Final Evaluation - Sam Rushton

Final Evaluation - Sam Rushton

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For our media coursework, we had two options, design a magazine or film an opening sequence to a film. We choose to film. Our film had to be the start of a film and last no more than 2 minutes. I worked in  a group with Liam Bentley and Sara Saghir. Our idea was a fast paced, action, thriller, that involved gangsters and drugs. I thought of the main idea after many unsuccessful ideas fell down.Me and Liam basically did everything, we did a huge amount of research before we even took hold of camera (as seen on the blog), we looked at many films as well as researching the film industries that we wanted to produce the film. Sara has hardly been in lessons, and therefore done little on the blog, she also did not come to any of the filming days or help editing. I was the director of the film, this meant that I had a lot of responsibility as it was my duty to organize actors and shots, and overall produce the film and keep it looking the best it can be. We worked hard in the filming and editing stages to keep the film looking as smooth and continues and possible. Liam was a great member to have working with me, he came up with a lot of good ideas and ordered props online. He gave a lot of effort in helping find filming locations and gave up a lot of time with me to keep our final product looking as good as it does.

The genre that we had to adopt was the thriller genre, we then diverged into sub-genres, the sub genre we choose was crime/gangster. We have used typical conventions like high action fast paced editing (jump shots etc.) Music to create atmosphere, and the typical ‘bad guy’ with a balaclava. However not everything is what you would expect to find, we have experimented with different camera angles and used a flash back into the past from the start of the film. It was important to do some things differently to keep the film from being exactly the same as other films in the same genre and therefore keep the genre fresher, we also wanted to make it differently so it appealed and attracted to people who found it different and interesting. The audience seemed to lover our film and found the new camera angles different and interesting, they said that it kept it exciting and the editing kept it feeling fast and again added to the appeal and excitement.  Our film clearly belongs to the thriller crime0gangster genre but does many things to set it apart from different films of that genre.

The group we have represented is criminals/gangsters. The overall image we paint of them is fairly stereotypical at times E.g. the balaclava. We present them as what they are really, dangerous criminals motivated by money and power.We had ‘the torturer’ in all black and a hockey mask. His showed him as a strong, scary, mysterious individual. The two men who attack the car are also masked adding the mystery who these men are, they have no speech in the opening sequence. The are both very violent, for example the torturer attacks the man with a drill and the balaclava man attacks him with a baseball bat. We also have scary music when the man is about to be tortured adding to the fear factor involved with these men.At parts the criminals do fit with the dominant stereotype portrayed by the media, that there all involved with drugs, kidnapping and other criminal activities, but I feel we take this to another level by showing them physically torturing someone.

We want our film to be made by and distributed by a British film company. We have decided on Film4. We want the film to be a gritty British drama and feel Film4 would be the best to create this, as they have created gritty films like trainspotting and This is England. I believe our film would appeal to fans of coarse the Thriller genre and crime/gangster genre but also fans of action and horror. I doubt that our film would have the same effects on American audiences hence why we want Film4 to distribute it. As I said before Film4 has always been about hard hitting, emotional gritty films and that is why I believe that is why they would be perfect for our film.

Our film will most likely appeal to males aged 16-25, of a western ethnicity (probably only European). The social economic group it will appeal to isIt will appeal to fans of thrillers as well as fans of crime and gangster films. It will also appeal to fans of horror and action films.I believe thrillers have a huge amount of fans, but gangster thrillers have a smaller loyal niche market. Who will pay to go and see the latest film in that genre.From our feedback we found out that everybody loved it and they said they would go and see the film, this shows that even though our film is in a sub-genre it appeals to many people who aren’t even fans of this genre.

Audiences of  this genre expect it to be hard hitting and exciting, which we delivered right from the start through fast paced action. The Equilibrium is disrupted as this man is taken by masked men. We create many equilibriums from the start: Who is the person being tortured, who are the kidnappers, why are they doing this. Chronological are film changes, the start of the sequence is not like actual start, after the torture scene it goes back and says ‘5 hours earlier..’. We use many enigmas, like who are the people trying to capture the ‘victim’ who is the ‘victim’ and what has he done to the gang?. We build tension by sinister music and the use of cuts to black. We have used crime ideologies, like ripping off gangsters is not a good idea and they will come back for you.

