Christopher Nolan was the director of the ever loved films: Batman: The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento and more. Three films that make your eyes light up immediately. He has inspired millions with his mass of experience and the amazing job he did, directing them films at such a young age. However the film that inspired our team the most is Batman: The Dark Knight. We loved how he could portray each individual character with a single camera angle or just costumes that they wore.
First of all, we adopted his technique of camera angles and how he used them to help the audience see things in different lights, for example: ‘The Joker’ looks menacing normally, yet when Nolan gives him a hand held camera, ‘The Joker’ becomes more vicious and terrifying. This effect is what we wanted to take but for all characters. Comparing this to our film, the detective ‘Mason’ picks up the letter with a hand held camera. This is literally seconds, however, a lot is shown in such a short space. He panics and picks up the letter and you see the title of the film, this is very significant to the storyline as the plot revolves around ‘The List’ and the Mason’s determination and bravery is shown through his reaction. However, you see the other detective’s personality as well. He continuously chases, making him extremely brave, on the other hand, ruthless and careless. We took Nolan’s style and used it to show the protagonists personalities, giving the audience more information in literally 3 seconds of footage.
As well as this, Nolan has used fast paced action scenes with even quicker editing to symbolize multiple activities that are happening and to make the audience feel nervous and excited. We copied a similar style with our chase scene; we attempted to not use any transitions to create realism, like Nolan, and to make the chase much quicker than initially shot.
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