opening 2 minutes of Mechanic

In the clip we can see that main protagonist is strong, attractive and athletic, which shows stereotypes of main characters in action films. In action film like Mechanic, the audience wants muscly, brave and charismatic main hero. Camera uses the close up to the body of Jason Statham to impress the people around 25-34 to be example of real man. The actual story is about the killer, where people hiring him to kill bad people.

Camera shot in the beginning uses zooming to golden watches to show how rich is the killing target. Rich people in action films are always antagonists. Furthermore, rich person in this film hired foreign people to protect him from external enemies. The scene where the antagonists is swimming in his own swimming pool, the camera using close up and changing camera angle to far shot scene to show hall swimming pool. Another scene shows thug's shoulder using high angle shot, where his hired people securing him and watching him how he is swimming. Then, we see the close up of right arm of the crime lord, then we another close up of his face where crime lord starts screaming. Subsequently, we see many close ups and changing low and middle angles of the crime lord's face, because the main protagonist starting choking him to death and looks beautiful.

Research and Planning Targets

Storyboarding and scripting and evidence of time management need to be evidenced - and you need to provide some more analysis of opening two minutes from films - include some screen grade and complete a range of posts about the opening two minutes. 

Focus on: What we find out about characters, how we know the genre, how titles are used, how sound is used, the pace of editing and what we cut from and to, the way the camera is used.

Drama analysis

Drama is one of the film genres that tries to show emotional and relational development of realistic life situations and characters. The plot in drama films it is the most important thing, because not interesting story can annoy the viewer. In drama genre films we always see the couple, but something disturbs their romance like the antagonist. At the end. the protagonist always kissing her love and they are getting married. Sometimes the male protagonist is dying, where the film wants the viewer to be sad.

The target audience of drama films is young teenagers who is age is between 12 and above. But, drama films watches people who is age is more than 18, these people are adults, who does not like watching fantasy or action films. Because adults thinks situations in fantasy or action film is not realistic for their opinion.

Horror genre research

In horror films the main target is to scary viewer. Most of the movies in our time is PG-15, instead of using PG-18, because some scenes might be deleted, so most of film creators does not trying to show gore and blood, instead of this they are trying to show more haunted houses or places, which is always PG-15, which helps film creators to earn more money.

Furthermore, common or universal psychological vulnerabilities and fears exposed by the character create discomfort in the viewer. Because most of the horror film makers, trying to play with emotions, so the viewer wants the use of stereotypes from horror movies like naughty teenagers or the brave main protagonist. Another thing is the screamers, people wants to be impressed by this frightening moments.

Institution research

 The 20 the century fox were founded in 1935 by William Fox, Joseph M.Schenck and Darryl F.Zanuck. This company made popular films like Star Wars 1-6 Episodes, Home alone 1-2, X-men franchise etc.

 Lionsgate was founded in 1997 by Frank Giustra and Avi Federgreen with a 16 million investment. Lionsgate made famous films like Saw franchise, The Expandables 1-3 and Rambo franchise.

 he company was founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffale, New York in 1979, and was named by combining the first names of their parents Max and Miriam. They created films like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Asterix and Obelix.

 Paramount is an American film production studio based in Hollywood, California that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate studio since 1994. This company made popularity to films like Transformers 1-5, Shrek 1-4 and Most of them marvel films iron man, incredible hulk etc.

Universal Studios was founded in 1912 by Carl, Mark Dintenfass, Charles Bautomann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane. This company made films like Fast and Furious 1-8, Jurassic park 1-4, Psycho etc.

Action genre