We learnt about many websites that can offer excellent information in helping research and create movies. We found lots of interesting and useful videos on YouTube. We could embed videos onto our blog that we found.We also learnt about video editing software (iMovieHD), which allowed us to cut, trim and paste clips into were we wanted them, we could also put in titles and even use effects e.g. The CCTV effect we used. We would have preferred to use higher quality HD camera’s to make our products look slicker and more professional but this out of our control.

I think our final product came out very well and just how we wanted it, I believe its key strengths to be its high pace and levels of action, a weakness I feel is the un-explanation of who the characters are, but this was meant to be an enigma to draw the audience in and then to be revealed later into the film.

Sam Rushton

Liam Bentley-Evaluation

For our project, we had to make a 2 minute opening sequence for thriller. Our idea was thought of by Sam. The main story line of our project was that someone was kidnapped, and on the first scene we would show the torturer and him getting tortured, then going to a flash back 5 hours before, showing how he got caught. We started to do a lot research and put all of it onto our blog. Looking up thrillers on YouTube getting many ideas, finding out about film industries etc. we also bought some props of eBay and other websites and took pictures in which we posted on the blog. The people I worked with are Sam Rushton and Sara Saghir. It was Mainly Me and Sam who contributed mostly to the project, as we did most of the Posts on the blog, but mainly, she didn’t come to any filming days, and did not help with any editing. But overall I still think we did very well with the project with just me and Sam mainly contributing to the whole project. Our main roles where all just split out equally, therefore we all help out with each role, e.g. editing, filming, research. Sam worked very well, and did a lot of work to help create this project. I don’t think I could have done this with out him, as he did come up with the idea, and he helped a lot.

The main genre of our sequence had to be a thriller, so there are many conventions which show this throughout the film. We tried to push this through the first part of the sequence. The location was set in an old, garage, with lots of tools and junk everywhere, which created a scary, unknown place.  Some of the mise en scene we used, like the mask we bought online, made it look scary and push the genre ‘thriller’. When the camera does a POV shot, when moving across a table picking his weapon, there are lots of knifes and metal bars, which add to the genre thriller. The sound at the beginning, is every deep tones, and the editing is made a lot slower, with titles coming in between as he comes up to the camera which makes the viewer very scared, and tense, up until the scream, which wants to make the viewer jump, and scared. I know this part of the sequence was the best as we did a questionnaire and found out that most people liked this bit, and found it scary. This made us very happy, as this is the response we wanted and this also goes towards the conventions of the genre ‘thriller’.  Through out the rest of the sequence, we find that it is more of an action thriller. We can see this through mainly the sound and editing conventions. The sound we use is very fast and action packed but still makes the viewer tenser, because as the music kicks in, we see the editing get a lot faster, with fast pace cuts and a lot of different shots. This adds to the action/thriller genre we tried to create. When the main character is getting into the car we have lots of close ups, one mainly of his hand when putting it into the car he is shaking, and we have another close up/medium shot of him, really showing his facial expressions, which is shown as scared, which also makes the viewer scared. After this we get some more conventions, as we see some more props which would add to the genre thriller, as we see balaclavas, baseball bats, and for the action side of the genre we see cars. And more sound which is fast pace and fits well in the sequence.

Our media product represents only two groups and that is mainly, the victim, and the criminals. We see the victim in the first shot as he is tied up, and is wearing a dirty tank top, with ripped pants. The victim throughout the film is dressed in grey, which is a lighter colour, so we can see that he is the protagonist and the victim. We see that he is the only person who speaks through the sequence apart from the person he is on the phone to, who is unknown.  He is also in every scene of the sequence, but in the main part, he is running away, so he is clearly shown here that he is the victim. Soon after we see that he gets caught, now really clearing up that he is the victim as he has been put in the back of a car, going to an unknown destination.

