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Some interesting and perceptive insight into how the director has created meaning. If Somerset's room is dark it may be that the lighting at the start of his film is purposefully low key to try and evoke the claustrophobia of the city. David Fincher uses these techniques often in his films.

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Seven

Seven

At the start of the film, Summerset, played by Morgan Freeman, is in a very dark room of his house. This symbolises his isolation away from everyone else and suggests that he lives alone. Somerset's room is dark it may be that the lighting at the start of his film is purposefully low key to try and evoke the claustrophobia of the city. David Fincher uses these techniques often in his films. There is a mid angled shot when he is getting dresses. From what he is wearing, we can see that he has an important job as he puts on his police identity badge.

In the next scene, we can see that a murder has happened from the body that is laying motionless on the floor showed through a high angled camera shot looking down at it. When Brad Pitt or 'Mills' arrives, we see the tinges of green light which could potentially suggest to the audience that he is a bit jealous of Summerset as he has had a lot more experience than he does and knows how to do the job best.

From the title 'Se7en' we can tell that its about the seven deadly sins which hints to us that the whole of New York city is soaked in sin and it is what the film will be about. There is rain throughout the opening scene. This shows pathetic phalacy and how everything that occurs will be sad, dangerous and glum. The quietness at the beginning emphasises the feel of danger and death and the police officers wearing white and black, gives us a hint of the good and bad that will be in the film.

When Summerset is lying in bed, the ticker gets louder and louder which also portrays a sense of danger and despair to the audience. There is a lot of mid shots when Summerset and Mills are talking to show the viewers their body language as mills keeps on fidgeting but Summerset is very calm and content as it is just an everyday thing for him to see a terrible sight of a dead body. This is also shown through the fact that Mills never stops talking and is frequently asking questions throughout the film to prove he is curious about learning what the job entails as a police officer. However, Summerset doesn't talk much so it ensures us he already knows what is going on.

In the title scene, it shows how the criminal puts everything together but also leaves things out as he wants to be caught out. The music is very weary and has a creepy feel to it to match the film and what it entails. There are close up shots of the criminal shaving off his skin on his finger to hide his finger print so that whatever he touches won't leave his trace on it. He does this as he is trying not to get found out and has a clever plan to make sure that that doesn't happen very soon.



Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

The music at the start sounds like violins and is quite calm to begin with but then gets louder. This could represent what will happen throughout the film and how it will progress and something drastic will occur. The first show we see is a tilt shot that reveals a bright blue sky, white picket fence and red roses. It look like a scene from a Disney movie, the idea of a perfect setting is shown. The blue sky can show pathetic phalacy of how everything is perfect and foreshadows a feeling to the viewer that as the film goes on, it will change and do the opposite. The red roses are very significant as the colour red symbolises danger, death and blood and the fact that they are roses could symbolise and portray imagery of loss or a funeral that will occur.

In the next scene, it is a sunny day which again is pathetic phalacy but there is a man who is watering his garden and he has a heart attack. This is very ironic because due to the fact that it shows it as being a sunny day and he has a heart attack, you would have expected it to be raining in the picture. There is an establishing shot and a pan of the America surroundings showing how perfect it is but then that happens which shocks the audience. When the bloke falls to the ground, there is an extreme close up of the rummaging through the grass. Next, we see hundreds of cockroaches which is showing the device of animal imagery for something that will happen throughout the film.

In the rest of the opening scene, there are loads of hints of it being portrayed as a very safe town like with the markings on the road for the children going to school and the lollypop lady helping them get to the other side. There is also an old fire engine that drives past too showing irony as the man is stood right on the edge of the truck as it is driving which isn't safe so the image contradicts itself. With all of these things saying to the audience that it is a very safe town, it makes the viewer feel even more on edge watching it because they know that something bad is about to happen and the film will be full of disaster and nothing more. 

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Codes & Conventions

Film Noir

In film noir's they contain many codes and conventions for example:

• Sound
• Lighting 
• Narrative
• Use of language
• Mise-en-Scene
• Character
• Iconography
• Use of the camera

When they use to film film noir's, they only used one light source like coming through some blinds, candles or a lamp. This is because they didn't have the technology that we have today or the money so they had to spend as little as possible on making the films. They would also use things like dry ice to create smoke too. 

In the films they used props such as a trilby hat, trench coat, identity badge, cigarettes, alcohol etc... This is called iconography when they use symbols or typical things that are all in the same sort of films in other words, the genre of films.

The characters in film noir's are usually detectives, a victim and someone that helps the victim. The murderer usually plays up to be the victim normally as a femme fatal where they draw in the detective to brainwash him into thinking she is the victim kind of like a scenario with a spider and a fly - she is the spider twisting the detective around her finger to try and convince him.