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New Line Cinema Presents

An Arnold Kopelson Prouction

A Film By David Fincher

Brad Pitt

Morgan Freeman

Se7en

Gwyneth Paltrow

Richard Roundtree

R. Lee Ermey

John C. McGinley

Julie Araskog

Mark Boone Junior

John Cassini

Reginald E. Cathey

Peter Crombie

Hawthorne James

Michael Massee

Leland Orser

Richard Portnow

Richard Schiff

Pamela Tyson

Casting By

Billy Hopkins,

Suzanne Smith

Kerry Borden

Music By

Howard Shore

Costumes Designed By

Michael Kaplan

Edited By

Richard Francis-Bruce

Production Designed By

Arthur Max

Director of Photography

Darius Khondji

Co-Producers

Stephen Brown

Nana Greenwald

Sanford Pinitch

Co- Executive Producers

Lynn Harris

Richard Saperstein

Executive Producers

Gianni Nunnari

Dan Kolsrd

Anne Kopelson

Written By

Andrew Kevin Walker

Produced By

Arnold Kopelson

Phyllis Carlyle

Directed by

David Fincher

opening sequence to se7en

The film begins , a wide shot which shows Detective Somerset reading in bed. Then a close up, his hand enter the shot placing his glasses beside him bed. The camera tilts upwards with Somerset's eye-line; a technique that is used a lot in the opening sequence and Somerset sets off a metronome which reveals he has trouble sleeping, maybe due to his line of work. We see that the he is reading a book; this shows Somerset to be intellectual. From now until the end of this shot the camera slowly zooms in on Somerset then cut away s are used to show the metronome still ticking coinciding with the zooming in on Somerset. This together shows that Somerset is falling asleep, this leads the viewer to think why does he need help sleeping? And what will happen when he wakes?
The credits begin, the titles are edited into various strange strange shots, firstly a close up of a book, pages turning,shot at an upward angle. This is the first contact with the killer, even though the audience do not know it, showing close up of scribbled pictures maybe a way of crossing people from a list, this also shows that the killer is psychotic and deranged Throughout this sequence the music is a heavy beat of percussion and creaking creaking from what seems to be in background, this music was used to provoke tension . the final close ups of the killer are of him slicing his fingertips probably to obscure his fingerprints ,this shows the killers determination not to be caught or even suspected shrouding him in mystery.

organisation of props, costume and actors

Actors:

adam larkin

andrew magill

daniel phelps

jay corbett

Costume:

andrew and jay will need worn, grubby attire as they are undercover.

adam larkin will wear a suit and shades

daniel will wear ripped/bloodied clothing to make it obvious he has been interrogated.

Probs:

chair, weaponry, duck tape, boombox/sterio, fake blood and police badges.

Film Certification (18)

The 18 certificate is issued by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to state that, in its opinion, a film, video recording, or game should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 years old.

As with other British film certificates, the 18 certificate theoretically only has advisory power for films shown in public cinemas, with the ultimate say being held by local authorities. In practice, the local authorities tend to follow BBFC rulings in all but a few exceptional cases.

For video and game sales, the BBFC rulings have statutory power, as under the terms of the 1984 Video Recordings Act all videos sold or distributed within the UK must either be given a certificate by the BBFC, unless they fall into a number of exempt categories. Uncertified recordings which are not exempt cannot legally be sold, regardless of content.

Typical reasons for restricting films to the 18 certificate category have included scenes of hard drug use, supernatural horror, explicit sex, sadistic violence and sexual violence — the last two of which have in the past led to a certificate not being issued at all, effectively banning the film in the UK.

It was only recently that the censors passed films with explicit ('hardcore') sexual acts despite the 18 certificate existing for many years.

film noir (a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters) "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"