Se7en Opening titles

This film meets Hollywood thriller expectations as the two detectives are opposites who struggle to establish a positive relationship.

Brad Pitt is a young white male, who is inexperienced and of scruffy appearance. However, an experienced Morgan Freeman is a black male with characteristics of  OCD. These  two opposites develop a strong relationship throughout the duration of the film with the same aim of catching a sinister serial killer at large.

The opening titles use lots of dark effects both visual and audio. Visual effects which could be seen to represent the personality of the killer and nature of killings. The camera uses close up of the killer's books, pictures and what looks like written plans. This could be seen to represent the meticulous planning by the killer. There are also images of implements for example what looks like a scalpel and razor blade, perhaps used for killing? These images lead viewer to imagine the horror that victims may face. From these close up the viewer also  get a clear indication of the detail involved in the killings and what may follow in the film.

The music used is intense and disturbing, again helping to depict the intensity of the killer and many of the sounds could be interpreted as victims screams. The tempo and loudness of the music also increases during the titles suggesting urgency or even suggesting that each killer is worse than the one before? The title scenes mostly in black and white also use effective flashes of red film, the red potentially linked to the bloodiness of the killings.

The opening title also uses close ups of different words for example, the word GOD, this gives a hint that there maybe some kind of religious link to the murders.

The whole opening titles completely set the scene, there is nothing nice about them - even the writing is suggestive of the macabre and grisly murders that follow in the film .