A film made in 2004, directed by Matthew Vaughn. It quickly rose to critical acclaim for brilliant storyline and casting. These were the ideas i collected from watching the whole film. A few of these are in this clip above:
- At the start, a black front door shuts, with the name of the film in white edited on as though it is stuck on the door.
- There was a bird's eye view of three toilet cubicles, the two flanking occupied by girls using them, and the middle filled by two girls snorting cocaine
- In the club scene, Sienna Miller is shown dancing in a small crowd of people, and she is shown very claerly to be the attention of the camera, and of Craig (at time 0.30) he is shown coolly watching her while being talked at by the girl's boyfriend. WHen she comes over to talk to her boyfriend, the camera moves with her hand to Craig's with her number and she mouths 'Ring Me!' (at time 1.12) I would really like to create something similar in my piece
- In the slightly horrific assault scene in a cafe, one of the main characters is shown effectively beating up the camera, with the effect of being the beaten and getting beaten up up. It is very easy to do but the effect is very good, shown in the above clip (at time 1.40)
- A very small thing but it jumped out the screen at me, the camera is under a glass table, which holds glasses, drugs and a gun, and you look up at the two people talking like this:
There is a black screen, made by the camera being in the back of a van, the doors are opened, and it illuminates the van-you see the man with a dead body, and a policeman looking in. The camera is at the back of the van giving an onlooking, seperate effect- A slow motion silhoutte of a women walking down a corridor create powerful implications, as does the over the shoulder shot of the woman knocking on a hotel room door, the man opening it, the women steping inside and kissing him and the door slowly shutting
- At one point, there is an extreme close up on Daniel Craig's eyes, which has zoomed in in one setting, and when it zooms out, he is in another setting. Quite difficult to edit, but looks really clever. Something similar happens where you are just out of an over the shoulder shot, but you see Craig's reflection in a mirror cabinet, he looks haggard and is topless then the cabinet opens, and when it shuts he is looking normal in a suit as shown in the above clip (at time 2.52)
- The main killing scene is done very well, and more importantly cheaply. The killed is walking around the garden, the camera zoomed out and you watch the killer walk up to him with a gun pointed at his head. The camera then cuts to looking down the barrel of the gun, from an over the shoulder point of view, which then cuts to original spot, the gun is fired and the guy flies to one side
- When the thee main characters look into a freezer, the camera is placed in the freezer looking up at the three's reactions, an original idea done very well
- Lastly, the drug deal at the end is done how I want to do ours, there is a car with four men suited and booted, and the camera almost is aiming at them, and the other car is almost in front of the camera but at an angle, so that you feel on neither side, but included somehow
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