Film analysis

Seven
This is a film about two detectives' hunt for a serial killer who is murdering people and justifying the crimes by absolution for the worlds ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The two detectives try and track down the serial killer who chooses his victims bases on the Seven Deadly Sins. Together, the two detectives trace the murderers every step, witnessing the aftermath of his horrific crimes one by one as the victims increase, all while moving closer to a gruesome fate neither of them could have predicted.

In the opening of seven it immediately creates a suspenseful atmosphere by showing someone turning pages of a book, however you cannot see what's written inside the book creating some sort of mystery for the audience. However it does show a hand that then is blurred out to create this uncertainty of the character for the audience. The lighting at this point its used perfectly with bright light focused on the pages of the book but behind the book is very dim and dark which relates to the way the camera is focused on the top of the book so you can clearly see the pages turning but the actual surface of the pages blurred creating a sense of mystery. As what is being shown is a book it connotes the idea that the character  who is reading the book is intelligent. The music in the background while the book is being shown at the beginning of the credits uses thunder like sounds which are repetitive throughout provoking the audience to feel tense while watching. Then what is shown is the company that is being represented (New line cinema) is it faded onto the screen. The writing has a hand written in ink so it looks messy which is then edited to flash to bold creating that suspense. The credits then fade out to a pitch a black screen that displays 'An Arnold Kopelson Production' The font colour is white to make it stand out against the dark lighting and to suggest that there are protagonists in this film as well as antagonists. The font type is really well done as it differs from bold to very thin to create an a dark and unnerving style but to show inconsistency and to perhaps tell us something about the personality of this mysterious figure and connote that he is doesn't have a clear pattern to him.
         The editing in this opening is fast-paced and consists of several dissolve transitions, which are used to create a sense of disjointedness which can be represented through the drawing of the hands which are deformed. It consists of many extreme close ups of tools which aren't also identifiable leaving the audience in mystery, some shots are flashed onto the screen so that audience can barely see them reinforces this. Further more I repetition of close up shots intrigue the audience with very little detail and distance the audience by not showing any wider shots that would give a clearer view of the character. Within the whole opening there is a textured effect which gives the sequence a washed-out, sepia like tone sometimes black and white. The colours used connotes a lack of feeling especially when we see the shot of the man scraping of his skin on his fingers with a blade; flashes od red appear connoting violence which can relate to the tools being shown. These connotations create a sense of foreboding for the story's dark matter