9 Frame Analysis - 2 - SE7EN

1.     How does the title sequence establish the genre (explain the genre’s codes and conventions), character and narrative?

2.     How does the title sequence attract an audience’s interest?

3.     What do you consider to be the target audience of the film and why? (explain audience gender and demographics and why it would appeal to that particular audience)

4.     Who has produced the film and how is that evident in the title sequence?

MOVIE SE7EN

The opening sequence starts with this image, a extreme close up shot. The shot shows the open pages of a book, it gives a air of mystery; you would want to know whats in the book. It is overlayed with the title of the production company in a blurry font. The font implies that its not safe, that the movie may be scary and unwelcoming. The main concept of this image is the book, because its a simple mystery we want to know wants it about, who owns it; this is the thing that makes the movie a thriller.   

 This is the second frame within the opening sequence. in both of these frames there is always a hint of darkness within the frame, which is another key aspect, because you want to know what is hiding in that darkness, which gives a sense of enigma, also the picture of the hands, makes you wounder who's hands they are. This frame is a lose up, they have got very dim lighting in this scene as well which adds to the tension of this scene.

This frame is the actual name of the film, and as you can see it is very dull and gloomy, but then the text pops out at you because of the very bright white color off the text, the text font is also strange, it is not standard font it is very uneven and faded, and this again shows enigma because we want to know why it had faded, the mise-en-scene is pretty plain and simple, yet effective because it stands out even though it has standard colors.








this is an extreme close up of someone writing or logging in a book of some sort, and there is an effect where it looks like he/she had been writing for a while. The mise-en-scene is well presented in this frame of the film opening, because of the extreme close up, you only focus on that specific area of the frame which makes you want to know who is actually writing in the book. This also implements bits of enigma, as you don't know who is writing it and why it's being written.

This shot is an extreme close up, of a page and someone is filling in some parts of the text with a black pen, you usually see this on private documents. This shows a key element in thriller movies which is enigma, because you don;t know who is doing this or why he is doing this, this gives you a sense of mystery which is a massive part of a thriller movie.

Again this is an extreme close up of a picture, which looks like a boy. The titles are a big contribution to this frame because it says a lot about the movie or the main character in the movie, the font is not straight or organised and the font is displaced around the page, which could mean that the main character is slightly crazy, if it relates to the font., the mise-en-scene is the lighting which is dark all around the central image, which attracts the attention towards the center of the frame.

The was an extreme close up of a picture on a man with a sharp object in the back of his head, which is very strange because this person has kept a picture of it and putting in a scrap book of some sorts, maybe he is logging his killings or he is a police officer looking at a murder. The mise-en-scene is the lighting which is dark all around the central image, which attracts the attention towards the center of the frame.

This is a one of the titles used during the movie opening, and as you can see it has a plane black background and bright white text, this stands out against the black background which draws your attention, the black background could represent evil and the white text could mean hope.

In my opinion this is a vital clue in relation to the main character, As you can see that is an American dollar bill and there is a message at the bottom of the bill, and as you can see the person has cut out the work "God" which could either mean that he is very religious or the complete opposite maybe an Antichrist, or a saytan worshiper. This is also a very extreme close up.