Marnie - 1964
Alfred Hitchcock - associated with Horror/Thriller
Opening shows the credits in a book style, baring in mind this is an adaptation of a well known novel.
The opening credits are in the order -
- production company
-main actors
-director
and the continue in order of importance or input.

The first scene shows a close up of a bright yellow handbag that stands out due to the surroundings being rather dull, this makes us as viewers instantly wonder what the importance is of this bag.
Misc en scene, (Everything in the scene) is very important in this first opener because it really helps your assumptions on the character you see before you as you dont see his/her face, adding to the mystery even more.
The office scene just as Sean Connery enters we see an example of visual hierarchy, Mr Strutt gives up his position of power (in the office) by moving out of it and over too Mr Ruttland, showing Sean's character is of some importance.
There is enigma created by the fact that we still haven't seen the woman's face, the long build up too it made me as viewer anticipate it very much.
The scene in the hotel room is interesting, the shot shows the full room then gradually zooms onto the bed where her two suitcases are, showing she is filling a new one with new clothes and less carefully throwing older clothes into an old suitcase, again the yellow bag sticks out, again asking the question what is its importance...
The bag is then opened and the stolen money is revealed, confirming what is insinuated by the film and viewers assumptions.
She is in the bathroom washing dye out of her hair, crescendo is used to create tension and the music climaxes as her face is finally revealed.
we see her choosing from a selection of id's, this shows straight away she has done this before and will do it again, The music is quite quiet and builds to a climax from her choosing her id too her stripping her hair colour, shots that are all linked to her identity.

Runner

Here is the continuity exercise our group produced, we feel it is not very good at all and could be improved in a lot of ways. The ways in which we could improve it are things such as a different range of shots. More importantly we need too think about the fundamentals of continuity and apply them to this to make it a much better film.