if you have a production company or a youtube channel you probably want to have an intro so this week I'm sharing the four things that go into making a really good intro. Hello, my name is Simon Cade and this is DSLR guide. so I think there are far too many intros out there which are pretty much just simple text on a background, my old intro is a perfect example of this and they just really don't use the full potential an intro can have so since then I've come up with the four main principles that I think go into having a good intro and they are style, concept, audio and effort so let's say that someone has a production company called "magic studios" or maybe its a youtube channel which is teaching how to do magic tricks well if you use this as your intro, which is very action-packed I think this falls into the trap that a lot of people seem to find which is that this intro has the style of a bad action movie instead of a magician's channel I think it'd be much better to have the camera following some dice in slow motion and then they come to rest on the table next to the title. So that way the style is relevant and actually tells us something more about the channel rather than giving people the wro ng impression about it being an action film and also you can use even the smallest details like the font and the color scheme and the music is quite a big one and all these factors will go towards the style and they can help you to give the right kind of vibe depending on what your video or channel is like so the concept that come up with for my other channel cade visuals is to have the logo being carved out of wood and to show some kind of carpenter kind of scratching away at the word until it makes the right shape and this is because if we look at my channel then it's got the occasional short film many documentaries and also music videos so i wanted to show that my stuff is handmade and to give the impression that it's kind of well-crafted and it takes a skilled craftsmen to make those videos and my new intro on this channel also has a meaning behind it that the important thing in filmmaking is not to focus on equipment but to move the equipment out of the way and focus on the ideas behind it which in this case is represented by a light bulb and also wanted to have lots of hands moving the gear out of the way because that shows that filmmaking is a collaborative process so I think it's really important to have a concept for your intro it could be as simple as you like but it really helps to add some purpose to everything now one thing you 'll notice in almost all good in intros is they use sound because audio is such a powerful film making tool and it's just sitting there waiting to be used so I really think that just having music is not enough in terms of your sound design so on the blog post of linked to my favorite intros from big production companies like lions gate and Marvel and I really think that you can see from those how important sound is because all of those have sound as a prominent feature so when thinking about your concept I think it's worth just choosing something that will actually make sound so for example in the magician one we have the sound of the dice bouncing off the table or in my dslr guide intro there's sound of the equipment being moved out of the way and of course the cade visuals one has all the sounds of smoothing the wood and sawing the word and all the other ones that come with carpentry now it makes sense that if you want to have a good intro you'll have to put an effort in, but there is a little bit more to it than that so on the low end of effort you've got just doing a very simple
Lighting intro
