Film Title: The film tiles are very unusual because of the way they are set out. Firstly they are very big and bold but at the same time very plain which is easy to read and understand for the viewers but this is understandable because the film was made in 1955. But the thing that is really odd about this film is that the tittles appear to go backwards in stead of forwards and I think this is really smart because it is odd and it makes the viewers think why is this happening and that is what a thriller is meant to do so straight away it is fitting its status as a thriller. Even though the text goes backwards when you first see it you will not realise this because it’s the first thing you see and it will first appear to be normal.

Setting/Location: The location is set in the middle of nowhere at first because the woman character is running but there in nothing behind or in front of her, which suggest that she is in the middle of nowhere. Even when she finally gets a lift from this stranger it would appear that they was driving for ages before they finally come across things with light that is normal to the viewers. The location that is set in adds to the scariness and terror of the audience because they would be thinking why is a woman running in the middle of nowhere with no shoes on and equally will make them think why is this happening and wonder what is going to happen next.

Costumes/Props: The first props we see is a car and it stay like this for quite a few minutes of the film and a woman in a rain jacket. This firstly suggest that there must be something wrong because you don’t normally se a woman with just a rain jacket on running down a lonely street adding to the eagerness of the audience to see what is going on. And secondly the car is the other prop and when the male actor pulls over after nearly crashing the first thing he says to the lady is ‘ you nearly wrecked my car’ this suggest that the car is quite important to this gentleman and may be a main prop throughout the film.

Editing/Camera Work: The first shot we see is a panning shot of the woman actor running with no shoes on and I think this is an excellent shot to use for the first shot because it straight away makes the audience think why is she running with no shoes on then immediately goes into a very close up and then we see the characters face that shoes us that she is a really terrified about something which makes the audience wonder what that might be.

Titles/Font Style: The font and title style is very big and bold which I thought was quite boring until I saw the way it was showing which was backwards which then made me think the is quite unusual and thought out good by the director because you don’t see titles like this in much movies. This was quite surprising seen the movie was made in 1955.

How The Opening Sets Up A Story: The movie is started by a lonely woman running down an empty road that looks like a highway by her self so straight away it makes us wonder what is going on in the movie. The audience already know before they watched the film that is a thriller but if they didn’t by starting of the movie like this it would be easy for a person watching this film to figure out that the movie was a thriller, which I think is really good. The start of the film also ads to the stereotype of the woman because we will know that most woman in a thriller would be victimised and so when we see her running by her self terrified of something this again adds to her stereotype of a scared and lonely woman in a film like this.

Genre: The genre of the film is a thriller and we can tell this by a number of things for example the text and titles in the film and the heavy breathing of the woman that we could clearly hear at the beginning of the movie. We can also tell this is a thriller because at the start of the movie a woman is running alone in a dark and lonely place which fits the type of film that we are watching which is a thriller.