Opening sequence research - Se7en

I took a look at the opening sequence of the film 'Se7en' as it is a thriller film which is the genre in which we wish to follow. It is a mystery thriller which creates suspense straight away.

The opening sequence to Se7en starts with a man led in bed just finishing reading his book and starts off a clock this makes the audience feel like they are waiting around time on something to happen. The camera work leads up to this clock with silent music as the only thing you can hear is the clock ticking. Then a blackout comes and starts the film with the credits opening with a man's hand in detailed close up handling different pieces of clock pieces before it is built up. We see that someone is writing information down but we cannot see properly what it is says as it all seems a mystery.We get lots of enigmas coming from this opening sequence such as Why has he set this clock? Why is there a big lead up to the clock? Why does he have bruised and cut hands? What is he writing down?

We start to see these hands moving in different direction from writing in this book to pages being turned over. There is a face appearing in the book on a picture where a finger is sliding over it gently, the music in this part of the opening becomes very creepy and evil as you would tend to find in a mystery/thriller.

In the next part, we see this person creating a scrap book as they are showing the pictures that are being put involved within this book, the person has got a needle and thread and sewing up these pages to create this idea of a book. There are words being cut out of newspapers to make it look like it could a serial killer note/book.

The films starts to being normal and starts it off with a simple word 'Monday' we see a young man and a woman lying in bed together with the only noise in the background is the street traffic noise. The young man gets out of bed and leaves the woman in and goes off somewhere.

I think this film brings us to watching the rest of the film, it creates suspense and makes us want to know more. This film has very good use of lighting, scenes, character build-up and music. We need to take all of these into account as this is what is needed to make a successful opening sequence.