Se7en Opening Sequence Analysis

Titles in Chronological Order
Production company
Producer
Director
Main actors
Film title
Actors
Casting
Music
Costume designers
Editors
Production designers
Director of photography
Co-producers
Co-executive producers
Executive producers
Writers
Film title
Producers
Director








It establishes the dark and twisted nature of the film, with what we see on screen. There are a collection of shots where someone is doing something in most of them, in one shot they are peeling the skin off of their fingers with a pencil sharpener blade. The dark and dingy lighting of the shots creates a tense, sinister atmosphere, coupled with the strange nature of the actions on screen and it foreshadows the slightly psychotic theme and plot of the film. None of the characters are established we merely get an insight into the nature of the film.