>Mystery,
>Curiosity, and
>Questioning the unknown,
we were also asked to define it, Mr Lucas showed us the dictionary definition:
1-A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation,
2-A person of puzzling or contradictory character
3-A saying, question, picture, etc., containing a hidden meaning
and then we had to come up with our own;
An enigma is something that is puzzling, ambiguous, or hard to work out. Specifically it's a mystery created byhaving an object, person or phrase, that's hidden fro the audience and will not be revealed until it become integeral to the story line. once this has been done the enigma no longer exists.
we then went on to discuss how you might go about creating enigma and came up ith this list;
>Editing,
>sound
>the uknown
> framing
> Hidden Meaning
> introducing foreign concepts to the audience,
>subverting/changing convention or narriative
> camera shots
> Mise-en-scene
Finally we put this into the context of our final task, and we looked at how eniga had been created in the first 2 minutes of 'The Bourne Identity'. It really gave me a clear idea about what i needed to do if i wanted to create an enigma when it came down to making our final task.
To add context with our film openings task we recently watched, broke down and analysed the openg 2 minutes 20 seconds of the film 'Inglorious Bastards' it used enigma well to introduce the Nazi characters as it gave them an air of mystery and curiosity as the audience don't know who they are they just hear the sound of their Motorbikes. I explore this whole opening/effect of enigma in a differnet blog post, as shown here: ENTER THE LINK FOR THE BLOG POST FROM 25-11-2013 LESSON HERE
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