Research into Titles

As part of researching into films, we looked at how film titles have been constructed particularly in the film Se7en. The font used is created by hand, with a mix of the Helvetica style of writing (Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface.)

The titles are laid out on a black background, although some of them appear over the top images added to the clip, such as pictures of post mortems and scrap books. This may help to connote elements of the plot, such as plotting murders in a clever but psychotic way, as post mortems are needed to determine a person's death. There are elements of red shown throughout the opening, connoting blood, death and danger. The creators of 'Se7en' were the first producers to use the white scratchy hand-designed font used in the opening. Although, in modern times we may come across fonts very similar to 'Se7ven' as improved editing software and technology means that it has become a lot more easier to replicate the font used in 'Se7en'