- The production company logos go past
- Heavy use of lines converging on the screen shows us that this is a part of a theme for the movie.
- The text for the beggining credits follows these converging lines either up and down or left and right including the most important name "Alfred Hitchcock" tthis ells the audience that this is a film made by the famouse Alfred Hitchcock.
- There is emphasis on the title of the film through use of more lines. They have used arrows pointing north comming off the word "north" and arrows both pointing north and west on the word "north-west". This has been done to enhance the the tltle of the film and also to fit in with the theme of lines.
- A high pitched, loud, orchestral soundtrack used with the scurrying noise of strings and the rather overpowering sound of brass trumpets with the low deep bass drums that carry through the rate of the music which also makes the veiwer excited as the bbet is faster that their heart beat. This gives us a sence of rush and hurry to the movie and creates tension.
- The visuals then change, and the converging lines at the beggining turn out to be windows of the side of a tall building or skyscraper, reflecting the fast moving traffic on the road below with yellow taxi's - Establishing shot of New York e.g. skyscrapers and yellow taxi's.
- The text at this point is still moving in lines, this time mainly following the direction of the moving traffic, giving emphasis to the sence of rush to the film.
- the scene then dissolves to pedestrians walking of the pathway in a rather similar order to the fast moving traffic on the road previously. - this shot was filmed from above by using a peice of equiptment called a Jib.
- The next shot is of a vortex of people walking down to the sub-way, formally dressed going somewhere. they all swarm together chlostrophobicaly carrying out this sense of haste and rushing.
- the shot cuts to more people walking down a different street as a bus goes past. with everything still rushing arround.
- The shot then changes again to people walking down stairs continuously making giving us a sence of rush happening everywhere.
- in the next shot people are made to look like animals, using uncivilised behavior e.g. two women fighting over a cab.
- And even an appearance of Hitckcock himself missing a bus.
- the soundtrack then becomes diagetic ( from the actions on the screen).
