Se7en - David Fincher 1995

The opening sequence can tell us a lot of information about the film, in the first two minutes of the title sequence it can tell us a lot about the film and its main (villain) character. We can tell the film is a thriller just from the black backdrop of the film and the quick flashes of clips of very sinister and creepy scenes. We can see someone peeling skin off of their fingers with a razor blade; this suggests that whoever those fingers are he’s our main (villain) character and it suggests he is going to do something against the law very evil and cryptic doings.

We can see the names of the directors, the movie studios, the producers and the actors names all of the writing is in a cryptic and almost scary, all it seems to me in a similar style of text to ‘The Blair Witch Project’ which tells the audience that the film defiantly has a cryptic message and a scary outcome in the end.

We can see a lot of sequences flashing on the screen in the title that all show a lot of old pictures and books this shows us a place of study and almost religious worship for this … killer, the pictures that flash up through the sequence of pure evil and most likely his/her victims but the way they show up we can almost affiliate or associate them with someone’s life flashing before our eyes. We can also associate the state of the books and pictures with the ruined lives of the victims with our main villain’s actions.

We can see from all of the title sequence alone the film is aiming to disorientate and prepare the audience for what is going to happen in the movie, we see someone cutting the word ‘God’ from the phrase 'In God We Trust' from the dollar bill we can assume that our villain assumes he is doing the work of 'God' and he is carrying out the lords work by killing people.

For committing 'the Seven Deadly Sins'... 

The Preliminary Task

Evaluation

The 180 degree rule, we used it to show dialect between
the characters in our piece, we hd to fim the characters on the same side, unless we used a pan and, or a transition to see the direction of a character as they walk.
A match on action is a zoom in on a certain point for example, how we did it was a package ( The Box) exchanging hands, through a series of takes but due to editing we made it look like it was seamless and done in only one shot.An eye line match is a focus over the shoulder showing two or more characters during diologue or just to show they are looking at eachother.
The film making process went well, we had to do a few takes here and there, but the main problem with the filming was having to wait for people to leave so we could start filming and make sure we have no continuity errors in the piece. Unfortunatly we did have one continuity error in our piece, in the scene in the conference room during one shot we can see a student on his phone, in the next shot he was not in there what looks like a seconed later. This is an unfortunate error but we now know for our main tasks to watch the background incase of any errors.
On the upside the college was a perfect place to shoot the staff were more than helpful allowing us to use all of the facilities we needed the college attair and formal students give our piece the spy look we were going for.
During the film editing on ' Adobe Premere' we learnet how to add transitions and titles as well as using garage band to add sound effects, we added the title 'The Box' we added mysterious sounds and music to add the effects of the piece. We tried to make sure we kept our pice as fluid and have as little continuity errors as possible in our film 'The Box'.