“Se7en” (1995)

Visual Style • The titles in this sequence are not contained within the opening sequence. Some of the credits are on a black screen in white writing and sometimes they’re on the moving image shown in the background.• There are a lot of different things going on in the title sequence. The font that is used is handwritten and it gives off a psychopathic/childlike vibe. • By seeing this, we as audience, can guess what sort of genre the film is going to be. It seems as if this film is going to be a thriller/violent/action. • We also get extreme close ups, which shows the detail, of disturbing things e.g. we see the hands of the man taking his own skin off his fingers. • The writing and moving images flicker from one shot to the next, this also gives off the genre. It also tells us that maybe the character has some mental disability and this is how his mind is. • The music that has been edited in is also very creepy which gives off the genre of the film. • Overall what we see happening is unusual and disturbing.

Characterisation• We are not shown any faces in the title sequence but we the hands of a man. • The hands that are shown are presumably the hands of the antagonist. • This tells us that the character shown is going to be a psychopath and maybe a killer. • We can also interpret that he will be one of the main characters and the main antagonist.