Se7en Analysis

How does the trailer make 'Se7en' a thriller?
Music
-The music started slow then got faster towards the end, this also builds suspense.
-Metronome
  -It has diegetic sound of a clock ticking then it turns to non-diegtic sound.
    -The sound meant to represent time making the audience think that time is running out for the
     detectives.
Mystery
-Who is the killer? Why is he killing these people?
Suspense
-Who is he going to kill next? Are they going to catch him in time? One of the detectives looks likes he
  knows something but what?
Plot
-The clips are fast making the viewer constantly think about what is happening.
-The viewer gets the sense that something awful has happened but they don't know what it is also there
  is a sense that something awful is going to keep happening.
-The viewer gets a sense for the basis of the plot and this builds more mystery and suspense.

'Se7en' Opening Scene Notes
Music
-Music sounds like a beating heart.
-Things are being rubbed together that makes an unnatural sound that sounds like screaming.
-It speeds up when the clips get shorter.
-Heart beat sounds morphs into techno.
Visual
-Lots of iconic images.
-Frustrates audience because it keeps flicking to something that they cant see.
-Some taking notes on different things that either relate to the Seven Sins to God.
-Drowned in red, that could relate to a darkroom.
-The man who you can't look like a surgeon, especially with there skills and precision.
-Title are like celluloid films.

Analysis of the Opening Scene
Sound
-Starts out slow and gets faster, eventually morphing with techno.
-Non-digetic sounds of things being forced to make unnatural, some of which sounds like
 screaming.
Editing
-Short clips that flicker from one to the other.
-Dark or red contrast with the white writing.
Effects
-The flickering make the audience thinks that they are missing something.
-The red makes the audience unconsciously thinks about blood and its not until concentration do they
 associate it with anything else.
-The celluloid film effect gives the film an old feel, almost like the murder isn't up to date with modern
 technology but also it gives it this sense of mystery that goes with the music.
Expectations
-Its not how you would expect the opening sequence to be, you would expect to either see a murder
 taking place with the killer in the shadows or masked so that the audience doesn't see his face or
 someone finding a body and the police getting involved.
Titles
-The title were white that go in contrast with the dark background as white represents purity.
-The flickering titles are handwritten with no precision unlike the murder that is very accurate and
 precise, giving it the sense that they are rushed
Concept/ Idea
-I think that the idea of the opening sequence was to draw the audience in as it makes them ask
 themselves many questions as the whole things although it shows alot is mysterious.