Thursday 11 November 2010

Analysis of a Saul Bass title sequence

For my analysis of an opening sequence, i watched the title sequence, made by Saul Bass, of Psycho. It starts with a series of horizontal and vertical lines, moving across the screen in harmony. whilst this is happening, the names of the cast and producers etc are shown between the lines. The lines came together horizonatally and vertically to form the words. Other lines carry letters, which when the lines meet, form a word also. This comes across as sneaky and suspicious, and makes me think that a character in the film is going to be someone that cannot be trusted. This also connotates that he is living two different lives. This is shown by the lines moving across and down, to meet. This could connotate that both his/her seperate lives are going to clash in the film, and that there is going to be some sort of conflict created by this.