Understanding Sub genre

Phychological Thriller Audience Research

Rear Window (Opening Scene

Camera

Pan x Tilt

Shows environment

o   Summer

-       rising tension

-       hot (thermometer)

o   Closed courtyard  

o   Urban/city

o   Open window à morning

o   40’s/50’s

o   Broken leg à accident photographer à bomb à

o   L.B. Jefferies

o   Diegetic

o   Alarm bell

o   Radio à are you over 40? Are you tried and listless

o   Location : Shot of action ,racing car , fire ,explosion bomb

o   Negative portrait / Portrait magazine

Miss Tousle

Women

Getting ready in her underwear à no privacy

Se7en Character Analysis

Mills –

 Aggressive mad angry Impatient – kick down the door of suspect/he shouts/he swears (M.I.L.L.S    ‘F**K OFF’)

Violent physically push photographer down the stair

, Emotional, passion

 ,kind, gentle – with his wife , hug his wife

Love dogs – energetic way – rolls around with dogs

Confidents – hero, believe he can fix thing

His crime is wrath

“Make a difference “

acts an impulse ‘’feeding off emotions”

“hero”

Naïve à justice à happy

Somerset

-Clam, patient

-Think thing through consequence

-Keep a grip on his emotional

-Neat precise how he dressed – pick fluff off jacket, clean coffee jar, lays out at wallet badge knife very precisely

-Quitting –‘the world is messed up -> APATHY(people see crime and do not thing about it,don’t care about it)   - police fix clean up(cant be done)

“People don’t care therefore you don’t care about people”

-patient

Seven Location and setting

Location and Setting of SEVEN

 Directed by David Fincher 

Exterior 

In a city (intercity)

street side (build up area ) high rise

poorer area 

old area

barred up window 

conventional area for crime

busy city

unsafe - diegetic sound of siren

           -dead body being carried out

Rainy - cloudy , gloomy,oppressive 

trashy,cheap,old, depressing 

garbage around

ingressive - man pushes past

colour - palette green brown grey 

Somerset Room 

Old fashioned - clothes 

Lacking colours - white brown beige 

Diegetic sound - car outside 

The city is shall present even in his own place 

Violence - flick knife

•    implies outside is dangerous  

scene 3

Talk about pregnancy (new life)

-reaction 

•     sorrow 

•    should you let it happen?

Iracey - ‘temble place 

a worldd like this 

-should you bring a child

-violence ->abortion -> destroying new life 

in the restaurant 

busy sound plate folk spoon plate order bell person walk pass music playing background beeping car siren police