The opening scene sets a dark, ominous tone through its lighting, music, and images. Shadows and red lighting add to the suspense. Pictures in a book show a wounded person and blood, intriguing the audience about what happened. The main character is seen crossing out words and smudging pages, but their face is not shown, leaving their motives a mystery. While some violence is hinted at by bandaged fingers, many details are withheld to encourage the audience to watch to learn more.

1. Seven ( Se7en)
Fromwatching this opening I can see that, the lighting is really dark and it
occasionally changes to a dark red which contributes to the effect of the
thriller because people tend to associate dark lighting and red with danger and
fear. At one point, the camera shows a hand which has plasters on the persons
fingers, this shows that there is a good chance that the film is going to be
about violence and blood with maybean ending of death? .The writing on the
pages of the book are also hard for the audience to understand which indicates
the movie will have a distinct horror mystery to solve. The words being crossed
out in some of the pages in one of the books seems quite sinister and it adds to
the suspensebecausethe audience want to know why these certain words are
being crossed out and because the camera only shows thehand of the person
crossing the words out - the audience also want to know who is holding the
pen, they wantto see their face. There is also a part when the person holding
the pen starts to cross outa face - the audience also wantto know why the
person is doing this. The person is also smudging certain parts of the page
which leaves the audience wanting to know why they aredoing this. When this
takes place it makes members of the audience think that the main character of
the plot may suffer with a mental illness, and also may be quite childlike yet
twisted.
At the beginning of the opening scene, there is a picture of two hands, this
may create suspensebecausethe audience may want to know why somebody
has drawn this picture and becauseit is drawn with dark and dull colours, it
makes it seem slightly moresinister. There are also quite a few shadows in the
opening scene, which makes the film seem even more horrific.
There is a picture in one of the books, which is showing the back of
somebodies face and this person has something stuck in their head. The
audience may also be intrigued as to why this person has this wound, and how
it happened. On one of the pictures there is a red mark, which looks like blood
which is slightly unnerving becausethe audience doesn't know whereit has
come fromand why it is there.

2. The music is quite slow, but it also has drums which adds to the pace of the
sound track and adds to the suspense. Itsounds likeat the beginning, in the
background thereare some sound effects added into the music. it sounds like
there is a creaking noiseand the someof the drumming sounds likefootsteps.
There is also a high pitched noise in the background, which sounds likea
screaming noise.
Towards the end of the opening scene, the music seems to get slightly faster
and more sounds areadded into the background which makes the music
seems louder. This adds to the effect of the thriller, because it is adding
suspense- the audience may think that because the music is picking up pace
something is about to happen. There is a drumming sound in the background
which sounds like a faint heartbeat which is quite chilling to the audience.
In justtwo minutes, the opening scene gives the audience quite a lot of
information about the character shown, however it doesn'tgive us enough
information to know everything about the character - justenough so that the
audience wants to know more. We can see that the character is crossing out
certain words and pictures on the pages of the books and they are also
smudging someof the words in the book, however wedon't know why the
character is doing this. We also know that the character seems to have been
involved in somesortof violence becausetheir fingers havebandages around
them and the characters other hand has loads of dirt on their fingers.
However, wedon't know whatthey havedone to their hands. The opening
scene shows us whatthe character is doing however we still don't know what
the character looks like because we haven’tbeen shown their face. There are
also pictures which look like injured people, so the audience wants to know
why the character has these pictures and why the character is looking at them.
The character is also cutting up pictures of people; however, westill don't
know why they are doing this.
The audience hasn'tbeen given too much information about the film,
however, wehave been given enough to know the film is going to be about
violence because of the characters fingers, with bandages around them and
there are pictures with wounded people.
By: Cleo Ann Coogan