Seven

In this I will be talking about the opening of the movie Seven.

 The first visual we see is a dull book being turned over. This automatically gives the audience a sense of mystery. However when as soon as we see the razor we find that it is not mysterious but it is scary. we see more mystery as we see more of this trailer as we see an unknown set of fingers. the person is cutting his skin with the razor. The mystery if this being that we don't know who this person is or why he is cutting himself with the razor.

The sense of mystery and horror continues as we only continue to see flashes of the unknown character doing random things, for instance writing a letter.However it did not seem that he was writing a letter, more like a book. the fact that he was threading pieces of paper together made me believe that he is writing a book. The director is probably intended for the audience to be convinced he is writing a book to indicate that the character is an isolated person.

Throughout the opening of the movie, the soundtrack and the abstract colours also made an impact on the audience. the music had been very diegetic to show suspense, tension and horror. The abstract colours also showed us that this film was not going to have a nice and happy opening but rather open in a bad note. Which in my belief the director intended for us to read in order to ask all these question as to what the character doing?, what is going to happen next?, etc.. The reason the director chose to use such a mysterious opening is to draw the audience and make them stay to watch the rest of the movie.