Opening credits (Miss Hartt)

Analysis of the opening credits from Seven

 

 

The opening credits to the thriller film Seven uses mise-en-scene and alot of fast editing to help build up suspence for the audience. In the opening credits to the film Seven, they have used a pretty straight forward font but they have added an effect to the credits which makes the writing look demented. Also the background music they have used is at a medium speed, so its not too fast or too slow. This music is effective because it fits in with the whole theme of whats going on in the credits, so it goes well with the fast editing. This keeps the audience hooked in because as it was getting further into the opening, the music gets much louder, interesting, dangerous and effective.

We are shown the credits in some sort of order. This order is ...
first we are shown the production name which is the name of the group that produced the film. Then we are shown the directors name which is the man/woman that directed the whole film throughout. Then finally we are shown the actors names, which is all the actors in the film.
However the actors names seems to be in order of importance and sometimes popularity seeing as Brad Pitt was shown first and he is a very popular actor.

In this opening scene, they keep the mans idenetity hidden. This is a majour convention of a thriller because the camera takes different shots of the mans  body in order for the audience to try and guess the character. This creates suspense and tension for the audience seeing as they dont know who this man is, and all they know is that he is the bad person in this film. Also the man is wearing black, this foreshadows the fact that he will be causing many deaths throughout this film. The colour black also symbloises the killer in thriller films seeing as they are wearing such a dull colour.