http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY
Lighting:
(0-6
seconds)
The
first shot you see in the opening titles of se7en has high key
lighting in the background. But in the foreground the lighting is low
key. I get the impression there is a window in the background with
the object (book) resulting to the foreground being low key. There is
a brown tint to the lighting almost like a mild sepia affect was
used.
(8-11
seconds)
The
next shot we see is very low key in places particularly near the
edges of the shot. There is a use of shadows as well emphasising
movement.
(11-13)
It
then continues to another shot with similar lighting to the first
scene, fairly natural although the camera angle is of a close up of
objects moving so the lighting in the location is difficult to see,
but you get the sense that the lighting is high key enabling the
audience to see the objects.
(14-17
seconds)
Yet
again the lighting is high key but not too bright with a similar tint
as previously used, and the same affect with a window possibly being
in the background. The colours are very neutral in this shot.
(19-23)
there is very fast camera work again and it switches between high
and low key lighting fast. It starts with high key lighting with a
slight blue tint emphasising the water in the shot. Then it flashes
to low key lighting with dark grey tinting. Then quickly back to high
key again but still not very bright.
(25-30)
start
of high key lighting then a shadow appears diagonally across the
page. Then at 30 seconds in the lighting is very low key, you can
only see the silhouette of the person in the scene.
(32-38)
high
key lighting, projected onto the page of writing maybe a reading lamp
although it still looks like natural daylight. Then at 36 seconds the
lighting is low key but with a vibrant red tint.
(39-50)
the
lighting is similar throughout this section of the opening titles,
natural daylight with yellow glow tints.
(51-53)
Then
the lighting is very high key when the pages of the book are being
turned like a light is behind them casting a hand shadow through the
page.
(1.00-1:01)
the
lighting is bright again and creating more shadows from objects like
the pen the actor is writing with.
(1.03-1.03)
The
first scene is repeated of the book.
(1:10-1.14)
Here
the lighting is low key apart from a circle of high key light
surrounding a image of a man. It then flashes up a red light covering
the frame.
(1:16-1:19)
there
is a red light, I can see this is the light they use is a dark room
(photo room) when developing a photo.
(1.19- 1.30)
The lighting is all day
light affect with neutral tints.
(1.30-1.31)
The light flashes red
tint again.
(1.31- 1.43)
the lighting is similar
again (high key).
(1.44-1.45)
the lighting then goes
back to a very low key with lighter areas where shadows are moving at
fast speed revealing some light.
(1:47-2.03)
lighting goes back to
natural glow high key but not bright until end of opening titles.
(As the titles appeared
there were flashes of very high key lights, appearing at high speed
and vanishing within in seconds almost like a camera flash.)
Camera Work:
0-6 seconds
Close up shot of book
pages. Facing onwards on to the book.
8-12 seconds
Aerial shot showing
drawings of hands.
12-13 seconds
extreme close up of
hands turning a bolt
extreme close up of
metal objects.
15-17 seconds
extreme close up of hands holding a scalpel.
20-21
close up aerial shot of a piece of paper in water.
21-21
fast aerial camera angle of a photo of a man.
21-23
Aerial camera angle showing liquid with red tinting maybe used as blood
25-31
POV (point of view) shot/aerial angle looking down on to a hand moving a lid off a box.
27-29
aerial shot of hand opening the box and looking in.
29-30
Face on view mid close up onto someone's hands flicking pages of a book.
31-35 seconds
Side angle mid close up of pen writing on paper
36-36
extreme close up on hand writing
36-38
aerial shot of photo.
The camera work in the opening shows a variety of different angles, from high crane shots, point of view shots, low angle shots, and face on. As you can see the beginning (not finished)
Setting and Props:
(0-6 seconds)
The prop is a book that appears to be quite old and looks mistreated;
the pages look damaged and frail. They also look discolored possibly from the
sun causing them to appear faded. The setting is hard to see, the camera shot
is a close up of the prop that is positioned in the centre of the page.
Although there is a high key light in the background that makes me think there
is a window creating the book to almost have a silhouette but the light wasn’t
strong enough to create it to have a black outline. The book is also lying on
top of something I’m guessing a desk.
(7-11 seconds)
The next prop is a detailed drawing of hands on lined graph paper. The
main focus is on the drawing so we are not able to see the surroundings but
again it looks like its placed on top of another object maybe a table or desk.
(12- 13)
Here we can’t see the surroundings, as it’s an extreme close up. The
prop is a metal bolt like object that looks dirty. The shot continues and we
see more mechanical objects twisting and turning up close, the setting still
not visible.
(16-18)
It flicks quickly to another scene the prop used; a sharp scalpel. Here
we see how the scalpel is cutting through the tip of a finger.
(19-23)
Here we can see a pool of water. There is a sheet of paper that is being
pulled through the water. Then a fast shot of a picture of a mans face. Then
back to some water with red coloring it, which looks like blood.
(26-32)
In this scene we still cant see the surrounding but a vast amount of
props are used mainly books.
(32-36)
Here we see more books and a pen writing on a page information.
(36-38)
Here we have a quick scene of what looks like a dark room used for
photography with a image of a man in some sort of photo developing liquid.
(39-50)
props used in these sections
photo films at 39 seconds
scissors at 39 seconds
photos of man 41 seconds
book 41 seconds
celeotape over metal 43 seconds
small photos 43 seconds
scissors 43 seconds
money 46 seconds
black and white photo of a man 48 seconds
newspaper 49 seconds
(51-52)
prop – book pages being turned.
(1:00-1:08)
Props – pen crossing out words in a book.
A pregnancy book with words crossed out.
(1:10 – 1:13)
Props –
Picture of mans face
Pen scribbling out the face with lines.
(1:15)
- more pages of
writing.
(1:16 – 1:18)
More photo’s being developed in a dark room, I can tell this by the red
lighting and the photos being dipped in the photo developing liquid substance.
(1:26-1:29)
Here we see a mental object with hocks coming off it and someone’s hand
layering it on to some paper.
(1:30)
More pages of writing.
And a clip of the dark room again.
(1:31 – 1:34)
photo’s of people in a photo book.
(1:37)
someone’s hand covered in plasters