The criminals are shown very clearly, mainly by there costumes or Mise en scene. At the very beginning, the criminal is wearing all black, with just a mask on, and I know from all horror or thriller movies that who ever is wearing a mask is usually the bad guy. Also we see him use a weapon, to torture the victim which also suggests that he is the criminal. And finally, at the end of this scene, we have a low angle on him making him look big, so he is powerful, and clearly see his mask. The main part of the sequence we see two people wearing balaclavas, which suggest they are the criminals, as they are also dressed in black/grey colour. Also when we see the people break into the car, in the CCTV camera effect, we see that he is a criminal there, as they only break into cars. The stereotype here is that the bad guys are mainly men, as are the protagonists. But we tried to make it different by having the victim a man as well, because it has become more popular to have women as the victims.

I think that it would be distributed by Hollywood, Universal. The main reasons for this are that we wanted it to be a kind of gangster/thriller, and we looked at films like ‘Scarface’ which is distributed by universal. Also, unlike British films, we don’t get ‘GRASS’ as it just focus’s on the action and the horror effect. So we get more of an action packed film, not showing the emotions and feelings really deep, making the viewer sad about the film, like most British films do.  Also many British films are of the genre, ‘social realism’ and our film is a horror/thriller/action. Having many different genres link to Hollywood films like Spiderman, this has many genres.

I think the main target audience for our product would be between the ages 15-26. This is mainly because these are the people that usually go the cinema, and I would like as many people to watch it. Also the action/thriller genre is perfect for the aged 15-26 because it’s what they have been brought up to watch by Hollywood films, with lots of action and horror, which also are the main genres at this time, in the cinema.

I think that it was the beginning that really attracted the audience because there are a lot of enigmas and it is the creepiest part of the sequence. This is shown by the mise en scene and sound as we have a scary location, in an unknown, isolated place, with lots of stuff in the garage like metal bars weapons. The equilibrium and the disruption are all in different places as we start at the disruption, and then jump back to the equilibrium. So it is a bit different, but more people would like that as it’s not just a typical film, which would attract the audience. The sound makes it a lot scary, as we have deep tones, or strings in the background, and gets higher as he walks towards the camera, this could also attract the audience. There are a lot of enigmas like, why is he there, who is the person in the mask, what has he done etc. which would want the viewer to carry on watching to find out more, which could attract the audience. We tried to build as much tension as possible in the opening scene to really attract the audience so they would want to carry on watching.

I have learnt a lot during the construction of the product. But also I new quite a lot already. The blogging of the product I learnt quite a lot, like how to embed a YouTube video onto the blog. I also learnt that you can get different kind of fonts from the internet, as we used a font called, ‘project y’. The main part I learnt was how to edit, using iMovie. I liked the editing so I got used to it right away which was good.

Comparing the prelim to the final product, I can see that we have become more advanced, as we did a lot more smooth editing, and invisible editing. We also learnt to use a lot more camera angles and different shots to make it a lot more interesting. And finally we also wanted to make sure nothing was in the shot apart from what was nessasery, because in our prelim, we had a camera bag in one shot, and it disappeared in the next, making it look unreal, so I think we have learnt a lot during the final piece.

In conclusion, I think we have done really well with the overall project. Some of the weaknesses we’ve had are that one of the members in our group didn’t really contribute to the work. And we could have done more shots. But mainly the strengths are that we got only good reviews, as we did put it on YouTube having lots of views and everybody liking it, saying it was really good and they liked the first scene the best. So overall I think we have pulled of a great opening sequence to a thriller.

Audience Feedback - Graphs (10 People Asked)

Questionnaire written by Sara Saghir
Graphs done by Sam Rushton and Liam Bentley

Filming - Final Product

Overall we are very pleased with how our film has turned out, we have learnt a lot of new techniques, such as jump cuts which we employed throughout our film. We like the fast pace of the film, and this is something we set out to do, we wanted the viewer to always be on the edge of their seat and we feel we have accomplished this well. The only thing we regret about our film is that we could not incorporate a scene with a van and many extras, this was simply down to budget and organization factors. 


Filmed by Liam Bentley and Sam Rushton 
Starring Elliott Kinsella-Calverley

Pictures

Pictures of us filming the 'capture' scene.

