Titles and Credits

The Orphanage
Credits were incorporated but also set in their own separate narrative. Showed childrens' hands ripping away wallpaper to show credits beneath. This indicates that there are secrets to be uncovered at some point in the story. Also, the colour of the wallpaper was red underneath, suggesting some kind of underlying horror hidden beneath the more dull grey facade.

Vertigo
A very optical style of presenting credits, the patterns swirl out of the blackness, get closer and give the sensation of falling. The first shot is an ELS of a woman's face, this shocks the viewers and draws them in to the story. The credits themselves are in bold and are very clear - it is obvious that the makers of the film want to be known. The woman's face then turns to red (obviously, a colour traditionally associated with thrillers due to its connotations of blood, violence, anger etc) and the shot is an ELS of her eye which is quite unsettling. The next title then appears from the pupil of her eyes, and gradually comes further towards the screen until it fills the whole frame. For its time this would have been a very advanced technique and would have added to the eerie feel of the opening.