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    Analysis of Opening Sequence: Location/Setting

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    The film begins with detectives David Mills and William Somerset arguing at a crime scene in an unnamed city. Mills is young and cocky, while Somerset is preparing to retire. The scene establishes their partnership as Somerset must mentor Mills. Close-ups and shot reverse shots are used to convey the characters' personalities and set the tone of mystery through their discussion in the rain amid urban decay.

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    The film begins with detectives David Mills and William Somerset arguing at a crime scene in an unnamed city. Mills is young and cocky, while Somerset is preparing to retire. The scene establishes their partnership as Somerset must mentor Mills. Close-ups and shot reverse shots are used to convey the characters' personalities and set the tone of mystery through their discussion in the rain amid urban decay.

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    The film begins with detectives David Mills and William Somerset arguing at a crime scene in an unnamed city. Mills is young and cocky, while Somerset is preparing to retire. The scene establishes their partnership as Somerset must mentor Mills. Close-ups and shot reverse shots are used to convey the characters' personalities and set the tone of mystery through their discussion in the rain amid urban decay.

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    Analysis of Opening Sequence: Location/Setting

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    The film begins with detectives David Mills and William Somerset arguing at a crime scene in an unnamed city. Mills is young and cocky, while Somerset is preparing to retire. The scene establishes their partnership as Somerset must mentor Mills. Close-ups and shot reverse shots are used to convey the characters' personalities and set the tone of mystery through their discussion in the rain amid urban decay.

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    Analysis of Opening Sequence

    The film I have chosen: Se7en


    Se7en is a 1995 thriller, which is about two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer
    who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. Se7en has sub genres, not only is it a thriller but its a crime and action film.

    Location/Setting: The film starts off with two characters, the main character Brad Pitt
    who plays Detective David Mills; it also involves Morgan Freeman who plays Detective Lt. William Somerset. The film starts off with those two introducing themselves to each other, which foreshadows a partnership in the future considering the type of film this is. The scene is located in an unknown city and is at a crime scene where both Mills and Somerset are arguing with each other. The film has started off on a negative note which also suggests that something bad is going to happen and cause them to resolve their problems to overcome the problem.

    Character: In an unidentified city of constant rain and urban decay, Detective William
    Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is preparing to retire and leave the horrors of the city. Before he does so he is partnered with Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt), a cocky, young and Shorttempered cop. The scene continues on and Detective Somerset is lying down in his bed and is preparing for bed, there is a lot of background noise and a constant tick of a metronome which contradicts each other and shows conventions that there is a mystery needed to be solved in the film.

    Conventions: After watching the opening scene over and over again we see more of
    Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) I believe that the protagonist is actually Detective Somerset and I believe this because Somerset is retiring and Mills is partnered with him so hes becoming the teacher and helping Mills learn the trade of being a detective. In this case he is portrayed as the good character as he is the detective trying to solve the case and free the world from the killer.

    Shots: The opening scene has various shot including many close ups these are used to help
    show the audience what kind of character we are getting from the actors, which will help to audience make their own conventions from the body language and facial expressions of the characters. It also shows a few shot reverse shots which show and explain to the audience that there is a conversation going on between the two characters, also these shots are more open which allow the audience to see the location and depict what message the director is trying to portray through the first opening two minutes.

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