RESEARCH! First 2 minutes of films

District B13


Director:Pierre Morel
Release Date:7 July 2006 (UK)
Genre:Action | Crime | Sci-Fi
Plot:Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

I found this film by searching chase scene, after doing a chase sequence last year, I wanted to find how we could of improved on our film. Although something like this would be very hard for our group to do, It gives a good example of camera shots and durations for a fast paced scene which we could implement (quick fast shots)There is also a slight green tint, which enhances the sense of crime. Quick panning showing urgency. The music a continuous fast paced beat, adding to the effect, obviously classical music wouldn't suit the scene.

Se7en


Director: David Fincher
Release Date: 5 January 1996 (UK)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Plot: Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO

The opening 2 minutes in the film is just a montage of quick shots, with is the images of various things , what clearly this character is doing for the titles of the 'important' people to do with the film. although never seeing this film I would guess that this is going to be one of the main characters, the darkness represents to me criminal activity, along with what is my first impression of a scrap book, possibly a scrap book of his crimes which in turns could set up the rest of the film. The names of people are not just 'placed' on but flash and 'fidget' about.

The Shawshank Redemption


Director: Frank Darabont
Release Date: 17 February 1995 (UK)
Genre: Crime | Drama
Plot:Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

The establishing shot is of a house, we hear what the audience to think at first is nondiagetic music, or slow singing, It only comes apparent that it is diagetic music of car radio, using the same camera shot it moves back on to the car and then turns on the driver this shot remains untill a close up of the mans hand on the glove department, to where he takes a suspicious looking bag out this is when a slow 'mystery' nondiagetic music is added to the radio, giving the bag a tension, whats in the bag? when we see its a gun, the audience realise that this is going to be a crime film, the nondiagetic sound carries on to the next scene which shows that the man in court is to do with the man in the car in someway, maybe it is the man, or it is the victim. Again as apparent in the above crime films lighting at the start is dim and gloomy.

Godfather 1


Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Release date: 24 March 1972 (USA)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Plot: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Music with titles ( production company etc) fit with film- Italian. Voice heard before picture, darkness - crime. Appears to be talking to the camera it is only then apparent a few mins in that its a conversation between 2 people- slow zoom out to show this.

The Hurtlocker


Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Release Date: 28 August 2009 (UK)
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Plot: Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.