With my partner Beau we started to draw up idea's of films and which would be best to create an interesting intro, deciding that a Thriller or Mysterious film was best, we started to think of existing Thrillers that used gripping introductions. But eventually our hearts became set on the film Scarface but we used the title to make our own spoof called Scarf-ace which involves the mysterious happenings of the scarf-ace, a man specifically good at making scarf's. Our plan entailed that the introduction would involve one entrepreneur of scarf's who enters a meeting room and tries to prove to the scarf-ace that he is better, in all the commotion the scarf-ace kills the entrepreneur with his scarf's. The introduction ends with the police finally getting to the crime scene.
We set out to film this introduction with Ross Lockton, Ollie Johnson and Eugene as our actors and used our media room during a lunch time to film the starting scene. Mine and Beau's collective research showed that film introductions are all very carefully planned and carried out to gain the most interest possible before the main story line begins. We also discovered the most effective way of grabbing the audiences attention is to use an enigma code and involve some aspect of action which in turn creates mystery and then forces the audience to carry on watching to solve the problem created.
While filming we experimented with various angles and zooming for each shot to gain the best possible final shot, along side this we also examined our continuity and made sure that the position of chairs and the use of lighting didn't change. However our use of lighting was very inaccurate, without proper consideration we started to film with very lighting in the room and to follow continuity we kept the lighting the same. Overall this meant that all the shots are hard to see and the actors obscurred, if we had the chance to re-film i would employ the use of a direct light so that the actors faces could be eluminated whilst the rest of the room remained darkened.
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