9 key shots of a crime-thriller film: Se7en.

This is the first shot that the audience see. It is a Medium Close up of a book, and the book is mainly of a black colour. The black signifies mystery and also evil. Because the audience so far know nothing about the film, this shot makes the curious about what is in the book.

This shot is a close up of someone cutting off their fingerprints with a razor/blade. This shot is quite disturbing, and instantly makes the audience wonder what he's done so that he has to cut off his fingerprints. 

This is a close up shot of a baby being tortured. This shot was put in here to scare the audience, but it is only up for a flash of a second, so only there if you're really looking for it. This is primarily here to scare the audience.

This shot is an extreme close up of the main character writing in the journal we saw at the beginning. Nothing is really in focus, apart from writing at the side of the journal, and it makes the audience curious as to what is being written in the journal. This shot has a lot of grey in it, and I think it represents how reserved the film makers want the character to seem. 

Because this shot is quite dark, it makes the shot very mysterious. The audience want to know what photo he is cutting up, and why he's cutting it. 

This shot is a brilliant shot because it makes the audience really want to know whats going on. They can see all the writing that the character is putting into the journal, it makes the audience think he's either planning something or confessing something, and you can see that he is still writing, so it's obviously important.

Its in this shot that you start to wonder whether or not the character is a murderer. He starts by crossing out the eyes of this child, and then it snaps to him crossing out his whole face. This symbolises the death of this person. The shot is also souly focussed on the picture, which makes it seem like it's important information.

In this shot you see the character sewing up the journal that he was just writing in. He's sewing it together, which shows the audience he's finished his task, but again, makes them wonder what he's doing.

This is one of the final shots of the opening. In it, you see rows and rows of different journals, and the audience then realise that he's been journaling something, and making a variety of journals, so whatever it is that he is documenting, he has done a lot of times, and will probably do again. This then creates a storyline.