Intro to Intro

An Intro to an Intro

Film opening. 2 minutes. About 5 weeks or so. What could go wrong?

As we quickly got into our groups for the film opening, we discovered that everybody had delightful ideas. A film opening is an introduction to a whole film. It's used to hook the audience and bring them in the world the characters dwell. This way, the audience can learn more about the characters, but enough that will make them want to find out more. If you can hook the audience in the first minute, then you have a solid movie.

For this project, the goals that I have in my group is to tell a story in the first 2 minutes that would impact the audience to learn more. The lingering curiosity that the viewer might have may result in a well made intro to intro. I hope to learn how to get the audience into the story in the first minute and keep them until the very last. With that spark of life that the first frame emits, the scene should have an establishing tone where we find out where and why are we here. What's the point of this and why am I wasting 2 minutes of my precious time to see this. If you catch them there, then the audience will want to learn more and maybe even stay for 5 minutes, 10 minutes. 30 minutes. 60 minutes, or hopefully 90 minutes.

This film opening is a good introduction on how to value the time you are given with and how to entertain the audience in a short amount of time. I hope to realize which techniques work and which ones don't. Overall, I hope to learn how to make a good beginning so I can make a good middle and a good ending.