Se7en Title Scene

Time:	Screen Shot & Description:
00:03	Opening of a book which may be significant within the film. Credit: 'New Line Cinema Presents' (moving and flashing font to create an eerie effect which may relate to the film). Camera Shot: Extreme Close Up (ECU). Special Effects: Font Panning, Font Size Editing, Font Contrasting.
00:06	Black screen, introduces the producer; 'An Arnold Kopelson Production' in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Special Effects: Font Panning, Font Size Editing, Font Contrasting.
00:10	Distorted hands image/sketch from which looks to be from a file (book) may reflect importance to a character within the film and links to the horror/thriller genre. Opening credit; 'A Film By David Fincher' in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU). Special Effects: Font Panning, Font Size Editing, Font Contrasting.
00:12	Close up a hand (important character?) and a tool which may also be of importance. Quickly flashes within the same second to the next shot. Camera Shot: Extreme Close Up (ECU). Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
00:12	Close up of a tool which may be used within the movie. Imprinted 'U.S.A' which suggests the setting of the film. Camera Shot: Extreme Close Up (ECU). Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
00:13	Character using a tool which is also quickly changes to making a strange/eerie effect. Camera Shot: Extreme Close Up (ECU). Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
00:13	Black screen, introduces the big actor; 'Brad Pitt' in a eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Special Effect: Font Panning, Font Size Editing, Font Contrasting.
00:16	Characters hand, black dirty nails suggests they use their hands and the razor tool carving dead skin from the hand add to the eeriness of the opening. Camera Shot: Extreme Close Up (ECU).
00:18	Black screen, introduces the big actor; 'Morgan Freeman' in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Special Effects: Font Panning, Font Size Editing, Font Contrasting.
00:21	Disturbing image of a human (dead corpse) who looks to have been tortured which relates to the genre of horror/thriller may also reflect to the character. Camera Shot: Extreme Close Up (ECU). Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
00:24	The title 'Se7en' appears in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen and also increases and decreases in size again. Special Effect: Font Panning, Font Size Editing, Font Contrasting.
00:30	Opening credit 'Gwyneth Parlow' in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Book appears again which emphasizes its importance and blood smears appear on the screen connoting death and the horror/thriller genre of film. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU). Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
00:33	Ghosting effect of the characters hand writing onto a piece of paper, Opening credit; 'Richard Roundtree' in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU). Special Effect: Ghosting. Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
00:39	Images of the character cutting a film reel which may also be of importance later on in the film, film reel may also be evidence of some kind. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU).
00:45	Black and white images under the book where the character sliding the image across. Again may be significant to the film. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU).
00:51	Character wring into a book. A lot of hand wrote notes/documents which may contain the eerie images or information on murders/victims. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU).
01:07	Highlighting in black pen over black pen which seems odd and may reflect to the characters personality. Camer Shot: Close Up (CU). Special Effect: Ghosting.
01:10	Opening credit; 'Casting By Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith, Kerry Borden' in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen. Use of the black pen to cross out the eyes on the images of the boy which suggests he was a target of a murdered/villain (possibly the character in the title scene?). Camera Shot: Close Up (CU). Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).
01:28	Close up of a hand written letter/note which looks to have water marks on which may be important within the film. Camera Shot: Close Up (CU).
01:32	Another disturbing image of a human (dead) with some type of metal tool pierced through their head which may suggest this character tortures human beings. Camera Shot: Close up (CU).
01:56	Images of humans who look unwell/injured or possibly dead and again from a book which may belong to the characters suggesting they are a murderer/villain. Camera Shot:  Close Up (CU).
02:03	Panning shot of many files/book which may have contained some of the content which is shown throughout the title scene which suggests that the murderer/villain has killed many human beings creating an eerie horror/thriller genre theme.
02:08	The opening of the film begins with text 'Monday' the text is in an eerie font which moves and flashes on the screen like the credit in the title scene. By using a day/time in the opening it suggests that the plot is time related e.g. being given a certain amount of time/days to save someone/something. Camera: Long Shot. Setting: City. Editing: Cuts (Fast to create a flashing image effect).