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Hancock
Title- Hancock
Staring- Will Smith
Genre- Action
The film starts off with non-diegetic sound of a man making a speech which then non-diegetic music starts. The non-diegetic music is very upbeat which sets the tone of the film. Then it cut to the producers, which then the credits start to come on to a black screen which the white coloured credits were wiped on and off the screen. Then the title Hancock, comes up on screen still with the black background which the take last around 4 seconds, this is to emphasize the name of the film. Then the film cuts to a car chase involving a police car, which are the protagonist, and a car with a man hanging out of the window with a gun, who are the antagonist. The scene starts off with a mid shot of a car which is driving at speed trying to get away from the police. Then it cuts to an aerial shot of the chase which then a helicopter comes on to screen. The next cut is then a point of view shot from the police which they a car smash into another car. Then there is a parallel cut to extreme close up of a human leg which then there is a horizontal tilt revealing a human body, accompanying this is the diegetic sound of a person snoring. Which then it cuts to a bottle rolling on the floor, this indicates that the actor is drunk asleep. This film then cuts back and forth from the action of the chase to ‘Hancock’ who is sat on the bench drunk.
Overall in the opening two minutes, the most important factors which I personally think make this an action film are the props, costume and the non-diegetic music. This is because they reinforce what we are seeing on screen
Taken
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Starring- Liam Nelson
Genre- Action
The film starts of a non-diegetic sound which sounds like a chime of some kind which gives the feel sort of a spooky feel to it. Accompanied with the non-diegetic sound is piece of video footage of a young girl opening gifts, the effect of this is that it gives a hand held feel which makes us feel that we are looking at someone memory from their point of view, of who we don’t know. Within the video footage which we see of the girl we see a close up of the girls face of her being happy. As this is happening the non-diegetic music has turn in to a more of a flowing calm sound which give the audience a feel that were looking back through someone memory, which is reinforcing the power of the video footage. Then from the video footage it suddenly cuts to a medium close up of Liam Nelson sat on the sofa with a distorted face. Which then it cuts to a establishing shot where we can see the environment which Liam Nelson is in, which seems to be his living room. Then it cuts to a close up of a girl in a photo frame which indicates that the person in the picture has some significant to Liam Nelson. After that take of the photo it then cuts to an establishing shot of a busy main road with cars passing and there is diegetic sound of the hustle and basal of the city.
The rock
Title-The Rock
Starring- Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage
Genre- Action
The film starts off with the sound of non-diegetic music which is a sutal sound of a beat which you would normally associate with army orientated meaning. This sutal sound indicates that the film is building up towards a violence of some action. With this non-diegetic sound, there are a series of takes which it starts off with an established shot of men who are seemed to be dressed in uniform walking through a field with a dark sky. Then there is a mid-close up of a man sat down in a chair smoking a cigar with smoke covering his face. This also accompanied with the non-diegetic of a radio commentary which we associate with it being about a war as it still accompanied with the original non-diegetic sound. Then there are series of short takes with different camera angle such as close ups, medium close ups and establishing shots. All of the short takes are accompanied with the credits of the film who was involved in the making. As many of the cuts are dark in shade of colour, the credits are in white to make it stand out. Also to reinforce the nature of the film there are props in the cuts such as American flags, helicopters and id tags which we associate with war. All of which helps the audience understand the narrative if the film.
Overall the start of the film clearly outline what genre of the film it is and what it involves E.g. violence, something to do with the army. We can tell this by the non-diegetic music of the opening. Also the pros used are another indicator of what the film is about.
Therefore when considering the production of our film we will carefully consider the props which we will use and the non-diegetic which will be in our film as I felt these were the most important factor which stated this film as an action film.
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Prop list
The props which we will need to produce our film are as followed:
tri pod
hospital cloke
pale face paint
mobile phone
