Se7en- Location&Setting

Location& Setting

Director : David Fincher

Movies he has directed : Alien 3, The Game, Benjamin Butler, The Girl with the Dagon Tattoos, Gone girl, Zodiac, Fight Club, Social Network.

Scene 1 (Exterior Scene)

• The buildings/ apartment looks worn and old 
• looks like in the 90s
• in the city but in a poorer area
• there are bars separating the building and outside making it look like a cage
• Colour palette are not very colourful/dull (e.g. green, brown, grey)
• The atmosphere is gloomy due to the lack of sunlight and rain. 
• It is unsafe/ busy
• there were people walking pass them(workers)
•  there are also police in the scene that was bringing out a dead body and guarding the apartment entrance door to where the murder happened.
• Aggressive- people pushing through when walking by
• Diegetic Sound of cars/ amulance 

Scene 2 (Somerset's Room)

• Old fashioned cloths
• Lacking of colour
• White
• Brown
• Beige
• Diegetic sounds
• cars
• the outside sounds of neighbors talking, even though he is in the walls of his house he is still being disturb by the 'city' (it's presence is there, he can't escape it
• Violence- Flick knife, which is seen is that the world outside is dangerous to the point where you need to keep a knife incase you are attacked)
• He's a very clean and organized person, he has the control over the house and his belongs of where it should be.

Scene 3 (Tracey Somerset scene)

• Violence/Cruel world - Somerset and Tracy were talking about abortion and what Somerset said basically says that this world is terrible. He made his partner abort his child because he doesn't want the little being to born into this world.
• Reaction shot - sad/lost of hope
• Diegetic sounds of plates/cutlery clanging - its crowded, not clean, not very appealing