Se7en (Opening Credits)

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Shot 1 

In this shot I have chosen it is a extreme close up of a person hand who is holding a safety blade, they have used this shot so that the audience can see the details of the person cracked dirty fingers and fingernails and so they have an impression of the character. The fact that the finger and fingernails are all cracked and dirty might give the audience an impression that the character is a male because it is very unlikely that a woman would have such dirty nails in stero-typical way it would most probably a male hands. A close up has been used to create an image

 because of the way the hands look it creates an image of what his face looks like and that would be based around what his fingers and nails look like so it would mostly be a scruffy dirty man who doesn't care about his appearance which then leads question about what his personality would be like.

There is quite a bit of lighting in this shot so that the dirt in his finger nails are contrasted in the bright scene of the background, it seems that the only light in the scene is produced by the daylight that might be shining through a window.You notice that the background is a blur so that the audience can only focus on what the man is doing and holding which focuses the audience's attention and  their interest toward what will he do with the safety blade.

The sounds in the scene is diegetic which means it can be heard by the character in the scene and the sound is of all the tools he is using and has use so it makes a screechy noise and electrical sound which makes the audience notice how much noise the tools they might use make such horrible nois+es and so it brings a part of the film into the audience everyday life style.

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Shot 2

In this shot they male character has changed the activity to writing on paper and the shot they have used is a close up because it allow the audience to be able to see in detail what he is doing but also how long he has been writing for and that allows the audience to consider wether or not he has been doing this often or not. Again in this shot you can see the dirty finger nails up close but they are not as dirty as before which raises questions as to why that might be. It also portrays the male character to be hard working and an intellectual because he writes, but his dirty hand portrays him as a busy male that does not have time for grooming because of what he does.

The fact that the writing he has already done is blurry could suggest that it has be done on purpose show adds effect and makes the audience more interested about what he is writing so much about.

You can see that the source of light is coming from the left and seems to be the only source of light that could be daylight from a window which causes very dark shadows over the rest of his hand but lets the audience see how much he has already written.

The lettering used in this scene a very pale pink and it looks like very scruffy hand writing style of font has been used maybe to state a point that the lack of technology which could also be the reason he is writing and not typing the information on a computer.

The sound being used is now diegetic tools that almost sound like doctors tools and surgical electronics, a non diegetic beat is being used to emphasise his work it also adds mystery to the work he is doing. They use a lot of the colour black to symbolise that this film will contain death which gives detail about the theme and events of this horror film.

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Shot 3

This shot is a close up of  the writing and red ink where photographs are dipped in the effect this has on the audience is that they have more than one thing to focus on in detail, you can see the photograph or all the writing on the paper. The colours used in the scene is interesting and grabs the audience attention because it introduces the colour red and in this context it is the ink that photos get dipped to help them develop but it can also symbolise blood even though its connotation is stop. The red has a bright contrast against the white paper focusing the audience attention to the red ink then what grabs the audience attention is what is in the ink a photograph of what seems of a person but it is distorted so that it make the audience want to find out who it might be. You notice that the shot has been altered because the pen is the wrong way around. The fact that the male character has dipped his photographs in red ink could give the audience more information about him, it shows that he is a professional and that he likes to use all the right equipment.

The lettering is now a pale white and is still in the same font as the other lettering I looked at which then contradicts what they audience might think about him being professional.

the light is bright so that the audience can see the detail that is happening in the shot such as the photo and the writing. The non- diegetic music at this point is almost very alien like and almost sounds like a radio tuning when a radio station is not found but the beat from the previous scene I looked at has increased its tempo which builds up the tension for the audience making this scene feel dangerous.

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Shot 4 

This is a close up of the male character hand applying some sort of binder with tape on to a paper and a close up has been used to show that to the audience. His hand is dirty again but this time you can see a bandage on his thumb which could impersonate that he is careless and clumsy and that maybe he did it to himself but it could also mean that he is a victim and he had this done to him. The bandage is a dirty white which could raise a question of how long ago it happened and if it still hurt why is he still working so hard. Even though you can see the background you cant make out exactly what that blue item is or what it could be because the camera has focused on the hand and the binder and what seems to be sheets of paper beneath.

The lighting in this scene is coming in from the right side of the shot and it appears to be produced by daylight which implies that it is coming in through a window. The non diegetic sound is like radio station and the tempo of the beat has slowed down it reminds me of the music from detectives murder cases which could imply what the theme of the horror might be about.

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Shot 5

This last shot I have looked at is an extreme close up of his hand and it allow the audience to see very clearly that he is holding a needle in between his fingers, in this scene it also allows the audience to have a clearer look at his hand, cracked skin and dirty fingernails and allow them to think for themselves how the rest of him must look like.

The character is being portrayed as a male hard working stero-typical type of guy who is professional but doesn't seem to care about hygiene. The space in this shot has been filled with just the needle and his hands it shows the contrast to how smooth the needle to how rough his finger and hand are.

He is stroking the needle which is ironic if he like to feel that kind of surface when his hands are so rough.

The fact that they have used an extreme close up means that whats happening in this shot is really important and they want the audience to remember this because it might be an important part of the film.The lighting in this piece is a typical daylight source coming from a window most likely but it creates careful shadow across his finger and across the crease of his thumb that the audience can actually see the skin and the individual skin cells which the audience can see because of the shadow created by the right lighting. Even though there is mostly black in this scene that is created by the shadows but in the background it is also black too which can strongly symbolise death and the fact that this is a gloomy horror film project tiling it theme across to the audience.

The sound in the scene is a constant drone almost like the beat of a train track and it helps the needle scene come across to the audience as gross because it looks like the male character is pulling the needle out of his fingers which is horrible.