Opening to Rear Window

Tall buildings cover the majority of the grey sky, over towering the audience and filling the screen with brick red. this gives the feeling of vastness and imprisonment to the viewer, who sees this scene from a set of windows. This imagery is important for setting the story as our protagonist who is a disabled but professional photographer, called L. B. Jefferies/ Jeff who views the world, restricted, from his window and all the grim events that he witnesses after his wife's murder.
We then zoom in to see what lies beyond the rear window. One of the first things we see is a cat filmed from a faraway high angle shot. This makes the small creature look vulnerable and small. The camera then tilts up so we can observe how big the environment really is. The setting is a normal set of apartments but because of the way it's shot we get the idea that it's an entrapping and threatening place to be, we learn to see the area, not from the view of an outsider but, as one of its neighbour.