Research for main Task

For main task we are wanting to do an action/ thriller film. The research I have done below is starting of films which are action/ thriller types of films. The reason I am researching these are because we may be able to get some ideas based on the some of this research. The films I have researched are:

Valkyrie

Plot- German officer trying to assassinate Hitler and use operation Valkyrie to take control of country. They are playing a high risk game is trying to blow up the leader and knowing if caught he would die. They go on a Bombing raid on Berlin. The plan is to kill Hitler and then dismatle the Nazi regime.

What makes Valkyrie so interesting to watch is how they present the start. We (the audience) are hering this man saying what he is writing in this letter. While we listen to what he is writing we also get an overiew in what sort of enviornment he is under. We then watch this candle burn while he is writing for 6 seconds and then watch him write for a minute. We hear this contrant background hum which is adding to the tension to the start of the movie. He then tells us what this whole movie is all about when he says “but the arch enmery of Germany change must be made” That quote sets up the whole film as we now know what he is fighting for. We can use elements of this with the thought process being read out to the audience and we may add some flash back while we hear some of the thoughts for our main task.



Transformer 2

Plot: is to get Sam Witwicky as a prisoner as he finds out about the ancient origins of the transformers.

Even though this is a sci-fi action film we can take some inspiration in how they are presented at the start where they show all these different places. Also the way they build the tension with the sounds they produce and how they build the film up. It grabs the audience attention straight away which makes this such a successful film. The action is so great that no dialog was necessary to get the audience wanting to see the movie. This is the sort of thing that we would like to do for our film without the sci-fi affects.



Death Note

Plot: Yagami Light is a smart student with a great future ahead of him but he is very bored at what he does. One day he finds a “Death Note” which gives him the power to kill people however he likes.

This is a different sort of film. It is an action film but it the action comes later in the film so what we see is the build up to it. It shows how this book got into his hands and what drove him to do what he did. It is a tense build up with this church hum in the background sensing something bad is going to happen but the longer we wait the more tense it gets for us the audience not knowing what is going to happen. If we dont do a chase scene we could try and build something mysterious and made room for a Potential chase later on in the film instead of doing a chase scene.




James Bond Casino Royale

Plot: Bond has to try and stop a guy called Le Chiffre who is a banker to the terrorist world win a casino match. He has to win back his money to keep his money safe and keep in contact with the terrorist.

I think this is the sort of thing that we could do on a smaller budget but without the blowing up affects and the expensive Equipment. This film has all the aspects of the genre we want to do but we will have to do it in a smaller price range as we do not have the resources or the finance. This fits in with the sort of film we were planning on doing.



Plot: “Ken is a high school student who dreams of driving Corvettes. His passion leads him to a perfect job as a Corvette mechanic, but he is soon embroiled in his boss's dirty dealings.” One of the summaries summed this film up as.

I think we can use elements of this car chase into our film. Instead of doing a car chase we would have an bike chase with an gang wanting something and a chase starts happening because the gang don’t get what they came for. We will have to try some of these out ourselves before making a final decision on what we are doing for our final product.