Se7en Analysis

Film Title:Se7en
Director:David Fincher
Title Designer:Kyle Cooper






Editing is quite fast paced, with mainly straight cuts and dissolving used. The shots quite often overlap making it fuzzy and increasing realism. The entire sequence jolts a lot creating the feel of an old reel of film, which reinforces the narrative and tone as it is very dirty and old.

The music is parralel to the sequence as it features a lot of soundeffects like a type writer and fuzzing like bad reception ona T.v. It is quite modern in feel and could be classed as techno but is also quite creepy, again parralel to the titles.

The props used are old looking, dusty and dirty. The photographs used connote death or murder as they are quite grusome. The colours used are very dull and dark, mainly grey, black and some brown. The books seem verey tattered and the razor blade used to skin the fingers is quite graphic. The lighting is very low key and the crossing out of peoples eyes in black creates a very sinister feel, as if he is plannign something which creates narrative siggesting he is the villain.


The special effects used are very suble but effective in creating a dark and sinister feel.

Titles – font, colour, placement, over black / over clip…The text used looks handwritten and scruffy in appearance. It jogs and blurs a lot along with the shots and either appears over the shots or against a black background.