Se7en Evaluation

Se7en


Camera Work
The Camera Work in the opening title sequence in the movie 'Se7en' is very dark, shady and stays very close up to the action that takes place on screen. In the title sequence we see a man or presumed man adding a news reel in to a scrap book and writing in to a diary. The camera work is done in a way that you can not see the man's face, only his hands and what he see's and does with his hands, an example of this is when we see him removing a blade out of an old style razor. These clips show us seemingly random videos, like he's fiddling with a razor blade. If you look close enough you work out that hes not just fiddling, he scraping off his fingerprints, him being the "bad guy" in the film, this is quite clever.


Editing
The clips are put together very much like how montage is put together. This montage includes quite a wide variety of clips which could be described as abstract. The clips range from things like cutting fingerprints off to dipping a tea bag. Just talking about the editing sounds creepy, this is exactly what this thriller was going for, and they did it well.

Sound
The music from the scene, is an adaptation of the song "Closer to god by Nine Inch Nails". Not that you can really tell what song it is, is just comes out as a beat, with ambient sounds being played throughout, the sounds being nails down a blackboard. Then a robot type voice, straining to talk, the sound of a tape being re-winded fast. A tapping sound, like somone typing on a typewriter. All of these ambient sounds make the sequence very unnerving and freaky, they put you on edge, and give you the feeling that anything could happen at any moment.

Mise-en-scene
I've talked about some things in the scene but here are some others, plasters on the just been cut fingers, pictures of people's faces being scribbled out by black pen. A book that's being written in very small writing.

Titles
The titles are not one i think many people would have seen before, there again very abstract. They seem to come in with the beat from the music. The font looks like it's been handwritten, not neat and like its been scratched in.



Written By:
George Marino,
Jace Exton,
Henry Jones,
Sassie Risino