This is a clip from WANTED (Timur Bekmambetov 2008), in the film the character Wesly finds out that he is the son of one of the best assasins in the world. As his whole life he has been a push over and always fighting aginst panick attacks, he chooses not to belive that he has the same abilities then his father. This film and clip was very interesting to us as our film extract is based on the same sort of idea of the main character after so long of ignoring his abilities finally finding or using them. Unlike the other superhero based stories out there this one is very unique and not to the point of stereotypical idea of special or magical powers, as weslie's is a talent not a superpower. It links back well to our extract as our main charcter has a very unique and special talent that has been brought up through not genetics or super spiders but physcilogical powers. The idea that wesly can not 'curve the bullet' until;l his love intrest in target, his phycilogical mind tells him not to dshoot her but shoot round her.
This clip from Jumper (Doug Liman 2008) is prehaps the aftermath of him discovering his gift and then learning how to use it. In our extract we only see her dicovering her gift not testing it out and more importantly not deciding weather or not to use it for good. In this clip we see the jumper using his jumping skills to rob a bank for self gain, even later in the film he turns on the TV and on it is the news repoting a mass flood in a 3rd world country. the line reads " it would take a miricle to reach the stranded starving people" and the jumper ignores this and changes the channel. The main thing that jumped out to us in this clip was the fact that our charcter is undecided on how to use her gift. We plan to add a clip of a child alone in cambridge and her thoughts to be "mummy where are you?" and possiblu the main character Mel could use her gift to find the motehr and bring them together, but she passes through and ignores it. this will be our prelouge suggesting how she might use her powers.
Another clip from WANTED, this one shows the first time wesly tests his talents. Another thing we liked was the idea of him finding out that there our others like him, with his talents and gift. this gave us the idea for extract ending were the main character get's an email from an UNKNOWN source saying "YOU CAN HEAR THE VOICES CAN'T YOU? " this would opening up a box of possibilities for the main character's story to go.
The main extract has been used in other films were the main character discovers his or her powers and attempts to use them. In this clip from Spiderman we find Peter Parker finding he has a special power, many camera angles, transitions and shots are used in this to emphasis his point of view and how the audience feels if they were in his position. the clip from 1.04minuets shows this well through the use of slow motion and CGI.
One shot that inspired us to use in our extract was the extreme close up on the protaganists eyes showing us 1) how he is feeling at that present time, and 2) that an POV shot would commence in the next clip. this is at 1.02 minuets.
One of things we are discussing for our film extract is how we are going to portray the protagonist as a mind reader. We could use the general voice over trick, a monologue from the main character or typing on the screen. This is a clip that inspired us;
Here is another clip that we could create ideas from
