Camera Shot/Angle/Movement
There are many camera shots, angles and movement in the scene such as;book- close up, hands- birds eye view, hands/fingers/razor- extreme close up, images/photographs- extreme close up, books- close up/birds eye view, writing- side on/close up, person writing- extreme close up, photography images- close up/high angle, cutting/celotape- high angle/close up, pictures-close up/birds eye view, pages flickering-side on view/close up, writing- extreme close up/ point of view shot, spilt shoot- 1- writing- close up/point of view, 2- pictures(red)- close up- pictures- point of view shot, ‘the book’- extreme close up/ cutting to each different picture- needle/threading needle- extreme close up, sewing- close up, books- panning/close up
Sound
non- diegetic sound is used such as; soundtrack/backing track, this sounds like a heartbeat, it uses the sound of a typewriter, this may be diegectic as there is scenes of writing but the scenes of writing contain hand written pieces. ‘Se7en’ also uses the sound of scratching, which may also sound like a scream, this creates a lot of tension for the audience. As the sequence goes on, the music gets faster and more rockier, and the scene comes to an end the only lyrics on the scene says “you bring me closer to god”
Editing
The editing uses a lot of quick cut shots. This creates tension and for the whole of it as you do not really know what is happening; as the shots is going so fast, this means you always having to think about what is happening.
Mise en Scene
There is not much range of lighting within this scene, it starts with a black and white and a beige colour. And then towards the end we see it go into a red colour. All of these colours give a quite dark and gloomy feeling to the whole opening. We do not get to any characters fully, but we can establish who the main character maybe will be, although we do not see the face of this character we see his/her hands throughout. We see the scene as being set in a basement of dark room. There seems to be photos which are being developed, the character is all analysing articles and photos, of who or what we do not no.
Characters
In the opening scene we see one character; but we do not establish who this character is as we do not see him properly. All we see is his finger tips. because the character surrounds himself with images and objects of death; we can assume that he is the antagonist.
Locations
In this opening we do not really establish a location, we do start to assume that it may be in a room away from people, maybe a cellar or basement
Narrative/Plot
In Se7en there is no speech, we only can here the music. This again is different to other conventional opening. This creates a mysterious feel as we do not know what the film is going to be about.
Themes
The themes for Se7en we would guess are crime or murder. we think this as we see images of death, blood, needles, razors which he uses to cut himself and the colour throughout the scene is red, which suggests blood and violence.
Visual Style
Because of the editing, where it moves very fast it stands out from other openings in films. also with the music it is hard to identify what is going on. The visual style is always moving and they’ve used the colour or red to show the theme of blood and violence.
Genre
Se7en is a thriller film as it contains the sterotypical thriller conventions such as; crime or murder, a complex narrative with either false paths, clues and resolutions. It also has the thriller conventions such as extraordinary event happening in ordinary situations.
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