- The montage editing created a sense of disjointed searility which reinforces the eery storyline and allowed the audience to understand the mind of the serial killer.
- Music is used throughout the sequence and is mixed up in volume as the clip develops a creepy and uncomfortable atmosphere, with repeated sounds echoed throughout the opening.
- 'Se7en' uses a series of close ups and extreme close ups so the audience only sees the man's hands, with each finger plastered up so the killers finger prints cannot be detected. We see these hands turning, looking through and sewing pages of the book together which allows the audience to question the significance of it, what is the man planning and creating with various photos of different people?
- The title credits are an animated font moving around the layout not only to grasp attention but to create a dramatic style of the film straight away from when the name is presented, to hook the audience with the well created design and flashes and smudges of writing underling a creepy sense of the film. The names of the actors are all in a handwritten style font underlining the theme of the film, with flashes of scribbles.
- Particular camera work techniques of blurring the subject creates a delusional effect, and the use of directional light heavily shadows the setting creating a supernatural feel and eliciting great emotion, fear and horror through the clever positioning of images, font, discordant music and layered affect to create suspense and tension.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY
I definitely think that this is the best clip that we have analysed. If we chose to do something along these lines, that would be good. This style would allow us to be experimental and creative.
ReplyDeleteI agree it incorporates elements of both thriller, particularly with the psychological sub genre and horror with the more graphic images and the iconography of sharp needles, and metal chipper. I think a montage edited clip with a warm yet shadowed colour wash is accessible to create when it comes to creating our editing.
ReplyDeleteThis style is actually harder to recreate than you think - quite a bit of close-up filming and prop design. You could certainly look to encorporate a CU montage in your work - it wouldn't necessarily need to all be in this style. I like the way you are considering colour - this is certainly very effecticve. Listen to the ARtoftitle talk to see how this was made..
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