Kyle Cooper is a title sequence designer. He designed the title sequence for the crime movie Se7en in 1995. He has said that when he made the title sequence he wanted to raise the bare creatively for that kind of work. He definitely achieves this in those two mind-blowing minutes. And these two minutes I’m going to tell you all about.
I want to start with what we actually see before I get to the music. There happens a lot in these two minutes, if you watch it once you’ll probably end up thinking that it was quite confusing and have a lot of questions but if you look closely you get the opposite a lot of information.
The hole sequence is close ups, which makes the audience think about what he is doing rather than who the person is. In the begging we see a book with empty pages that as wee see later get filled up. It starts out with a picture of some hands, were afterwards he razors his finger prints off, so that whatever he is doing cannot get traced back to him. He is planning something and is putting a lot of effort into it. He is preparing this book which probably is going to be used later in the movie as an explanation. We see in some of the shots that he is crossing out words in a text like pregnant, intercourse and transsexual which could mean that he is very religious and in some way finds it offending and wrong.
The actual titles in the movies start out as if they’ve been written on a typewriter like the one I am using now. But this is only with the titles like ‘New Line Cinema Presents’. When it comes to the names, for example when it says Brad Pitt it is probably the smallest his name has ever been written in a movie. It doesn’t look typed, it almost looks as if it has been hand written on a paper and then scanned in. The way it’s written reminds us of the way that the character is writing in the sequence. When the names come up they are written in white, and they all are written differently. Some are close together some far apart. The text lights up and mirrors itself; sometimes it looks like it’s being scanned. They are all different places they don’t just come up in the middle and then goes on to the next one. Meaning that there is a lack of continuity and that adds a lot of confusion to it.
There is used the colour red, which is very common in a crime movie. At 0.50 there is a drop of blood falling on to his paper. There is also used red lighting sometimes, or after the normal colour of the picture has been shown it comes back again in red and then we are shown some film after. This could mean that he is developing some pictures that he has taken and developing them in a dark room, before he sticks them in his book.
The light flashes as if it came from a camera. In the beginning we see a close up of a dollar zoomed in on the writing ‘In god we trust’ in which he later cuts god out of. By being shown the same images we feel how he has progressed through is work. As it is shown where the god word is cut out, in the music they say ‘you get me closer to god’ and then it stops.
The music is very intense. You could get the chills from hearing it, without watching the scene. So when you do put it together it strengthens the moment. There is a specific beat in the music throughout but there is added more sound the further you come in the scene it specifically starts from 1.13. It is right when we see a picture of a person who’s eyes he has just crossed out, and then it cuts to where he has crossed out the whole picture. In the music there is a sound that I think sounds like a forwarding sound, which relates to when they film him writing you see it and then it cuts to were he has written further even though you can still se the old clip.
Here is the title sequence
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