EVALUATION..

The mash up consists of a few clips from the film Taken, put together in the style of Christopher Nolan. The way I did this was by watching trailers from his films to get an idea of how he edits his scenes and what I found was that he has very clear trade marks which he uses in most, if not all, of his films. After i picked these things out, i then went on to research other directors such as Mike Figgis and Tim Burton to see the differences between the directors narrative styles.

Once I researched into the Nolan's work, I then went on to picking an action film which I thought would be easiest to 'mash up' and edit. What I found was that the film Taken would work well as it is not too complex and has a simple, linear narrative therefore I would be able to edit the scenes to create a whole new sequence. I went on to watching different trailers of Taken to get an idea of how Pierre Morel directed the film and how different it would look if it were to be directed by Christopher Nolan.

The trade marks of Nolan which i found to be most useful were; blanked out scenes and silenced action shots covered by a running soundtrack which increased in intensity. As well as this, I wanted to use the scene from TAKEN where he is on he phone to the kidnapper and use his voice running in the background covered by action scenes throughout. The reason I did this was to create a different effect as his voice is calm whereas the scenes of violence would contrast with this.

The music that I used to cover the sequence is taken from Nolan's film Inception, the reason I used this was because he uses one artist (Hans Zimmer) to create all the music for his films. Therefore by using his music, it would create more of an atmosphere similar to Christopher Nolan's other films. I used two different soundtracks from Inceptions because the start of the sequence I wanted to start of slowly and gradually build up the pace therefore the second soundtrack I used was of a faster pace and created a better atmosphere and tension.

Nolan always puts his title sequence at the end of his films as a finale and it makes the film seem much more powerful. Therefore I put the scene of him saying 'I will kill you' just before I blacked out the screen to give a shock factor to make the audience think the sequence has ended. I then added 'TAKEN' and zoomed it into the screen as Nolan does, after this I put a scene of the main character making a witty comment just as Nolan does to end of the 'mash up'.