Analysis of a Saul Base opening sequence

Analysis of the Opening Title Sequence of Vertigo

This is one of the many opening title sequences by Saul Bass. Saul Bass also created the movie poster for this film. In the start of this opening title sequence it is a close up of a woman's face and then going into a extreme close up of her eyes and her looking around. Saul Bass use's titles well in this opening sequence because the titles appear in a good position on the screen. The whole sequence pauses as the titles come up. The whole scene goes into a red blood like tint while it is still on the extreme close up on the eye. Then the title of the movie comes out of the eye. Then one swirl appears in the eye and then the eye disappears and then its only the swirl on the screen. Then after the swirls appear it then fades back into the eye. Saul Bass has created a lot of enigma codes for the audience. He has made his title sequence to fit the thriller genre by inserting these enigma codes.