NC Technical Analysis - Seven

In the opening scene of 'Seven' the cuts and music is used to give the sense of things speeding up, The non-diegetic music starts of with a quiet, slow pulse with weird sounds and as the time goes on the pulse and beat picks up speed and the sound slowly gets louder, yhe music gains speed whilst the cutting rythm and speed picks up pace too. The different clips fade in and out of black which adds to the seemingly dark mood of the sequence. The sequence of clips doesn't clearly tell us what is going on, it only gives us clues, we see the man opening a book, sewing, using a black pen to mark over words and cutting out pieces of pictures and money, the cuts inbetween these clips are all either matched cuts or fades to black, the matched cuts gives the effect that this is all going on with one person and all inside one room. The sequence leaves the audience wanting to know more and intrigued into what is going on.