Preliminary Task

This task allowed us as a group gain a stronger understanding of the effectiveness towards the 'Shot Reverse Shot' and how the '180° rule' can make a sequence of shots look more professional.


Shot Reverse Shot is commonly used in many films to show dialog and how characters respond and react to each other, the way the shot is conducted is by showing one character (Rachael) talking to another character (Zoe) and flicks between the two talking.



The 180° rule is used to ensure two characters stay on the same left and right they started on, this makes the shot understandable instead of it becoming confusing by them changing sides.



Title Sequence of Seven

• 2 Seconds - Image of a book with pages open
• 6 Seconds - Still image of a book with the writing "new line cinema presents" also on screen 
• 10 Seconds - image of a pair of hands, distorted and in black and white
• 14 Seconds - actors name appears on the screen "Brad Pitt" Black background with white creepy font
• 18 Seconds - Close up of fingers with blood and mud on them holding a small silver blade
• 22 Seconds - flashing across the screen an actors name "Morgan Freeman"
• 25 Seconds - title "se7en" flashes over a black screen with white font fading to black
• 31 Seconds - shadows flash across the screen as well as another actors name "Gwyneth Paltrow"
• 34 Seconds - close up of a pen writing on paper, 2 images of this image overlapping, so one looks like a shadow. one more actors name "Richard Roundtree"
• 37 Seconds - red filter over camera, slightly blurry picture with bits of random writing flashing across the screen
• 41 Seconds - image of scissors cutting up photography films and lots of shadows in the shot
• 46 Seconds - small photograph of a child in black and white, this is over more photographs and pages of writing
• 50 Seconds - close up of a newspaper cuttings in birds eye view, drop blood splattered on the page
• 56 Seconds - actors name "John Cassini, Reginald E. Cathey, Peter Crombie"
• 60 Seconds - extreme close up of a thumb smudging ink on a page of black writing
• 62 Seconds - black marker pen crossing out words on a page, POV shot
• 67 Seconds - writing in the background, blood like smudges in the foreground with black marker pen on top of that
• 71 Seconds - black background with an image of a boys face (drawing) in the top right hand corner, black marker pen going through his eyes. white writing "casting by..." in the foreground
• 74 Seconds - Red filter over the camera again, boys face in the same place again but
• 77 Seconds - Top half of the shot has a red filter, image of photos (darkroom) bottom half of the image is upside down of a pen writing. Writing in the foreground "music by Howard Shore"
• 87 Seconds - Close up of dirty thumbs and a line of tiny hooks, writing in foreground "production design..."
• 90 Seconds -  Books of writing with a page of handwriting on the top, the page is upside down
• 94 Seconds -  Photographs in the background, clear filter over the camera which has black smudges, marks and dots all over it. Reminds me of looking through a microscope or splattered blood
• 99 Seconds - Extreme close up of dirty thumbs playing with a needle, black background
• 103 Seconds - Lots of flashing images and quick cuts
• Last 15 Seconds - Lots more flashing images more writing including "produced by..."
  and "directed by..."
• 128 Seconds - Film Starts, end of title sequence