Analysis of Auteurs Thriller openings

The Birds

Camera shots

Mid shots. full body shots and panning are mainly used in the opening sequence. This is to show to use her focus what she’s looking at and how the other characters and seeing her.

Editing

The editing speeds up as the seen progress but it’s still a slow cut between the characters this lets the audience see all the detail. In the seen.

Sound

We can hear the birds chirping in the store and it’s a loud background nose to have in a seen showing the size and granger of the store.

There is no music or other nose except the dialog and the birds fouling your attention on them specifically.

Lighting

The store is well light and has lots of exotic birds showing that there all very expensive and that higher class people can only afford them higher class like her.

Props costume set

She is portrayed as a stereotypical B or A class person with lather and fur close and expensive sports car and a refined and expensive taste. She not only higher class but she thinks she beater higher up than everyone. And she lies thinking she’s smarter that everyone but she gets tangled in her lies and gets caught. 

~HS