Art of the title

As part of my media course we have been looking at how important the titles of a film are and what they do. So I chose to look closely at the titles of the American thriller 'seven' and have chosen 9 frames  to evaluate. 

 This is the first frame I have chosen and is also the first thing the audience sees when they watch this film. The style of the book and the lighting they have used has a creepy and old-fashioned feel to it, which gives the audience the impression that the film is going to be dark and creepy.

Here is a frame that looks like a kind of trace or drawing of hands, the hands look distorted or broken and a lot of detail has been included. This puts questions in the viewers mind as they would wonder what these hands mean and what they have to do with the plot.

 This frame shows a man scrapping skin off of his fingers with a blade. This shocks the viewer and makes the audience think that the film is going to a gruesome edge to it. Also the fingers are very dirty which insinuates that he probably doesn't have much money or lives somewhere dirty.

In this frame you can see a picture being placed on a piece of paper, but the thing that stands out the most about this frame in my opinion is the hand. If you look at the hand closely you can see that there is a plaster or bandage wrapped around the thumb which shows some sort of injury.

 There is two aspects of this frame that could reflect the storyline of the film, the first is the most obvious one of the picture with the eyes being crossed out. Usually in thriller or horror movies or when you hear about someones eyes being crossed or scratched off of a picture they have been killed or are planning on being killed. The other aspect is the style of writing, it looks hand written, it also looks scruffy and untidy which could resemble the personality of the character.

 Here we see the character binding something together, most probably all the sheets of paper that we have seen up until this point. This shows that he has finished what looks like the planning of something, which could imply to the viewer that he may put these plans into action throughout the film. which could strike fear.

 The character here seems to be sewing paper together which shows that whoever it is he is not a professional at what he is doing otherwise he would have the proper machinery to bind what ever he making together.

Here it looks as though he using parts of different newspapers to spell out a sentence. This is usually done in crime shows so that the crime is untraceable, this gives the audience the impression that some kind of crime is going to happen.