Actors:
Liam Nelson - This actor has been in the many action films, the Taken series is one of the films he is well known for. He has been around for a while so has been in many films ranging from comedy to action. He is well known to the young generation as of Taken and Ted 2. He has a 2 children, a daughter and a son, and unfortunately his spouse in 2009, and yet he still manages to have a brilliant acting career. This one of the reasons that Liam Nelson is a influential figure. He has also been in the rom-com which gives him a range acting techniques and a range of experience for the films he stars in. We feel that Liam Nelson is influential to our genre as he has been in a lot of intense scenes in the film he has done. As we want a intense film we have him to look at on how to get the actors to react.
This is taken from taken 2, one of the most well known films he has been in. This photo shows that he is not using a gun which is good for us, as we are unable to use guns. His facials also gives us influence on how to get the actors to do a smiler face.
Tom Cruise - This actor again has been part of many action films. He is one of the most famous and well-known actors to this day. He has been married 3 times and has 3 children ranging these marriages. At the age of 53 he has been in over 50 films. One of his most famous franchise was the mission impossible. This is one of the many action films that he has been in. He like Liam Nelson are mostly known for there action films rather than the other genres that they have stared in. Tom cruise usually plays the laid back but intelligent character but also the hero in the film. In the romantic films that he has played in he is the leading man in them. We type cast Tom Cruise with action films. We think that he is influential as he does a lot of his own stunts.
This is from the film knight and day, this film shows off his fighting techniques and his techniques with gun. Although we are only focused with the his fighting techniques, and his usual cool statue when put in to the fight scene. We want the protagonist to look like this when
they are put in the fight scene.
Christopher Walken - He is a well known actor who can play many characters and can do them well. He has been in genres ranging from romance, to comedy, to thriller/horror. Some of the films he has been part off are Pulp fiction, Hairspray, the deer hunter and seven psychopaths. these are only some of the films that Walken has been in. Christopher Walken is influential to us as he can show a wide range of styles of horror (psychological horror). We see how he re-acts to the surprising things that has happened through films.
Directors:
Tony Scott - Tony Scott is a well known British director who is the director of top gun. Unfortunately Scott died in 2012 after directing and producing many films and TV series. Scott would usually cast Denzel Washington and Christopher Walker. He also like to use dogs in some of his films such as such as, enemy of the state, man on fire. Tony Scott is the younger brother of Ridley Scott who is also a well known director. His directors trademark is a camera pan across a large towers or sites. He likes to use sunlight flashing at the characters to make the picture more effective. He is influential to me as he has a great technique of making action films. We like the use of camera shots he used through
the fight scenes through out his films.
Paul Greengrass - he is a director and a writer, and is well known for the Bourne Ultimatum, captain Phillips, the Bourne supremacy, and united 93. These are all action films. Greengrass is a British director and he started his love with the camera in secondary school with a simple camera where he made short animation films of horror with old dolls, dummies and things around the house. He likes to use a held hand camera as he feels that it creates a sense of realism. He also likes to tell the stories from real life experiences or stories. Again we like the shots through the fight scenes, and the plots of 
James Cameron - Cameron has won three Oscars for the work he has done, he has also had 11 academy awards from just 'Titanic'. He is mostly known from directing Avatar, Aliens, Titanic, and terminator 2. He has his own production company ' Lightstorm Entertainment' in 1990. He is one of the most sought after directors in Hollywood. Cameron has a lot of trademarks in his films some of those are;
- he likes to have strong female characters,
- likes close ups of feet or wheels usually when crushing things,
- bringing the camera close in when there are fight scenes to give a claustrophobic effect,
- he likes using slow motion in intense film or to intensify scenes,
- he likes to include humanities ignorance and over-use and over-reliance of technology.
Cameron has introduced a new generation of stereo imaging camera called the 'fusion camera'.
He is mostly known for the action adventure fantasy films. I like how he uses worlds that are't with human existence.
Alfred Hitchcock - Hitchcock was known for making psychological thrillers/horror films. He is mostly known for these four films; psycho, vertigo, rear window, north by Northwest, although he has directed many more films. He has been nominated for around 32 awards and has won 25 awards. He was English but had moved to America where he died in 1980. he had many trade marks some being that; he liked to have close ups of women's hairstyles; he liked the theme of mistaken identity or the wrong man theme or even assumed identity in his movies; when he wanted to create suspense in his films he would alternate between different shots to extend cinematic time,and when doing car chase scenes he would alternate between shots from the drivers point of view and close up shots of those inside the car from different directions ( this would keep the viewers in the car so if any danger was encountered it would be more richly felt); he would create shadows on walls to create tension and suspense; he liked to shot films in a study so he could have full control of lighting and other effectors that could effect the shoot if they were out on location. I like the idea of psychological thrillers as it makes us think about what it is happening on screen and it will leave us thinking about it for a while once the film has finished. I find him influential as he can mess with people's mind which is part of what we want to do.
Companies;
Companies don't really specialise in doing genres, the genres usually define with the directors, so if the company enjoy the work of a director they may want to publish there work...
Moving Picture Company: it is one of my influential figures as the company is British, and that they have helped publish a lot of well known films, although not all of them are action or thriller, the genres that they do range dramatically. This company has a lot of sections and they all range differently, They also do advertising.This company specialises in special effects. Some of the films they have done special effects on are; The Hunger Games, Fast and furious, The Amazing Spider-man, Harry Potter.
They also do production company which have produced Pan, Harry Potter, Fantastic Four, Pirates of the Caribbean. These are only some of the well known films that they have produced.
They have advertised many things including plane companies, alcohol, shops (John Lewis), cars and games and many more companies.
Paramount pictures - This film company has helped distribute many famous films.The films that they are produced are Hollywood film, they are very well known from all around the world. They have done a lot of action films and thriller films, such as, Paranormal activity and mission impossible, pain and gain, and top gun.
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