Editing and Meaning in a Thriller Genre

Aloha!

During this week of lessons, I learnt many new things. For example, the Kuleshov Effect, the Niche genre and the editing and meaning that takes place in a thriller genre

This blog is about, as you already guessed, Editing and Meaning in a Thriller Genre.

To start off, as a class, we watched the opening of the movie "se7en". Which I must say is very gruesome.

 As well as that, our teacher had asked us to answer some questions whilst watching the opening. They were: 

1. How does the editing construct meaning in the opening sequence of "se7en"?

To answer this, the beginning of the movie, an eerie music is added in to give the audience a sense of suspense and unnatural behavior. In addition, the introduction is full of different shots and scenes of things going on. For example, blades and writing, a lot of artsy action like sticking images on paper and looking at video reels. This leads the audience to think about the man is really doing and feel obliged to watch the whole movie. 

2.  How does the opening titles of se7en communicate meaning about the killer?

The opening titles of the movie is practically like telling a story as it starts off with an empty book and ends with the book almost full. The shots in between show the book in progress of filling up. For example, a person holding a pen and writing within the book and pages being turned.
Furthermore, there is change in dynamics with the sound being played in the background. If listened closely, the beginning of the clip has slow and mysterious music but the end has violent and compelling music. This could explain a lot about the character; his thoughts or even actions. 

Overall, this opening clip helped me to understand that the opening of a movie is immensely important as the scene of the entire movie is set and is where the audience decides whether they want to watch the movie or not. 


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