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Friday, 11 February 2011

Se7en- Film analysis



Film: Seven
Year realeased: 1995
Director: David Fincher
Famous Stars: Morgan Freeman & Brad Pitt

Sound: The score used in the opening scene of 'Seven' causes an atmosphere straight away, with a constant beat that almost follows the pattern of a beating heart. The sound seems very manufactered with sounds that seem to be stratches on a old record, when a significant name or image is being shown a sound of a small explosion can be heard over the music to create the state of mind of the character that we are being shown. This piece of music builds up tension and atmosphere throughout this opening credits, which adds to the audiences feelings and intises them to watch further. Throughout this opening scenes, there are a series of images that link nicely to the disturbed nature of the music, these images are linked with the typical sounds of the object that is being used aswell as the constant beat and odd scrathing sounds, these images sometimes triggers the change in music or the adding of the specific sound effects. These sound blips almost ditract the audiences attention at times and the images bring them back adding the typical thriller mystery and tension, towards the end of teh opening scene the music becomes a rock beat and a lot quicker.

Mise en Scene:We are intraduced to the film via a book with sunlight coming through the pages, immediatly this is intriguing and makes the audience what to know more,we see the shadow of a hand and as this hand moves acroos the page we are introduced to the distrubter name 'new line cinema' we then go to a black screen with white writing in a very abstract font immediatly showing the genre of the film with the contrast in black background and white font. We then get intoduced to several images of hands and instruments such as blades and other office equipment. As the last images fade we see flashes on numbers and letters and then the title of the film flashed quickly to build tension and mystery, the audience is then faced with some imgaes of a male scrapping his fingerprints off this immeduatly tells us that this is someone who knows and delved in crime often, this then contarcst with several images of the same man making a cup of tea and filing, which calms the audience in to a senzse of security by this chaacter carrying out these simple tasks. in the following 20-22 seconds the audience is faced with images of books pictures, writing that all seem to be in clean colours eg. white, red, black but all have fuzzy or hazy outlines. This all shows a crazy or disorted mind of the charcater that the audience will now want to know so much about.

Camera Work: During the opening scene for this film it does not show a large variety of shots as the tension and atmosphers i created by the secretcy within the extreme close up shots used throughout.Between the images which have been chosen to cause a large effect and the music which is very different and almost futuristic, the camera shots themselves can get lost and more focus is pushed onto the images. The camera occasionally pans across the screen but is always in extreme close up as to never expose the charcater at this point.


Editing:This film follows the normal trend of using dark, dim or brown coloured washes throughtout the film to inforce the fact that this film has been created with a thriller genre in mind. This causes a sinister feel as it becomes clear that alot of events happen in the dark or including shadows, the transitions are very quick and can often be replayed over 4 times in qucik consession to get the desired eery and racey atmosphere, a mixture of short and long shots are used to always grab and re-grab the audience attention but these scenes are not always put together.

Titles: The titles themselves are a very small part of the opening scene but are there enough to let the audience know important information, such as the director, production company and any major stars within the movie itself. They are set on a black backgorund in white abstarct writing in a small font, but by using a contarsting colours the font is not lost but pushed to the front of the screen even though the are sometimes flashed or set slightly to the left or right of the screen.

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