaVision, film editors, color consultant.
16) Dissolved from the front of a skyscraper to a ground level longshot, people moving, contempory setting.
17) People coming in and out of a building.
18) Movement that reflects the soundtrack.
19) People crowing down into a subway, reinforces there in New York. (Rush Hour)
20) Lines of people going down bannisters.
21) Associate producer.
22) Two middle aged women fighting for one taxi. (Dehumanising)
23) Cut it to a high angle shot. (Director)
24) Shows himself walking onto a bus.