Product Research: Se7en (1995)

I really enjoyed the opening for Se7en as it really gives an atmosphere to the start of the film. It shows some sort of creation, a plan is coming into action. It lets the audience think of what it maybe could be about.

The scene starts slow and a metronome starts to tick, causing a beat, almost like a heartbeat, very sinister. The shots then increase to a faster pace and the electronic sounds starts creating a weary and obscure atmosphere. This then builds up to a crescendo of sounds, screams, thick noises, zaps, production/factory sounds, weird noises. That get faster and faster, creating a beat and its very repetitive, with a loud bass behind. These come together to produce a very intense song to go with the intense shots. pages turning, production pictures, writing in black ink, cutting, sticking, shadows, pictures, photos of dead, injured, tortured. Its all very intense and holds a lot of thriller. The threading of the pages together, to bring it all together.

Throughout this is all done, with a jolted, post production effect, its very obscure and hard to see what is actually being filmed, as the editing is very fast paced and it is very distorted, unknown and murderous, but you get a sort of sense. The music brings the shots together creating a really good opening sequence as we dont know a lot about what is going on or who the person is and why they are doing this.