Chase scenes and more specfic research.

Hostage 2005

Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Release Date:11 March 2005 (UK)
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Plot:A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.

Ok on friday I saw this on film4, what caught my attention straight away was its creativity in the opening titles. It uses red and black graphics going around the location of the first scene, having names of actors and other 'important' people on buildings, cars etc. It is not clear at the beginning it has anything to do with the first scene, until it flows into the film effortlessly and then goes to show that the graphics were showing the scene. The scene also sets up the main character for the rest of the storyline. But I'm mainly talking about the titles as we could implement this into our own films.

Casino Royale


Ok this is completely impossible for us to do, but this is just an example of how the camera shots and editing is done. They had lots of cameras recording the same action at the same time, we will not have that so will have to like in our prelim do shots over and over again from different angles. The shot durations are quick and change rapidly thus showing urgency, continuity and pace, all what we can develop into our own film.

Tony Jaa Ong-Bak


Basically this chase scene is so bad that its funny. The only thing to note is that when one of the characters does a spectacular move it shows it from different angles, although this isn't continuity, it works well with the sound.

Point Break


Ok this has very good elements what we could implement, again quick camera shots, lots of variety going between each character but also having both in the scene. We could realistically do shots like these.

If we want to have free running in our film. there are several groups in oxford who we could email (through youtube) and ask if they would help us out.