Analysis of SE7EV.

My immediate reaction to Se7ev was a sense of anxiety as I was anxious to understand what was going on and i desperately wanted to understand the sinister goings on and the plot. The clip opens with a middle aged actor in his bed and lots of background noise although his room is completely silent. This immediately stuck me as his inner thoughts as there was no other explanation for the sound. The character comes across to the audience as mysterious, strange and unusual but could infact just be misinterpreted. Next he reached out and tapped his metronome which gave him a continuous, monotonous, steady beat until he fell asleep. Next the scene switched into lots of short different quick scenes which contained written credits and different hand movements such a cutting of film, razorblades scratching off skin and other crude images.  


I instantly thought that the metronome that he touches puts him into some of of weird dream. This could be the thoughts that he doesn't let out and could may be thoughts that are in his sub-conscious. Without delay my attention was then drawn to the white credits on the black background. The words were distorted but in a contradictory way as you could see the names clearer although the effect of distortion is to make something unrecognisable.  


The music kept a steady pace for the first half of the 3 minutes it gradually builds up and then completely changes to music that almost sounds reckless and out of control. It is left unexplained why the music just takes a dramatic build but in my opinion it could be explained sometime later in the film. The mood for all of the film was spooky, eerie and all quite perverted in a way as the man who was being shown in the clips was looking at sick things e.g. pictures of dead people who died in gruesome ways.


In terms of scenery the room that the character is staying in is very dark and uses a lot of plain colours like brown and white and black. This could mirror and set out to emphasise his dull personality. 


Lastly the camera angles are mainly mid shots and there are a few reflective shots used. The editing is kept very plain, using colours such as black and white with a hint of red every so often.