Location of the outside scenes

Screen shot of us editing the film.

Posted Sam Rushton and Liam Bentley

Risk Assesment

Props Bought online

Script/Dialogue

 In our film, there will not be a lot of dialogue, as we want it to have more enigmas, so that the audience are tested and are actually thinking about the film.


The dialogue will take place when he has the phone call.


'they know you're trying to leave, Hurry!' 

*phone goes down* (sound beeping)


this creates some enigmas, like who is the person calling, how does he know what is happening.


Posted By Liam Bentley

Order of Opening Titles

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Buena Vista, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors).

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

Posted By Liam Bentley

Story Board

Story Board by Sam Rushton

Identify Roles

We have decided the parts in the film we are going to do.


Sam Rushton - Acting, Filming, Editor and Director.
Liam Bentley - Extra, Filming, Editor and Producer.
Sara Saghir - Extra, Filming, Editor.

Prop List, Location, Costume Plans, Casting Shots, Filming Schedule times

Props

Accessories 

- Hockey mask > bought online

- Balaclavas > bought online

- weapons e.g baseball bats, angle grinder, shanks, Cricket bats, Clubs, Sledge hammer etc 

- Fake Blood ( if needed )

Clothing

-  Plain white t-shirt

-  Black jackets ( Hoods )

-  Plain Jeans

-  Scarfs

-  Bandanas 

-  Other masks

Other

- Van ( if possible )

-  Mo-ped 

- Car

Location

When Filming in House - 59 Blackburn Road Rishton

When Filming Outside -  Station Close Rishton

Created Costume Plans

Main Character

 Man who gets kidnapped

 Joe Rea ( One of our Friends )

 Wearing Casual clothes.

Torturer 

Bad Guy

Sam Rushton 

Wearing Hockey Mask, Plain white t-shirt (Dirty), Jeans ( possibly Ripped )  

Angle Grinder


Balaclava man
Sam Rushton
Wearing Balaclava , all black clothes, Black Gloves

Extras

All will be bad guys

Friends acting

wearing hoodies, balaclavas, scarfs, bandanas etc.

have weapons 

Filming Schedules 

Weekends

Posted By Liam Bentley

Film Synopsis

Our film is a crime/gangster thriller, that we have named The KR3W. The film will be about a gang and someone who is trying to rip them off/trying to escape from them. The film opens with a torture scene of the man who tries to run away. Here we see a sole man in a hockey mask torturing him. He then picks up an angle grinder and closes in on him with it. The screen goes black and you hear the man scream, the caption reads 5 hours earlier.. And we are taking to the tortured man in a bedroom, he is panicking and packing his bag quickly, then his phone rings and he answers it where somebody tells him they know he's trying to rip them off/escape and that he should hurry. The camera then switches to a group of masked figures that we presume are the people after the man. The camera keeps switching between him and the people coming to get him. He runs down the stairs and runs outside, here he looks around but nobody is there and we presume they haven't got there yet. He gets into his car, and tries to start the engine, but then the camera switches to the dashboard and we see a man in a balaclava in the backseat. The man puts his arms around the mans face. Then the camera goes onto the street and we see a speeding van, the van pulls up outside the house and lots of masked figures jump out carrying sledgehammers etc. The identity of the gang and the person kidnapped remain a mystery as that will be found out later on in the film as we are only doing the opening sequence. We are also unaware really what this man has done to warrent the gang coming after him.

By Sam Rushton

Planning - equipment/technologies

As all the research has been carried out we have now moved onto planning. The first part is looking at the different equipment/technologies we can use. One of these is the use of fake blood. We want this to look as realistic as possible.I have researched quite a few methods of making fake blood the link below is a website which gives instructions on how to do so.


http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Blood#Movie_blood_.28inedible.29


Posted by Sara Saghir


During filming we will be using a cannon video camera that saves films to a tape and can be easily uploaded to the computer. We will also be using tri-pods to make sure our shots our still and smooth. It can also be used as a platform for tracking shots. When we have finished our film it will be uploaded to an Apple computer and we will use iMovie to edit the movie and include titles. The website that we are getting our fonts from is dafont.com. We have picked a font called Project Y that we intend to use in the opening sequences.


