Strangers on a Train
The opening scene starts off with a car driving into a train station with the camera panning whilst it goes past. You can tell that it is set in around the 1950’s/60’s era because it is in black and white, and the cars are so old fashioned. At the same time, you hear posh, old fashioned, non-diegetic music. The camera continues to pan whilst the man gets out of the car and walks into the train station. From the begging of the opening scene, until the very last second, the camera remains not showing any faces, just people’s legs and the backs of them when they walk away.
The scene in which the opening scene was set was a very busy place. This gives the audience the impression that it must be filmed at a train station because of the busyness, the small luggage, the announcements and the train tracks you see near the end of the opening scene. Normally, before you saw the train tracks, the audience would not know where the scene was set, but because of how they made it look and sound, the audience knew exactly where it was set. They used ‘point of view shot’ a few times in order for the audience to see what a certain character was seeing.
The music begins to get louder and louder and reaches a crescendo, which is the loudest part of a piece of music. This suggests that it is building up to something, and that something bad is going to happen. What I found really interesting was that there were no titles in the first minute and a half of the opening scene. Usually, the titles come straight away in the opening scene.
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