1. The Italian Job
For our opening scene we set the scene of a peaceful country road. A speeding car then breaks the
ambiance and we have a short intro whilst the car is driving. We also start the awkward dialogue
between the two protagonists in this intro. We wanted to base the cinematography and style of the
scene on the iconic opening of the original ‘Italian Job’ directed by Peter Collins. This is because the
intro both encapsulates the beauty of the Lamborghini Miura and the Alps. It also starts the
audience thinking: ‘who is the man driving?’, ‘why is he driving a nice car?’, ‘Where is he going?’ and
‘what is he going to do?’ This instantly draws the audience into the story, encapsulating their
attention. We would like to achieve this in our opening scene as our whole plot is very ambiguous
and up to the audience to decide ‘who these two people really are?’, ‘Why they killed a man?’ and
most importantly ‘Did they get caught?’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqtNThufkk
Drive
Another film that we would like to use as secondary research is ‘Drive’ directed by Nicolas Winding
Refn. The use of naturalistic awkward dialogue really makes the audience believe that they are
watching more of a documentary than a film. We would like to achieve this awkward chemistry
between the two protagonists in our film by, like in drive, using long takes. Drive is also a good film
to study as thereis, surprisingly, a lot of driving scenes. Through analytically watching these scene we
have
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADQyFcNmM7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRa3zyHUCtI
Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino is one of, if not the best director of all time. From ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to his latest film
‘Django Unchained’, Tarantino’s mixture of dark comedy and intuitive cinematography always
manages to impress me. Therefore it would only be appropriate to credit his as largely inspiring my
work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtwFugudZEbPulp fiction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_whQnqwEYk trunk shots