Sunday, 29 November 2015

Research into similar films

I have decided to research into similar films to help make sure we use the right genre conventions so our film will be as good as many others similar to ours are. The films I have decided to research are Close Encounters of the Third King, The Bourne Trilogy, and Conspiracy Theory. 

The film, Close Encounters of the Third King is very similar to our idea because it involves a missing person (in ours there are many missing people) which is due to an alien encounter. The film is overall about a man who became obsessed with finding aliens, so much that he ended up losing his job, and then he comes across someone who went missing after an alien encounter. The alien contact is similar to ours because our film idea is about conspiracy theories and each person making their own to figure out what happened and an aliens is one of the conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are hard to make realistic so researching into this and how other films portrayed similar subjects will really help us in the making of our film.






I looked at the reviews for Close Encounters of the Third King, it was mostly rated 4 or 5 stars which indicates it was produced well. The review describes the ending as “sensational” a long with complementing the director, Steven Spielberg with his use of special effects and high angle shot which showed a shadow and reflected his work on Jaws as well. This is the second version of the film as Spielberg did make a first one so in this one, he made some changes. The reviews described the first one as “an astonishing achievement” and the second was described as “simply a better film” (compared to the first version). The reviews also say that this film did “better at capturing the characters” and it has got rid of “dead ends and pointless scenes” which has helped tighten the whole film together to make it even better than the first.

The film The Bourne Trilogy is also similar to our film idea, it’s a trilogy of films about a man trying to discover who he is and find out his identity. He literally forgot everything that happened in his past which is similar to the main character in our film idea; she wakes up in the middle of nowhere, not knowing who she is or any memories of her past. In our film idea, the girl has flashbacks of her past revealing things that have happened to her. The Bourne Trilogy is more of a spy movie though, but it also has some concepts of our film idea which could influence how ours is used. It creates excitement for the audience in scenes which is exactly what our film will include.






The reviews for The Bourne Trilogy also mostly gave the film 4 or 5 stars. The reviews complement the actors acting and how well they played their roles; they also say that the car chases were “sensational” and “full of excitement”. It is also said that the director’s use of long takes was done so well that you didn't even notice them because they was all filled with “mind-blowing action” that took attention away from it all.

Conspiracy Theory (which is a thriller) is another film I looked into, this is about a man who posted a blog about conspiracy theories he had and to his surprise, one of them was actually true. He then gets a visit from the CIA because they’re mad that he is actually telling his readers the truth which the CIA doesn't want people to know, there is also his love interest in the film which they are both put in danger due to his blog. Similarly, our film has many conspiracy theories which any of them could be true, our film is actually revolved around conspiracy theories and solving the mystery of which (if any) is true which will answer the questions of what happened and why everyone went missing.




Conspiracy Theory was given mostly 3 star reviews, some being 4 stars as well. It is described as being an "uneasy mix of laughs and thrills; suspense and soap", it also says how well the script was written in reminding the audience key points of the film. However, there were some negative reviews too, the love story was called "unconvincing" and it was said that it could of been really good and shown a lot of humour but the "parts of the movie that are truly good" were buried underneath the "deadening layers of thriller cliches". 

These reviews of similar films are going to help is go in the direction we need to go in to make this film good. The reviews for conspiracy theory are a good example of what we don't want to do so this research is really going to help our ideas, for when we write our script and film, go well.
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