Thriller 5 - Se7en

Release Date - 22nd September, 1995
Director - David Fincher

Camera
The sequence is dominated by CUs and ECU's of images of harmful objects throughout. There are no LS's and ELS's included to establish the setting, allowing the audience to think carefully about the images been shown, which creates anxiety, often used in mystery/thriller genres.
The camera also stays fixed on the images. including no movement on the camera could indicate an important part in the narrative.

Editing
Cuts are significant within the opening. They are used throughout but speed up as the scene progresses by changes the images quickly. The non diegetic music also quickens. This could indicate in the narrative there is equilibrium at the beginning but then it all piles up to become disequilibrium which is often used in the thriller genre.
Editing is also apparent when dissolves are used to link similar images together. This acts as a jigsaw puzzle because it is forcing the audience to figure out the storyline, assuming to them it is a mystery thriller. This also reinforces that the images presented are important if they tell the story.

Sound
Non-diegetic sound is used in the sequence throughout. It is very high pitched and spooky, connoting the horror sub-genre. This creates tension because it feels as if the music is buliding up to something. This is reinforced at the end of the songs because it is instrumental the whole way through until the end where the lyrics say "You get me closer to God". This has a religious content because God is mentioned which could link to the title "se7en" and the seven deadly sins, denoting the music builds up to this, connoting religion is significant in the narrative.

Mise-en-scene
Sharp objects such as razors are shown in the sequence which denotes danger and violence, connoting that the sub genres of horror/mystery are going to be a factor in the film. The word "God" is cut out of a newspaper which is indexical as it relates to religion.
The typograpghy in the scene is very messy looking, as if it was by a child. This creates ambiguity within the title sequence because children should not be messing razor blades creating a twist, adding to the mystery for the audience.
Lastly, images of dead bodies and the highlighting of sexual words on the newspaper relate to horror and gory sexual scenes indicating that it can only be wathced by someone 18 or over.