Analysis of opening credits of 'Se7ven'

The opening credits of se7ven comes across to the audience as mysterious were we see the characters actions but dont see the actual character themself.
To make the opening credits effective, they have used alot of 'close up' shots to show the characters action. For example we see that their is an image being cut up and the close up shot shows the audience what the image is. The film director may of chose to use alot of close up shot as it doesnt let the audience see much of the character.


The way how the camera is postioned throughout the opening credits is changed to leave the audience asking questions. For example, we see that their is being a letter wrote but as the camera is postioned on to the paper which the letter is being wrote on, it makes the writing blury leaving the audience woundering what the charecter is up to and asking questions. The way how the camera is postioned is clever as it engages the audeince as they want to know more information on the character which hasnt been identified yet.
Music is played throughout the openings which builds suspense as the beat in the music increases, as their is music played during the openings the flim director has not used any diegtic sound.

Editing has been used through out as it makses the differant clips merge together. The opening titles come into the scene, blurred with props behind and then goes onto a black dark screen as you can see in the image. The black screen comes across dark and makes the writing stand out as the writing is white.  

The Mise-en-scene of the shots are dark and shows that the rest of the film is going to be based in a dark nature. The main props used in this opening sequence which gives clues to the audience about the type of character that 'detective summerset' is are; his pen, penknife, diary and pictures as they begin to make the audience wounder what mischeif he is up too.