By Sam Rushton

Opening titles

The opening title for hostage, its all been edited, in the colours red, black, grey and white. The fonts are always in big capital white letters which seem to suggest the film will be a strong, powerful thriller. The font in the different shots are always integrated into buildings/objects. For example the name Ben Foster goes up a telephone poll. The shots are all shot in low key lighting which suggest that the film will be farely dark and grungy. The strong red colours sugguest that there might be blood in the film. Also in the opening sequence there are a lot of shadows making the film seem eeiry and creepy.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/02/28/hostage/

The next title sequence is for This is England. It sets the backdrop for the radicalism of the National Front and a splintered subset of skins. On display: the women of Greenham Common, the Iranian Embassy Siege, the nationwide miner’s strike, a bolstered Thatcher and Reagan and of course, Roland Rat. The opening scene shows the harsh reality of life in 1983 as mines were being closed and our armies were fighting in the Falkland's. It's shot in a gritty style and uses many different images physically filmed in the 80's. The music in the background, is the Toots and the Maytals a band very much listened to by skinheads in the 80's. The opening title features the British flag many times showing the strong levels of patriotism that run throughout the film. The titles tend to be in corners of screen not to take much attention away from the on screen footage. They also names also come up as rolling numbers, the font then looks like a British soldier’s dog tag, a clear symbol to use as Britain was at war during the time the film was supposed to take place. 

In the opening sequence of 'blade 2' we are shown lots of different clips, with a voice over of blade himself. Most of these scenes, are flash backs showing from when he was born, to what he has now become. The titles are in red which could suggest blood, and the main title at the end saying Blade 2 look like swords, with blood on them. It is all black, and shot in low key lighting, showing the film is dark and mysterious. when we see the clip change, the whole screen goes black, giving the impression that a long time has gone past, and we see this as blade goes from a boy to a man.

Posted By Liam Bentley and Sam Rushton

Filming Institutions

Film4 is a free digital television channel available in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned and operated by Channel 4. Film4 did not originally focus on broadcasting blockbusters, but nowadays broadcasts mainly mainstream Hollywood movies. The channel frequently has themed nights or seasons in which a number of films centred around one genre, director or actor are shown. As Channel 4 also owns a film production company, Film4 Productions, it shows many of its in-house productions. Film Four was founded in 1998 but later re-named to Film4 in 2006. We would like Film4 to produce our film as we want it to be a hard hitting, gritty film. British film's usually have more depth and more emotion than Hollywood films along with better written story lines and conversations, and we want this to be apparent in our film. Film4 usually casts un-known actors as their budget does not closely rival that of a Hollywood production. We want it to be a successful hard hitting production like This is England, that is inspiring and emotional, but still very entertaining. Strong hard hitting films like This is England and Slum Dog Millionaire were produced by Film4. 

By Sam Rushton and Liam Bentley

Target Audience

The target of our film is the age that the thriller genre most appeals to roughly between 16 - 30, obviously people over this age can still and do still enjoy films from this genre but this age is the most popular. The genre usually appeals most to males, as films usually contains lots of action, violence and cars. But many thriller films have strongly appealed to female audiences such as the Titanic. Thriller's usually appeal to Working class - Middle class people, but sometimes appeal to every class, again using the Titanic as an example. Thrillers appeal would probably appeal to all races, as they have a lot of different things for different people, but Thrillers are usually watched by the Western world so therefore would appeal most here. Thrillers obviously then have a huge audience that they appeal too, and the Thriller genre has many sub-genres. This all have separate audiences that enjoy them. For example fans of horror might be attracted to the SAW films, whereas fans of Gangster/Crime thrillers maybe attracted to the Kidulthood, Adulthood films, so there is a lot of depth in the genre. This is a clear representation of demographic profiling as a white women's doctors needs and wants from a film would not be the same to the needs of a male muslim manager. Psychographic profiling assumes that the audience to be complex and to have certain needs which must be gratified, and thus aim to appeal to the audiences' emotions and psychological needs. We use Young and Rubicam's cross-cultural consumer characteristics:

1. Mainstreamers - 40% of the market, seek conformity and thus tend to buy well know brand names, these people would be attracted to the stereotypical thriller films, produced with a big budget by Hollywood, with a star filled cast.

