Research of Action Directors and Their Filming Styles

In looking at research before our film I have looked at some of the top credited action directors, and the kind of films they film and how they film them.

Quentin Tarantino
Quentin tarantino is known for directing only a few films but almost all of those films being big successes, such as Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and more recently Django Unchained, throughout these films he is known for his over the top action style scenes, usually having massive amount of blood and violence, he is known that he likes to shock the audience with gruesome and sudden deaths of major characters.

Unlike other directors he is not afraid to show blood spurts and generally uses real life things to show effects rather than CGI like other directors. Almost all of his films are controversial due to having excessive violence or racist themes, such as in Django and Inglorious Bastards.

James Cameron 
James Cameron is known for being ambitious rather than unique and like to try things other directors might be afraid of trying, he is also known as a director that, unlike Tarantino, like to use special effects whenever possible, films such as Avatar show this as he likes to show that he could make almost an entire film with green screen and special effects, because of this many of his films take place in the future and have a sci-fi theme to them, he originally became a director due to his sprawling imagination when thinking of movie ideas, and this still shows today.

Along with using many different special effects techniques he was also one of the first major directors using 3D filming in his film, while before it was very rarely used, James Cameron brought 3D back into the filming industry, he started of the 3D craze with Avatar, one the first films that could use 3D effectively and amaze audiences, now a days all most all films use 3D.

Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is most famously known for the Lord Of The Rings series, and more recently the Hobbit movies, his style of action movies generally focus on a strong narrative rather than lots of action scenes, when filming action scenes he, like James Cameron, likes to blend a use of CGI while also using live action, he generally directs in the fantasy genre, but while they are fantasy they are also action.

His Lord Of The Rings movies are critically acclaimed, and as a directer he likes to tell a in depth storyline rather than overflow the movie with action scenes that don't bring anything to the movie, therefore you can learn from him that sometimes the story behind the action is more important than the action itself, if you use this in an introduction it means rather than actually showing action you just give the audience an idea of the genre to set up the action after the introduction.

-Quinn Nolan