Thursday, 20 October 2011

Se7en's Title Sequence.

I have also studied 'Se7en', and I have had a look at the title sequence. I recoreded what happened at what time in the title sequence below.

Seconds                     Image

2                                A book with an Open page.
3                                'New Line Cinema Productions' name appears on the book.
7                                Intertitle 'An Arnold Kopelson Production' appears.
8                                There are old, bad looking hands in black and white.
13                              We see Brad Pitts name come up  and it almost looks hand written.
16                              Close-up of fingers (cutting fingerprints off. This is dirty.
18                              Morgan Freeman's name comes up.
23                              The title of the film is small, and repeatidly flashes.
29                              We see a book opening, whilst Gwyneth Paltrows name appears.
34                              We then see a Cloe-Up of a pen writing on paper.
36                              A red filter begins to appear.
39                              Scissors are shown cutting up a film - Extreme Close-Up
43                              The paper keeps being shown. There are also Black and White Photos.
52                              Pages in a book are shown and more actors names.
61                              Black marker pen crosses off words in a point of views shot (POV shot)
71                              Young boy in black and white photo is shows, and there is another POV shot    
                                  of someone crossing out his eyes.
74                              The face gets completely crossed out and another red filter appears.
76                              Top half of it shows a photo being dipped into a red liquid. The bottom   
                                  half  of  the photo is white.
79                              It shows a lot of negatives and a book.
85                              Close Up of fingers binding and making a book.
88                              Close-up of some dirty fingers with a bandage on them.
90                              Range of photos on lined paper.
96                              Extreme Close-Up of a dirty hand playing with a needle.
102                           Another Close-Up of threading a needle.
107                           Shot of someone binding and putting a book together again.
118                           Range of fast images, containing photos.
127                           The film starts.

I noticed that in this title sequence there are a load of fast images, and the creater uses close ups and extreme close ups of items and props that will be important and play a big role in the film. This would go well in our title sequence, because ours contains a story about a cursed book.

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