I have compared two stills from my opening with two stills from se7en. After watching the opening of se7en I realised that similar film language was used to represent the social groups I our case it is ‘good and bad’. In both of the films close ups ad extreme close ups were used in the shots of the villains, this was to create a sense of mystery ad suspense . In our film we revealed part of our characters face so you could see she was a female character, whereas in se7en all you could see is the persons hand it was more ambiguous which caused the audience to wonder. We chose to reveal the villain at the end of our film I think this shocked the audience as a young woman could be doing such crimes ad it makes them question who is really ‘bad’. Because there was so may close ups of the hands you could tell that the character I ‘se7e’ as a ma and the character I ‘pen friends’ was a woman. This is unusual because I films stereotypically me are usually the villains. The language of the shots helps the audience to realise that the characters are disturbed ad possibly evil as the close ups show the efforts they are going to harm other people.
Similarly in both of the films the victim is represented as a valuable sleeping female character. The shots are mid-shots and the angle of the camera makes the characters seem even more valuable. I our film we used parallel editing to make it obvious to the audience that the two people are connected. Whereas in ‘se7en’ the other person is revealed at the end. A difference between our scenario and the opening of ‘pen friends’ is you find out the victim is aware that someone is out to get them whereas in ‘se7en’ we assume the victim is unaware.
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