2. Aspires - Motivated by status, buy high fashionable goods, again would be attracted by high end big blockbuster productions. Anything that was full of celebrities.

3. Succeeders - Have already climbed the ladder and want to keep control. Would be open minded and attracted to both high budget American films and lower budget British produced films. Open minded people with real world experience.

4. Reformers - This group want the world to be a better place, educated people. Thrillers may not appeal to many of these people as they usually contain a lot of violence, killing, guns, drugs etc.

We hope our film appeals to everybody, but we are aiming to appeal mostly to succeeders as they are more open minded, have more real world experience, and don't expect as much as some people do out of the big budget production of films.

Posted by Sam Rushton

Genre Conventions

The genre of our film is Thriller, but with a crime-gangster sub genre. Thriller is a genre that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenres are mystery, crime, and psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the Hitchcock’s movies. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each sub-genre has its own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. We intend to use many of these characteristics in our film, although we do not really want to follow the genre exactly and want to mix it up and bring other characteristics into the genre. Thrillers are usually in busy hetic genres e.g cities. Plots usually involve something being stolen, taken etc and somebody trying to get it/them back, or some people trying to kill each other, this leads to the thriller genre to be one of the most appealing and exciting genres invented. Characters are usually male, and well built. He is always good at something, e.g he could be a good assassin or a good driver e.g the transporter. The main character is always saves the day and usually good defeats evil in this genre, all in a fast paced action packed film. All this is shown in this 3 minute clip of The Transporter 3.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phtEQ2RBx2A&feature=related  (Embedding was disabled on this clip)



Posted by Sam Rushton and Liam Bentley

Questionaire

Our main target audience would be between the ages of 16-25, but the Thriller genre appeals to most people of both sexes. The cinema is aimed at this group, and to get the most people to watch it, we have to aim it at that group. We have now created a questionaire to help us look at what our target audience want in a film, which would help us with our own film.

Age -
Sex -

Question 1 - What is your favorite film genre?

Question 2 - (from the question above) What experience do you get from this genre?

Question 3 - How often do you go to the cinema?

Question 4 - Who do you prefer going to the cinema with?

Question 5 - What is the most genre of film you have watched at the cinema?


Question 6 - What is your favorite film?


Question 7 - Do you prefer going to the cinema or watching films on DVD?


Posted Liam Bentley and Sam Rushton

Preliminary Filming Task

When filming, we learnt useful techniques, like the 180 degree rule, and the use of the tri-pod and camera. Now we know this, we can improve and produce better quality videos. During the editing, we improved the continuity, and only picked the shots we wanted, making the film look a lot more professional and smooth. We hope to bring this into our final piece of coursework.

Filmed by Sam Rushton

Uploaded by Liam Bentley and Sam Rushton

Top 20 Grossing Films of all time

Rank	Title	USA Box Office
1.	Avatar (2009)	$760,505,847
2.	Titanic (1997)	$600,779,824
3.	The Dark Knight (2008)	$533,316,061
4.	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	$460,935,665
5.	Shrek 2 (2004)	$436,471,036
6.	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)	$434,949,459
7.	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace(1999)	$431,065,444
8.	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)	$423,032,628
9.	Toy Story 3 (2010)	$414,984,497
10.	Spider-Man (2002)	$403,706,375
11.	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	$402,076,689
12.	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith(2005)	$380,262,555
13.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)	$377,019,252
14.	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	$373,377,893
15.	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	$370,270,943
16.	Jurassic Park (1993)	$356,784,000
17.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(2002)	$340,478,898
18.	Finding Nemo (2003)	$339,714,367
19.	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	$336,530,303
20.	Alice in Wonderland (2010)	$334,185,206

In the top 20 grossing films of all time, there are a lot of thrillers showing it is a very popular genre. e.g Avatar.


by Sam Rushton and Liam Bentley