Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Time Travel
Back to the future was 25 years old exactly yesterday (look at the time code in the DeLorean at Twin Pines Mall in the beginning of the film). This is my favorite film ever. I have watched it loads of times but the next time i will watch it for the technical aspects such as lighting, sound scene construction. I am not a big fan of art house movies but this BA has caused me to look at some. The absence of any coherent (in my opinion) story lets you see the film for its aesthetics.
This same degree of detail of mise-en-scene is present in main stream film making and this is something i will be exploring over the next few weeks by looking at the "making of docs" on DVDs and watching some of my favorite films with the Directors Comments turned on, something i have never done!
I have been steadily looking at films in this more technical way, I hope it doesn't stop me from watching a film purely for entertainment!
I have watched a few films this last week that have a Time and Memory theme. I particularly like the way the new Star Trek film uses time as away to delete all the other films! I'm not sure about the Sands of Time as a film but the idea of going back to the start of the movie interested me, you could almost watch the film on a loop if the ending was edited differently.
Time Travel does seam to be a difficult subject to show on film, there are numerous plot holes to fall into, such as why does the second Terminator go back to a later date? or why isn't Kyle Reece's first thought to buy a lottery ticket!
Monday, 25 October 2010
Stick Man
The aspect ratio test seamed to work, so here's my first short film tenuously linked to the project theme Time and Memory. it is based on a "MEMORY" i have of a dream where there is a noise in the attic.
16:9 test upload
trying to get widescreen video. the last post (fake Movie Trailer)is 16:9 squashed to 4:3.
Time and Memory
I cleared out some things from our attic over the weekend. It's amazing how many memories are stored in the least used room of the house. Whilst i was up there i saw an opportunity for a short film to start off research on this years project.
Stick Man will be online shortly...
Stick Man will be online shortly...
Idea for Project
There was a competition to pitch an idea to the BBC's writers room for a psychological Thriller. As our project will be Time and Memory i decided to pitch an idea based on a man with two distinct memories of who he is, one good one evil. but cannot discern who he really is. This Theme may play a part in my project.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
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