Tuesday 5 January 2010

Free Running: A Brief History- Jason


Our production will contain a number of scenes that will involve "free running". Free running is a form of acrobatics which makes uses of city landscapes to perform an array of athletic movements and stunts. These stunts are usually performed to awe an audience which also the desired effects of our media production scenes.

Free running has been used in a number of media texts including films, music videos and video games. Though there have been much controversy behind free running, many still use it today to entertain audiences. As mentioned before, video games are now using free running as a basis for movement. One game i would like to look at in particular is a game called Mirrors Edge.

Serving as an inspiration for our media production, this game also gives us ideas on realistic uses for free running. Set in an urban city, this game can be useful in many ways by giving us a view of things we can expect while shooting some of our scenes. This game can also act as a guideline for shooting our free running scenes in our production. Seeing as this game heavily relies on free running acrobatics, our understanding of free running can also improve resulting in better and more effective free running scenes.

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