3. FRAME 1
• This is a close up of an open book being flicked
through but where it is or who is flicking
through it is shown. The titles are shown in the
bottom left corner. The title ‘new line cinema
presents’ appears and is slightly distaughted
showing the thriller theme. The frame is quite
dark and shadowed again suggesting the thriller
theme. Again just like in frame 2 one of the
corners in the frame has been blacked and in
this frame its on the left side of the book and
the lighting gets lighter across the screen.
4. FRAME 2
• In the second frame the title ‘a film by David Fincher is shown. This frame is a birds eye view of two
hands which have been drawn very dark on graph paper. The right side of the frame is shadowed black.
The title is like a white scratchy small font with the ‘film by’ layered. The David Fincher title stands out
clearly against the black part. Again the thriller theme is shown by the darkness of the shot. All of the
frames of the opening sequence fit together, there all sketched designs and books to suggest that
there's a character creating something. Also the font of the titles go with this ideas because the font is
like someone has sketched them.
5. FRAME 3
In this frame it’s an extreme
close-up of a characters fingers
holding a blade. All of these
frames are very similar and tend
to puzzle each other together.
This frame is also darkened and
really focus’ on the blade and
that they are holding which has
shaved off some of the skin on
their fingers. This frame shows
the weapon convention of the
thriller genre as a blade can be
used as a weapon.
6. FRAME 4
In this frame the movie title is shown ‘se7en’. This frame is an
extreme close-up again which seems to be used in most of the frames
in this opening sequence. The frame is very dark where you can
barely see what's being shown which shows mystery and allows the
audience to guess what's going on. The opening sequence is showing
the conventions of a thriller because its frame by frame giving you
close ups of what's going on and makes the audience puzzle it up
together or even confuse the audience which is used in psychological
thrillers.
7. FRAME 5
In frame 5 it’s a close-up of fingers measuring
something onto a book which loads of hand written
writing on. It shows a bandage on one of the characters
fingers which was not shown in frame 3 with the blade
which makes it kind of intense. Also, like in most of the
other frames one side of the screen is blacked out
which makes you focus more on the fingers and the
book or what ever is shown on the light side of the
screen suggesting its all very important. This frame also
gives more clues as you can see it’s a small picture that
the fingers are holding and underneath the book you
can see a few pictures of other people and it really
makes you wonder what’s happening and what the
character is doing.
8. FRAME 6
Frame 6 is a lot more darkened than the others and shows a
few more titles than the others. This is because the titles
stand out clearly a lot more against the dark background and
also makes the drawing and pen stand out a lot more. It also
makes the audience wonder who the character has drawn
and why the eyes have been crossed out. The scratchy title
‘casting by Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith, Kerry Borden
flashes in and out with this background frame like in the
others of the opening sequence. The darkness and the shot
types really emphasis the fact that the film really is a thriller.
9. FRAME 7
This frame is an extreme close-up of bandaged fingers and pins on a
piece of a paper. This frame is not as dark and shadowed than the
others which could suggest that this is a more important clue. Also
as the frames go on we see more bandages being added onto the
fingers suggesting the character is doing dangerous work even
though its showing sketching and designing which makes the
audience puzzled even more. The titles ‘Production designed by
Arthur Max’ flashes in with his frame.
10. FRAME 8
Frame 8 is an extreme close up of the fingers again
holding either tweezers or metal which the
character is adding to the paper. One by one the
frames are showing the process of whatever is
happening and once again the left side of the frame
if light and the right side is shadowed and blacked
out where the fingers are. This frame mainly focus’
on the metal tool that the character is using.
11. FRAME 9
In frame 9 another tool like scissors are shown with what looks like an old piece of paper. This is again an extreme
close up. By this point we still don’t know what the character could be doing so it makes the audience continue
watching and guessing and confused.
