Opening Credits - Hartt

Opening Credits

The main reason why films have credits is to let the audience know the peoples names who are included in the making of the film. The opening credit start by saying the names of the important people in the film like; major actors, special guests, director, producer, etc... At the end of the film the rest of the film crew and actors will be shown, this is called ending credits.

The opening credits can give away what genre a film is by the font, colour, positioning, size and movement. For a thriller the audience would expect to see a red font on a black background, bold and jagged which is conventional to a thriller as it resembles blood, murder and mystery.

Se7en Analysis

The opening scene of Se7en the text looked like a child wrote it as it wasnt neat like how a adult would write. Also the text was flashing white with a glow around the outside of it moving uncontrollably throught the opening. The font was the same size throught the opening apart form the title of the film which was large to capture the audience's attention. These credits help to make the audience realize it is a thriller by the use of sound and the images on the screen.

The sound repeats itself to build up tension as it sends a shiver down the audiences spine. The images are conventional as the audience can tell the person is the killer by the way the camera never shows his face, also how it shows what he is focused on, which is the pictures he is cutting up. The way the camera show the killer cutting the skin off his fingers tells the audience that he doesnt fear pain and that he is used to it.