Paramount Pictures

Paramount pictures Corporation is a film and television production/distribution studio, consistently ranked as one of the largest film studios. It has distributed various commercially successful film series, such as: Shrek, Transformers, Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Jackass, Beverly Hills Cop, Crocodile Dundee, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Paranormal Activity, G.I. Joe, and Friday the 13th.



I wanted to look at Paramount pictures because the company inspires me with their car-based action movie: The Italian Job. I looked at this film because it involves cars and action which relates to the story line I wanted to produce. So this film is a good way to compare to the Fast & Furious films, that way I can look at a number of techniques throughout both films.

Top five directors for action movies

1. Michael Bay

2. John McTiernan

3. Tony Scott

4. James Cameron

5. Steven Spielberg

The reason why I have looked at my favourite top five action directors is that I wanted to inspire myself into creating a film along the lines of their techniques. In my opinion these top five directors have created spectacular movies such as: Die Hard, Aliens, Man On Fire, Saving Private Ryan and Transformers. If I produce an action movie then I will look into these directors to see how they had produced their films and use the same techniques for mine.

                                                                      

Cinematic Techniques

      Breakdown of a couple filming techniques -

• Cinematography
• Mise-En-Scene
• Lighting Technique
• Editing

     Cinematography - 

• Close-up
• Medium shot
• Wide shot

     Camera angles are used to communicate with characters, meaning and emotions. 

     Mise-En-Scene - 

     

     Five elements to Mise-En-Scene

• Settings & props
• Costume, Hair & Make Up
• Facial Expressions & Body Language
• Lighting & Colour
• Positing Of Characters

      Lighting technique - 

      Lighting is the usage of light to re-create the feeling of the character and set the mood for the shot.