Thriller Research

 Seven

The opening sequence for 'Seven' (Kyle Cooper) has an eerie feel to it from the start. The music starts off soft and seems to build up as the sequence continues. The music is a series of electronic or machine-like sounds that makes the audience feel uneasy. The constant beat in the background gives the whole thing a clockwork feel as though the piece of cinema is going somewhere and is going to climax. About 58 seconds in the machine-like sounds are lost and sounds resembling wind are used, when this is done the same drum beat is still kept in the background. At 1:10 this drum beat fades further into the background as the music comes in harder and has more of a rock style to it over the top. This gives the audience a feeling of fear, as they feel they feel they are being attacked.

The images and titles in this scene also portray the eerie feel that the music does. The images flash between books, disfigured body parts and a man playing with machinery. This explains the music from before. Over this we have distorted text for the titles, as though someone has scribbled them on. Later we see a pen hovering over a book and certain words being crossed out, this is an unusual thing to do, and by doing something out of the ordinary an audience would feel out of their comfort zone.

Orphan

The music for the start of the 'Orphan'(Jaume Collet-Serra) starts off hard hitting and eerie. The music does not build, but rather keeps the audience at a constant state of worry. The change in the music is with the changing title, as titles change the transition matches with a noise. An almost flickering sound to go with a flickering transition pairs the two and takes the audience away from the normality of the child's drawings they see. Over the 'normal' children's pictures we see flicker things that are not seen as normal, such as the people are suddenly on fire, or are being stabbed with scissors. This makes the audience feel uneasy. Later we see a house full of people, that suddenly with the flickering sound is up in flames with the people dead. I think this opening shows a thriller perfectly, because it takes the normality of a child's drawings and turns them into something sick and twisted.