* The Opening title should give an insight to what the film is about
* Think of the story before the style
* Make it interesting, the title sequence says a a lot about the film and you don't want to bore the audience in the first 4 minutes.
Opening Sequence For David Fincher's Se7en "1995"
Kyle Coopers revolutionary opening title sequence for the film Se7en is known as one of his best piece's of work yet. I think this title sequence is seen as revolutionary because it's so deep and tense and kind of confusing at the same time. The images are dark and mysterious at the beginning the first image you see is an extreme close-up of an open book and some one's hand turning the pages, the camera isn't in focus of the hand so you don't really take notice of it.
A few images later a clip i found disturbing was a close up of someone sort of playing with what looked like a Stanley knife blade with their fingers. The title sequence really makes you think what's going to happen in the film, it keeps you on edge, keeping you guessing for that 2 minutes 11 seconds. The first minute of the sequence isn't as peculiar and out of the ordinary as the last minute, it gets even more demented, there’s pictures of what i think was dead people who had been tortured. at this point you really start to wonder what the film is about there’s' so many things that pops into your head as you watch it.
The clip of the open book with it's pages being turned is shown again, and clips of a close up of someone’s hand writing on paper, so it gives you the idea of a diary. A few clips shown give you the impression some sort of religion as you see a hand crossing out words you see in the bible. All these clips show different meanings, and you cant piece the jigsaw of clips together to know what the films about with just watching the trailer, it makes you want to watch more! Kyle Cooper has made an extraordinary title sequence, it is so clever and doesn't give the film away one bit.
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