Se7en and Kyle Cooper interview.

I watched a two half interview with Kyle Cooper, some of the things i got from the interviews are:

• Don't make too much of your work digital (although he's not against the idea of having digital effects but thinks it looks better having it natural). 
• Don't be afraid to experiment. Kyle Cooper gives a good example, such as shooting things through broken glass to see what happens - thinking in unconventional ways to try things out.
• Something simple can be very effective.  

Opening Sequence For David Fincher's Se7en "1995"

The opening title sequence for the film Se7en is particularly good and quite cutting-edge. It is dark and mysterious making you feel a mix of emotions. Focus (or lack of it) has been used in the extreme close up shot of a hand turning the pages of a book. Through blurring of the hand, you are made to look at the more significant book image. 

 The use of close up and focus were used again in a disturbing clip where someone seemed to be playing with a Stanley knife. The effect of the title sequence is that you feel on alert, trying to work out what is going to happen. This title sequence develops or builds, so that the second minute is more unusual and bizarre than the first. You have to guess at what the images are, as they have been shot to make you puzzle over them and question. At the end the images look like dead, mutilated bodies. You begin to think of all kinds of scenarios when you watch it. 

The next time that there is a close up of book pages being turned, the hand  is seen writing on paper, making you think that it is probably a diary. The pen is also shot putting lines through biblical words as if they are being crossed out. This makes you think that religion is involved in some way. Because clips are so varied (with different meanings), it is difficult to understand or put the puzzle pieces together and work out what the film might be about. This is unusual, because a trailer usually lets you know the kind of film you'll be watching in order for you to want to watch it. The effect of Kyle Coopers title sequence is very clever because it doesn't give anything away, but because of this it makes you want to keep watching (to try to work it out). 

  




 I think overall the opening title credits to the film "Se7en" are effective because of the effects that are used in them. Kyle Cooper uses an effect to show the credits vibrating when the actors and actresses names come in. The titles occasionally have drops of blood in them. I think the drops of blood is a good warning to the viewers of the film that there will be gore and horror. The music played in the opening titles sounds uncomfortable It doesn't make a lot of sense musically and i think it keeps you on edge about watching the film. Throughout the opening titles there is someone with a needle sewing up a book. The opening titles are very detailed. All the recordings that are taken are close-ups of either the book that the person is sewing or of the persons hands. I think the title sequence is unique and interesting to watch.