Marnie analysis

As the film begins the beginning titles and company logos are shown through the use of visual effect, in this case the use of turning pages of a book gives the viewer th

e hint that this story is based on a novel.

Some pragmatic music calms down when the title of the film is shown then the music picks up and calms again, this is continued for a while to build tension.  Then all of a sudden, all the music stops and the film picture begins. From this point onward there is only diegetic sound coming from the actions seen on screen.

The diegetic sound is begun with the sound of high heels from a woman walking. This sound also gives us the idea that this woman is all on her own seeing as though there are no other noises to be heard from all around. however we do not see the woman's face which creates an enigma to who she is.

We now see everything in the scene which gives us the image of the full mis en scene.

The use of the hand bag prop tells us that it is a significant object in the scene. This significance is emphasised from the visible bright yellow colour of  the bag, and the tight grasp the woman has over the bag she's carrying.

We know that the character visible to the audience is a woman from the clothing e.g. the hat, coat and also judging by the sound her high heels.

The establishing shot shows us that this character is in a train station in the city. we know that she is in the city because of the gas shutter clearly visible in the background that would be found commonly in large community's, in this case the city. Also this shot has converging lines to aid with drawing the viewers eye to the woman slowly walking away from the camera. furthermore, we could also determine the weather and maybe even the season of which this scene is set, we can do this by looking at her clothing, she is wearing a tweed coat and scarf which are tell-tale signs that the weather is cold, meaning it could be Autumn/Winter time. The camera movement is also a key element to drawing attention to the woman and the bag e.g. using tracking to follow the woman/bag tightly and then slowly stopping to allow her to get further ahead and to show some of her surroundings for and establishing sh

• The woman looks to be going somewhere at this point as she stops and puts down a suit case and is waiting at the train.
• The music completely stop's in this scene, cuts from first scene straight to a close up of a man saying: 'Robbed'. He  points at the safe with a direct eye line match to show where the money was stolen from. He then informs the other characters how much money was stolen. At this point we begin to solve the enigma of what was in the yellow bag; the stolen money.
  

Shortly afterwards the same man tells us who the person was that stole the bag, Marian Holland While. He repeats the name of the woman three times. By doing this he is addressing the audience making sure they know who it was who stole the money and to apply a name to the female character from the first scene even though we only saw her from behind. Also his description of the woman who stole the money suggests that him and her had some form of relationship or that he has or had some form of interest in her.

After this, a tall man enters the scene. We can tell that he is of more significance than the other characters because he takes up most of the screen as well as him being very tall which demonstrates power.

 During these conversations, there has been use of a shot reverse shot format which is used a lot in converstaions that are significant to the film. 

Then it cuts to a shot where the woman who appears to have stolen the money as she walks from the behind the camera down a hall way which looks like its in a hotel because there is a bell boy which suggest he works for the hotel, the bellboy is carrying to big parcels for this dark haired woman, as they walk away from the camera. There are also loads of doors which suggest they are hotel rooms. Then Alfred Hitchcock appears in the shot because he appears in all his films.

Shortly afterwards there is a scene where a woman ius washing out hair dye which suggests that the person who robbed the money is ttrying to change her identity as we also see close up shots of a different I.D . We see her face at the end of the scene. She drops a key which gives us the thought that it is the safe key from which the money was stolen from.