children of men

I am going to focus on two main points that happen during this clip one is the techniques that the director uses to show the audience that the film children of men. The film was made in 2006, directed by Alfonso Cuaron. This clip is about a bomb going off in a cafe in the middle of a congested London.

The scene begins with a blank screen, and some off-screen sound of newsreaders reading out the latest headlines, and then the camera starts rolling with a mid long shot of a cafe full of people in shock who are watching the latest news headlines on several televisions at once. The director first show the audience that this film is shown in the future when on the news a man had died at 18 years old and he was born in 2009. A man walks in and to show the audience he is the main character he just comes in buys his coffee and leaves whereas everybody else are stood motionless gazing at the TV. After the man collects his beverage he leaves the cafe and the camera follows him by using a handheld camera shot.

When the man leaves the cafe the camera has a pan view of London to show the viewer what damage the pollution has done to this iconic city. There is another incident that shows both the quality of the special effects and showing the film is set in the future. It shows the special effects and future by their being television screens and projections on all the buildings this is great special effects and this do not exist in real life. This also shows the viewer how important this news is to the world because it is everywhere. Also when the camera is following the unknown man, the date of “16^TH November 2027” appears in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. This shows that the film is set in the future because it was released in 2007 and the film is set in 2027.

The film shows that something has happened to the world because there are people walking round with facemasks on, there is smoke in the air and there are bin bags everywhere. The man then stops to put some sugar and into his coffee and camera is now shot looking at him from the front. There is also a bus that drives past with a moving sign on it (future). The director lures the viewer into a false sense of security and when he does this, a bomb goes off behind the man he makes this look realistic because it is shot with a handheld camera and when the bomb goes of the camera shakes and disorientates the viewer. The special effects whilst the bomb goes off are spectacular because as soon as it goes off, glass breaks everywhere including the screens on the buildings, there are many bodies thrown in numerous places, as if a real bomb has just gone off. Also all of the previously mentioned bin bags go everywhere. Then the camera watches the man’s reaction he leans against the wall and then the handheld camera does to see the damage, the camera is shaky because if this did happen the cameraman would have been shooken up by these events. As the camera stumbles toward the carnage there is smoke everywhere, broken glass everywhere and a women walks out of the cafe holding her maimed arm. The sound during the bomb going off freaks the audience out because it is realistic, there is a ringing noise as if it would be if a bomb goes off, and there would be a ringing in the spectator’s ears. There are also faint sounds in the background of the ringing noise; there are screams, cries and the sound of shattering glass. After the women walks out of the cafe he opening credits begin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA1bdb_wBF0

Film Review

Film Review

If you want an action packed thrilling film plus plenty if car chases, then you need to go and see the transporter. My highlight from the film is the part when Frank Martin played by Jason Stathan had to get out of his house from the secret hatch before the bad guys destroy his house with the rocket launcher

The title of this film is the transporter, it was directed by Corey Yuen (DOA: Dead or Alive), it was made in 2002 by Europa Corp. the genres of the film are Action/adventure, Crime and Thriller. The main actor in the film are Jason Stathan (lock, stock and two smoking barrels) I watched this film on the TV and I now have it on Blu-ray. This film is about a man (Statham) whose job is to deliver packages without asking any questions. But it all goes wrong and turns into an explosive film when he starts asking questions

Jason Statham plays Frank Martin who is a Special Forces veteran turned into a driver who transports illegal packages around the south of France. Transporting Martin has three rules; never change the deal, never exchange names, never look in the package. But when he's asked to take a package containing a Chinese woman beautiful Lai (Shu Qi) he breaks all of his rules, he opens the package and falls in love with the lady and he now has to fight off the bad guys in order to save her life and to stop the man who wants her dead

I was interested in the car chases and the stunt driving, this is mainly a man’s film because it is jam-packed with action, stunts and car chases. Another interesting character is the French policeman, he is an intriguing character because he works for the police as well as being friends with Frank Martin, and he knows Frank is a law breaker but he does not arrest him because Frank provides information on the whereabouts of some of the top criminals

I like this movie because it is an action-packed car chasing thrilling film that star one of my favourite actors and I think it is for a masculine gender because it has these genre and sub-genres these are the reasons why I am making the recommendation for this film. If your perfect combination is action + cars then the transporter is the must see film for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-fQqIOk48A

Casino Royale

I chose this action scene because I think it has everything; it has multiple camera shot, good sound, editing and good special effects

It has good cinematography by the way it has multiple camera shots and angles, it has bird’s eye view angle when it shows the fight between the two animals. It has many shots to keep the viewer guessing where bond is and to show the reader what the character in the film can’t see (mobile phone text). It has multiple cameras when the chase is on this is unique because usually the cameras are following the character but in this film the character are running towards the cameras. There is lots of camera zooming to emphasize what the character is looking at. There are both low angle and high angle camera shots used in this scene. At every point in this scene there are cameras switching to other cameras all of the time

The sound in this scene is good because there is background music in it all of the time this keeps the viewer (glue to the screen). The sound effects on all of the scenery are spot on e.g. when the truck crashes through the wall it is as if it would sound if it would happen. The noises when bond punches and kicks the bad guys sound so real it could have happened, the sounds of the guns and explosions in the film are also realistic

There is lots of editing in this scene because the director wants to keep the viewer watching so rather than staying with one camera shot he switches to about 20 different shots within a minute

The special effects in this scene are fantastic because when the explosion happens when bond shoots the tank they actually y done that and added in the bodies. Also all of the gun shots and when the water pipe is hit, that is real sounding also all of the stunts are played by a professional free runner and a bond stunt double. When they are on the crane they actually had a fight at that height

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