Research Espionage

For our media video we have decided to go with the genre 'Espionage' or the commonly known as a 'Spy Film'. We came to this decision due to having many different ideas of where we could film, what it could be about and so on. Where as our other options didn't give us many places to go, with out going down the same route of similar films. Our other options were a psychological thriller, which when it came down to talking to Sir about it, we were then informed that we are no longer allowed to do a psychological film so any idea we did have is now out the window! Our second option was an action thriller, however we decided that doing an action film wasn't the route we wanted to go down, after researching things about action thriller and watching examples we came to a decision that we really didn't want to go down that road. When we came across Espionage, I personally wasn't familiar with this genre however as we were decusing our ideas, we all came to a decision that this was the genre that seemed most exciting! So in order to become even more familiar with the espionage genre, there was some research that had to be done... 

The spy film genre, which is mainly the sub-genre of thriller and action, deals with the subject of fictional espionage either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy. Spy films show the espionage activities of government agents and their risk of being discovered by their enemies. From the Nazi espionage thrillers of the 1940s to the James Bond films of the '60s and to the high-tech blockbusters of today, the spy film has always been popular with audiences worldwide. Offering a combination of exciting escapism, technological thrills, and exotic locales, the spy film combines the action and science genres, presenting clearly delineated heroes for audiences to root for and villain's for them to hiss.