Collateral

Collateral was the first high budget blockbuster film to be filmed with digital cameras in a high definition format.
This is a trailer from the film, it is a good trailer as it gives us a small insight to the story and clips of the high octane scenes but does not give away too much of the story.
There are some scenes in the film where you can see digital cameras were used such as when you see the Los Angeles skyline.
There was a scene in the film when coyotes were running in the road and thanks to the digital cameras ability to film in low level light they were able to capture the moment and put it into the film.
The director used similar techniques in the television show Miami vice.
There was also some scenes of the film where the traditional 35mm film was used, an example of this is in the nightclub scene.


Above is the nightclub scene where traditional 35mm fil was used.
The film Collateral was co-produced by dreamworks and paramount pictures however the film was distributed by Universal. Also in 2006 Paramount pictures purchased dreamworks.
Originally Russel Crowe was set to play the role of Vincent however when the film was actually made Tom Cruise got the role.
Also Robert De Niro was set to play the role of Max but again once filming started they used Travis Bickle.
The film launched in August 2006 and grossed $24.7 million in its opening weekend.

Updated preliminary evaluation

The camera techniques that we used were shot/ reverse shot, the 180 degree rule and match on action. We needed to update this video as in the first one the match on action was cut out, so we had to re film the first part to get in the match on action, this also explains the lower resolution of the first part of the video.


Story line
We also tried to use a match on action however during editing we could not find a place to fit this camera technique into our film without interrupting the flow of the video.
In our sequence Darren, character A, walks through the door with a box filled with money. Grant, character B, is shown sitting at the table when Darren sits and places the money on the table. Grant then says a secret phrase, Darren confirms. Then Grant places the package on the table and they both switch packages. Darren smacks his face into the package and arises covered in residue from the product inside the box. Darren is dazed and confused as grant now has a horse head.

Script
Character B; Have you visited the alps this year.
Character A; Yes
Character B; (nods head)
Character A and B; push packages towards each other.
Character A; Places head in flour
Character B; Now has a horse head and leaves the room.

Alfred hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock way born on the 13th August 1899 and is famous for such films as Shadow of doubt and the Saboteur. He made his most famous film in 1960 called psycho which caused much controversy with film critics as they though they saw strong bloody violence however this was not true as it was edited so well you only ever saw a knife and blood.

Near the end of his life, Hitchcock had worked on the script for a projected spy thriller, The Short Night. This was never filmed as Hitchcock s health was deteriorating Hitchcock then died in his home on 29 April 1980. 


Hitchcock was also famously known for starring in most of his own films though usually just for a brief moment.
He used so much detail with his storyboard that when editing he didn't even need a viewfinder to edit his film as he already knew the precise location of each shot, although he was pictures using a viewfinder on occasions.