Thriller Documentary

       During the production of this Thriller Documentary I had found out that a lot of  the males have chosen thrillers as their favourite film genre along side with comedy. This conforms the idea for me that males are more into some kind of action that will keep them off their seats.

       The favourite film genre for woman are mostly comedy and as well thriller. I also found out from the people I interviewed that the woman liked horror and science-fiction, this subverts the idea of the stereotypical idea of woman who only like comedies and romantic films.

     While the interview was going on I figured out that both the men and women like thrillers that have a decent amount of action going on that will keep them on the edge of their seats. They both also are looking for a good plot and storyline which have a lot of shocking twists and turns in it to keep them entertained. For some people they want for the film to catch their attention in the first 10 minutes of the film, otherwise they might even stop watching the film e.g. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. All of these aspects conforms the idea of a perfect thriller.

My First Group's Thriller Idea

Incorporating Se7en into our Opening Thriller Sequence

From the opening sequence in Se7en I have I have a couple of ideas on continuing to creating our thriller idea even better. While I had been analysing the title sequence of Se7en I realised to create an intenseful opening sequence we are supposed to include more fast cuts to give more of a feeling of danger and where it would keep the audience on the edge of their seats. I also noticed that they include the names of the creators of the film when ever they have the chance in very fitting places. I had an idea of adding all the names in the movie into the actual scene where it would have motion with it, meaning that if there would be a car filmed using a hand held shot we would be able to go into After Effects and use motion track to track the text layer to the motion of the scene.

Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper was born in 1962 and he is a inspirational icon to anyone who would want to pursue to be a graphic designer. He had been taught in Yale school of art where he had been taught by Paul Rand, from his teachings he was able to receive a M. F. A. in graphic designing.


For his opening title sequences he had used fast cuts to express the movies path, if the movie were to have slow cuts it would show that the movie will be more of a slow not as suspenseful, if the movie would use fast cuts then the viewer could tell that it would be more suspenseful and more exciting. One of his main editing techniques are using many over-layered shots to show how many twists and turns the movie will encounter.

Throughout his lifetime he had created approximately 150 opening title sequences, he had done a lot of work for a lot of well known movies for example he had done the opening sequences for Dawn of the Dead, Superman, Spiderman, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc... He has been most memorable when he had created the opening sequence in the movie Se7en. By having shots over-layered it helps to give a creative effect to highlight the mysterious psychopath.

In the opening title sequence of the movie "Se7en" created by Kyle Cooper you are able to tell that there is an phsycotic killer at work and he it trying to find and kill someone. By using all these type of close-ups of cutting pieces of paper, writing, highlighting, etc… it is possible to tell that that one person is planing to do something, and judging by the dark intense music it would be a plan involving a murder. The main actor had also dirty hands which looked like he had worked for hours help sell the look of a psychopathic killer.

From Coopers work on this opening title sequence you are able to tell that he is a genius and that he has a very special talent for this.