Se7en Opening Credits

Se7en Opening Credits

In the opening credits of Se7en shows John Doe (Kevin Spacey) preparing for his murders and setting himself for them. Doe is shown doing such things as removing his skin off of his finger tips, which foreshadow what later on in the film and why that has some relevance to the film. Doe is shot writing down onto a notepad, which is later discovered in the film to be about  his fellings and that he believes these murders are cleaning the world of sin and evil people. The fact that Doe's face is never shown in the opening credits, suggests that his identity is to be kept a secret, which adds to the suspense and emphasises the eerie atmosphere of the opening credits.

The scene is also partnered by distorted, non-diagetic background music which is used  to create suspense  amongst the audience. Everytime the visual credits stutter, the music stutters in correlation with the music as they both start to 'glitch out', creating a more dark and sinister tone for the rest of the film.

Opening Titles
New Line Cinema Presents:
An Arnold Kopesoln Production
A film by David Fincher
Brad Pitt - Actor
Morgan Freeman - Actor
Se7en - Movie Title
Gwyneth Paltrow - Actress
Richard Roundtree - Actor
R. Lee Ermey - Actor
John C. Mcginley - Actor
Julie Araskog - Actress
Mark Boone Junior - Actor
John Cassini - Actor
Reginald E.Cathey -Actor
Peter Crombie - Actor
Hawthorne James -Actor
Michael James - Actor
Leland Orser -Actor
Richard Portnow - Actor
Richard Schiff - Actor
Pamala Tyson - Actress
Casting by -Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith and Kerry Borden
Music by - Howard Shore
Costumes Designed by Michael Kaplan
Edited by - Richard Francis-Bruce
Prodcution designed by - Arthur Max
Director of Photography - Darius Khondji
Co-Producers; Stephen Brown, Nana GreenWald and Sanford Panitch
Co-Executive Producers - Lynn Harris and Richard Saperstein
Executive Producers - Gianni Nunnari, Dan Kolsrud and Anne Kopelsun
Produced by - Arnold Kopelson and Phyllis Carlyle
Directed by - David Fincher