An example of the helicopter with sunset backgrounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx2dHAguuU

Trade Marks

Intense slow motion shots of characters

Films often feature a US President giving a major speech before a major action is to be committed.

Has the camera moving during most scenes. Very rarely uses static shots.

(2001) His last 3 films all share, two male leads at odds with another, a cataclysmic event as the narrative's fulcrumic point, the film's lead female character has, been a long haired brunette, and watched the film's climax from a control room

Actors in his films are almost uniformly shot in tight, emphatic close ups, framed under the hairline and above the chin.

Often uses lightflashes like cameraflashes to enhance scenes.

Often has over-the-top visuals like key events taking place at sunset or dramatic events taking place behind actors doing routine activities.

Utilizes monotonic but intense musical cues during action-filled car chase scenes (Bad Boys II, The Island)

Uses shots of aircraft against a setting sun, especially helicopters (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers).

Often features a slow-motion shot of an object crashing into, or tumbling towards the camera.

Uses a shot where the camera spins in a circle around characters. (Bad Boys II, Transformers)

Frequently incorporates scenes that involve characters running or moving towards the camera (almost always shot in slow-motion)

Big explosions

He occasionally makes cameo appearances in his films like in Bad Boys II he plays a guy driving a small beat-up old car which Martin Lawrence attempts to borrow, a NASA scientist in Armageddon, and in Transformers he is the "disgusting" human that gets flicked away by Megatron.

Has worked with producer Jerry Bruckheimer on all his films, until The Island.

Is known for his high grossing action-packed movies. All of his movies have grossed more than $100 million, except Bad Boys and The Island.

Frenetic editing of action sequences.

Often includes one black character as comic relief like Eddie Griffin in Armageddon, Leonard McMahan in The Rock, Mark Christopher Lawrence in The Island, the minstrely robots Skids and Mudflap in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Most of his films have a shot of pilots running toward their aircraft for takeoff.

All his films have at least one shot of a man screaming in slow motion. Usually as a battle cry.

Films directed by Michael Bay that i will be studing are;

Armageddon (1998)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq6q2BrTino

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/

Bad Boys II (2003)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCSkxu6Fnlk

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172156/

Transfomers (2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8EKXLwmV7o

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/

Mini Biography
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Tuner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and 'The DiVinyls'. His work won him recognition and a number of MTV award nominations. He also filmed advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Miller Lite. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for his "Got Milk/Aaron Burr" commercial. At Cannes, he has won the Gold Lion for The Best Beer campaign for Miller Lite, as well as the Silver for "Got Milk". In 1995 Bay was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year. That same year he also directed his first feature film, Bad Boys (1995), starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, which grossed more than $160 million worldwide. His follow-up film, The Rock (1996), starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, was also hugely successful, making Bay the director du jour (most popular, or prominent at a particular time).

For my AS film resarch project i will be studing Michael Bay as a director.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000881/

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