My film intro was recorded on my phone, with the help of Vincent Walters while me and Ghita Chriqi starred in the film itself. Unfortunately, due to our circumstances, we weren't able to follow the original storyboard we had planned. We decided to change the story- although last minute- it worked out in the end. The final film can be seen in my "Film Intro" blog.
New Story
The new story follows Ghita, playing a character named Shane who receives a palm reading from an alien fortune teller. The Alien recognizes Shane's implied relationship issues which Shane refuses to open up about. The Alien offers a special drink that would supposedly "fix all her problems"- Shane blindly drinks it without thinking of the risks of danger. Suddenly, Shane must go due to personal matters.
While Shane was walking away from The Alien, Shane all of a sudden got dizzy and fell to the floor. The Alien is seen walking behind the fallen Shane before it pans to a shot of them laughing and it cuts off as a cliffhanger- leaving the end up to an interpretation.
The Process
Before we started filming, I did the alien makeup in the TY park bathroom (which can be seen in my "Film Intro Costume Designing" blog) before we walked around to find a spot to film. Vincent filmed all the cinematograph for the film.
Editing
The editing behind the intro was relatively easy and simple. I was in charge of the editing, and I used Adobe Premiere Pro and Videostar Pro. Unfortunately, my computer could not run most of Adobe's features so I had to rely on Videostar Pro. All text and effects were done with Videostar while the sequencing of clips was done on Adobe.
The trickiest part was the masking in the first clip, where the text transitioned into more text as the tree panned across the screen. Other than that, all effects and text were easy to implement into our film.
