The opening credits colour scheme is black white with red, these colours are often used because it catches people’s eyes and they make more of an impact to the audience. It is during the credits we get introduced to the third main character, the ‘killer’. This is when you get an idea of the theme of the film and although we never see the killers face, what we do see of him/her (though it looks like a ‘him’ from the look of his hands) removing his finger tips to change his prints and cutting out disturbing images and putting them into a book. this keeps the audience watching because we want to know why he has to change he is fingerprints, and why he is putting these things in this book of his and why he keeps a book of disturbing and, what is its relevance? The music within this scene is quite creepy to start with, which may creep the audience out, but then it goes to a more of a rock tune which may give the audience a rush of adrenaline, this may make the people watching keep watching the film to see how the this ‘killer’ is going to interact with the two police officers, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt.
The opening scene of Seven focuses in on a man (played by Morgan freeman) doing his daily routine before he heads out to work, the man takes his time getting ready and is very precise where things should go; which could suggest he is a very clean and then puts on a suit, which suggests to the audience he is in a job with high importance. Diagetic sound is used in this scene to create a naturalistic setting, this scene is also very straight forward, because in reality this scene shows just a man getting ready, but when you break it down and really look at all of the details; It is quite complex in what it is representing.
As the movie progresses we see this man go into an apartment were a murder investigation of a young woman is taking place, suggesting that Morgan Freeman is playing the part of a police officer. This gives us an incite as to what the basis of this film will going be about. During this scene we meet two more characters, one of which is played by Brad Pitt; the way Brad Pitt's character is introduced the audience you can immediately see the difference in the two characters. For example Morgan Freeman's character seems firm, facts and collected. This is shown through what he is wearing, a suit that is all pristine and nothing is out of place whereas compared to Brad Pitt's character as he is laid back, go with it and cocky. Brad Pitts character seems unaware of his status at his work place, the fact that his outfit is all scruffy, the shirt hanging out and the looseness of his tie and the chewing of his gum while talking, suggest he's not to fussed about this what’s happening and just wants to get it over and done with. This could also be interpreted by the way Brad Pitt's character is talking to Morgan Freeman's character, not listening trying to tell him what will be going on from no on thinking that Morgan’s character works for him.
As the characters leave the crime scene apartment, the camera cuts to a shot of them on a city street, even though the audience isn’t told what city it is the diagetic sound we hear suggests it is a busy, suburbs which works very well in setting the overall place of the film.
We are then brought back to Morgan Freeman's character apartment at the very beginning; with him lying in bed. This scene again is very simple because all he is doing is lying in bed but it’s what he does after that that makes the audience understand his character more, as he turns the television off he turns on a metronome, the ticking noise of the metronome could be perceived as a comfort noise to him, this could foreshadow his characters actions for the rest of the film or to drown out the noise of the busy street outside.
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