Film Planning- Genre Research- Fast and Furious

The first film we chose is Fast and Furious 1. Fast and Furious 1 is an action film. At the beginning first two minutes of the movie, there was not much that was told about the story. There were many different film making techniques that they used in the opening shots, such as close ups of the cars and insert shots of the setting. There were also over the shoulder shots in the beginning. When it comes to the editing part of the movie, there were many short takes through the opening. You can also tell how the shots were taken, for example the car scenes move smoothly when they are racing, you can tell that a dolly or tract is being used. There is also mis-en-scene when it comes to the cars that the drivers owned and were driving and also what the construction workers were wearing. The films budget for the movie was 38 million and the film made 207.3 million. The film was also nominated for peoples choice award for favorite movie, MTV movie award for best male performance and MTV movie award for best action sequence. The movie won ASCAP film and television music award, BMI film and Tv awards, and Hollywood film awards.