film

Mission Impossible 3

The beginning of this film creates huge thrill mainly because of the unknown of the audience. The first thing again to be seen is a black screen, and you hear what seems to be an electric strike and a man whaling in pain, causing the audience to feel fear. Then a question is asked which the audience would not understand because it is to do with the story line of the film. This causes the audience to want to continue watching the film to know the answer to this question. I want to cause a similar effect when doing my film.

The next shot to be seen is the main actor looking extremely distressed or in pain with blood on his face. The next shot is then his arm being handcuffed to a chair, gradually this is giving the audience clues to what is happening in this scene yet it is still unknown to why or how. Then the next shot is of what seems to be the person who caused the main actor to be strapped in the chair, as he is talking to him and asking him questions. The audience gets the idea that there is some sort of torture occurring. The thrill is increased because the audience doesn't know what is going to happen next. The shot is of the 'bad man's' face. The next shot is of the 'bad man's' lower body with a gun in his hand, triggering it. So the audience immediately knows something bad is going to happen causing even more thrill. I want to create a similar impact by using a number of different shots (with no dialogue) which show what is happening without words being said, but still doesn't show precisely what is happening which causes the audience to feel fear.

Also, at the end of this scene is where the countdown finishes. You don't find out whether she gets shot or not causing you to want to continue watching. This makes the film extremely gripping, exciting and nerve racking at the same time.

In this film to create the opening of the film they used a scene which was from the middle/end of the film so that the audience wanted to continue watching the film to find out ''why?'' ''what?'' ''who?'' etc. I would to like to make a similar impact in my film, by making the audience eager to want to see what happens next.

Also in this opening, there are two people, a man and a woman strapped to chairs face to face. The lady has a gun to her head so the audience knows something bad is going to happen. There is dialogue during this opening, but I wouldn't want to use this because I wouldn't be able to have professional actors therefore it wouldn't be that effective in my video. But I like the idea of having the countdown they use. I might use this idea but not with dialogue, maybe have numbers appear on the screen or every few moments show a clock on a wall gradually over a minute or something along those lines. Having a countdown in this scene made me as the audience feel extremely nervous, so I want might use something similar to cause the same feeling to my audience.