Camera Shot/Angle/Movement
The camera shots in panic room are quite long as all the shots are high angle shots of big building. The camera also takes a while to cut between shots compared to the style of the camera in Se7en which is very quick and constant between shots.
As they are mostly extreme close shots and the fast pace is needed to emphasize the activities of the character.
Sound
The sound in Se7en is very organized as in all the shots where the character is either stitching something or cutting paper etc the sound also matches what the character is doing.
But in Panic Room the sound is very different as it is the same all the way through the opening sequence and builds in pace slowly.
Editing
The editing in Panic Room isn’t much as the shots are long and there are hardly any cuts between shots compared to Se7en which cuts from shot to shot about every five second.
Mise en Scene
The mise en scene in Panic Room is very natural with shots of the big building and the skyline of New York/California.
The time of day featured in Panic Room suggest a bit that something sinister is going to happen compared to Se7en which doesn’t really have much lighting and has odd colours such as white, beige, grey and black.
The colours and the surrounding of the character which contains things like photographs, books etc suggest things like crime, blood and death.
Characters
The main characters in Panic Room are not quite clear until the end of the opening sequence where we see two people talking but they still might not be the main characters they might just be two people talking that have nothing to do with the movie but that is only found out by watching further on into the movie.
In Se7en although we don’t see any characters faces we can establish who the main character is by all the several activities we see on the screen and from that we might conclude he/she must be of significant important to the film.
The differences are that we see some part of the character in Se7en whereas in Panic Room we don’t see anyone till the end.
Locations
The location of Panic Room is quite obvious as the shots were of the big buildings in the skyline of New York/ California compared to Se7en where the location is not so clear the only thing we can gather is that it is set in a dark secluded room.
Narrative/Plot
In Se7en as there is no speech it isn’t easy for us to establish what it is about but from what the character is doing on the screen we can gather that he/she his putting together something that the film will base around.
In Panic Room the plot isn’t so clear so as well but as all the shots contain buildings it hints at the title.
Themes
In Se7en there is various clues to the theme of the movie as many shots contain razors, blade, needles, odd pictures which suggest the theme about crime and murder compared to Panic Room which as not clues at all to the theme but we guess that it is about crime.
Visual Style
The visual style of Panic Room is very calm and slow as each shots ends with slow building music.
Se7en has really fast cutting shots that is very different from most films
Genre
Panic Room doesn’t really have any of the stereotypical conventions as the scenes don’t have blood or anything that suggest violence.
Se7en has a lot of common conventions as it features sharp objects such as razor blades etc which suggest that it’s a thriller.
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