Audience – the audience might be around age 18 – 40 as the character mill ( Brad Pit) was famous at that point and lots of audience might want to watch the movie because he is set as this crazy funny guy and pretty much a sex symbol.
Seven uses mise-en-scene to suggest different characteristics for the two different characters. Through the mise-en-scene you can tell that the two policemen are binary opposites. As Brad Pitt is the trendy cop with the unique costume and attitude and chewing gum. Pairing these two characters together creates conflict between the two characters adding an element of drama to the film. One could be referred to a protagonist and the other as an antagonist. These contrasting characters at the beginning create an enigma, to interest the audiences to see the further complications.
The setting starts off with Somerset’s house, which comes across as a very neat tidy organised house; this is a complete contrast to the typical thriller which starts off with dark gloomy settings. Then we see a complete different setting of the house where the crime is located. The house the crime took place is in immediately all Smokey, undecorated and has a dull, gloomy aspect towards it. This suggests that something terrible happened there. The detectives then leave the house and walk into the typical urban city. This gives the audience an idea of the location. That it is based around the poorer areas of a city in America, with heavy rain pouring down in a very low class, untidy city.
Narrative - this is a non- leaner movie as some of the information that was in the movie I think would have been in the past.
Mise – en – scene - within this movie the filter in the camera is sepia which is made up of grimy and dirty browns, this makes the audience feel nauseous and uneasy, and through the 15 minute you could see that the atmosphere was dark and gloomy. Personally I will say he mise-en-scene in this movie is very dark and dull, but also the movie shows that Somerset has a very basic living style and also him having the light on will also show that he is scared of the dark I think this is because of his job because he see bad things all day and it makes him scared.
Weather – the rain was so intents as it was pouring heavily and I think they did this on purpose as I might have seem they didn’t want the audience to hear much as they audience might want to hear something but the movie maker made the rain heavy on purpose so the audience don’t hear much for reason or I might have been the want the audience to have that felling that this rain is real heavy.
Camera/ editing - use of camera used is the close-up shots. This draws the attention of the audience to significant objects that are important to the plot of the story such as in the opening sequence extreme close ups shot are used widely throughout the clip. At the beginning of the clip the first shot is an extreme close up shot of the top of a thick book with a hand blurred in the background. The audience first question the relevance of the book, what book it is, why they are reading it and who is reading it. However the shots are quick and quickly cut to the next shot in a matter of seconds. Leaving the audience little time to create more questions just based on the book. The jump cuts adds tension as they are very sudden changes, it makes the audience feel wary. when the titles appear there are flashes of light in which you can see an unclear picture. the titles also seem to shake which add to the strangeness.
Sound – Another aspect which helps build tension through the opening sequence is the use of sound. Later on in the clip we hear screaming and siren indicating that, the area is very dangerous as Somerset wants piece and quiet but he cant have it as it very noisy outside, he then used a metronome so that he can only hear that sound and not the other crazy sound that are going on outside.
Enigmas – there will a lot of thing they audience might want to know more about what is going to happen. For example, why did the fat guy die and will mill/ Somerset find the murderer?
