Lighting

The room is going to be dark but with a thin stream of bright light coming in from the side. The room fades to black occasionally with the credits flashing up. I could either use natural or artificial light, it depends where I decide to film it. If I use artificial light I could just attach a torch or something to one of the walls to give the impression of sunlight shining in from outside. I still haven't decided on a location but should be able to find one soon, I have a few ideas on where to film it.

films...

I watched the film Mulholland Drive by a director called David Lynch and found parts of it inspiring for my film. It is the story of a young woman who moves to Hollywood aspiring to be famous, but gradually realizes how corrupt Hollywood is. Her life goes downhill and she ends up going insane and killing herself. The film is a lot more complicated and confusing than that but that is the main plot. The part where she goes mad is really chilling and disturbing, I'd like to make my introduction a bit like that, except instead of killing himself the man manages to escape. 

This is the ending of Mulholland Drive..

Another film I watched is called the Twelve Monkeys and at first I thought it wouldn't be any use at all to my film but after watching half of it I found a few filming techniques that I like. The film is set in a mental asylum and the camera angles are taken from diagonals sometimes which gives a really weird interesting atmosphere. This type of shot is called an Oblique/Canted Angle and is used to suggest imbalance, transition and instability. I'm going to use a couple of these shots at the beginning of my film intro.

Setting

I'd like to use a bunker or a garage for my setting because I need a dark room with hardly any light. There is an open bunker at Gronez which I might use, I'm going to take some photos of it the next time I go.... There's going to be a mattress on the floor or a sofa and a few empty cans of food scattered around to give the impression that the man has been living here for a long time in complete darkness. The first few shots are of him sitting down with his head in his hands looking weak and scared. His clothes are old and slightly ripped and he has pale skin and dark circles under his eyes, I can use make-up to do that.

I watched the film Seven and liked some of the camera angles and settings used in it. I also liked the intro because it gave hints about the film without giving away the whole plot, which is what I want to do in my intro.
My film is going to be a psychological thriller because the main character's mental state is going to be emphasized slightly more than the plot. 

The opening sequence for Seven

Wikipedia definition of a Psychological Thriller:

"Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre. However, this genre often incorporates elements from the mystery genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre.
Generally, thrillers focus on plot over fictional characters, and thus emphasize intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters just as much, if not more so, than the plot."

First idea...

I have one idea for my film intro but I'm don't know if I'll use it yet because it might not work..
Starts off in a dark room, a shed? The music playing is a song called beside you in time by a band called nine inch nails, which is really repetitive and atmospheric.

A man is sitting down with his head in his hands, the camera is looking up at him. He's really paranoid and his thoughts keep flashing up. Has lived in this dark room for years and needs to escape. Signs that he has lived here for ages are around the room, like a mattress on the floor etc. He has done something in the past that has gradually been turning him mad, pictures from this moment flash up sometimes but the whole story is revealed later in the film. What he's done isn't entirely clear... The plot is his escape from this dark room he’s created for himself. About 3 quarters of the way through the intro the music gets brighter and the man opens a window in the room letting the light shine in. He opens the door and stands outside looking up at the sky; he starts to run and the intro ends, screen fades to black.
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