The opening sequence in Se7en represents the Crime Thriller drama well in a variety of ways. The purpose of the opening sequence is to grab the audience’s attention; this has been done by making us question what he’s doing with all this torture equipment. The convention of this sequence reinforces the genre with the torture weapons, the criminal records and the interesting books he’s reading from with diagrams in and the effects. The shots are all point of view shots and are never of anything but objects, this infers to us that we are the ones doing something and lets us in on a secret. The angles are all high angles the consistency of the cinematography focuses our attention on the props and not things such as the movement or people. The setting is all at one big white desk with dim lighting focusing on certain objects, the lighting leaves shadows which make it look eerie, this reinforces the genre again. The only character in the opening sequence isn’t revealed to us, we only see their hands; this leaves an element of mystery and foreboding and suggests that this is who the film is going to be about and their identity will not be revealed until the very end as the film unravels. The text in this film is an interesting font, black and flickers. The flickering of the text looks like a broken lamp which reinforces the genre. The pace of this is fairly quick, not noticeably fast but it does help to build suspense and keep the audience interested in the props within the opening scene. The transitions are quick and the sound is all non-diegetic. We can’t hear anything that the person within the scene is doing all we can hear is creepy techno music and then occasionally a strange sound effect like a screech or a bang. This fits the Barthes theory of the enigma code and portrays a mystery.