Stoke Your Fires, Symposium
Olivia Twist was an adaptation of the story Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
The film worked well with having a change in gender as the main role and also updating the story to the 21st century so it could link to a modern audience.
Overall I think Oliver Twist has been adapted so many times even though this is the first time I have seen a modern version of the story, but adapting another unfamiliar story might have been better to use, so the narrative can be new to everyone.
Discussion - Why Make Feature Films
This question came up after a Twitter argument spurred up after Digital marketing strategist, Sheri Candler tweeted something on the terms of why make feature films any more?
At the event students, lectures and directors had a discussion about it and here are some quotes I took from the discussion about there feelings on feature films.
Arno Hazebroek - "It's about the journey", "you need to have passion"
Peter Rudge - "that was my escape", "can potentially change their life" "an amazing art form."
This event was a learning experience for myself and I really enjoyed the three films we saw which were
- "How to Be Happy".
- "After Cease to Exist".
- and" Olivia Twist".
All of the films seen I enjoyed and they were all different from each other.
"How to be Happy"
How to be Happy was a male character who was a marriage councillor and give people advice on marriage, but throughout the story he gets close to all of his female clients and a private investigator is hired to spy on him to see what he is doing and towards the end of the story the private investigator and the male lead fall in love with each other.
It was a very comical story, and is my favourite out of the three and overall they filmed it 3 weeks I though, characters were funny, the storyline worked with all the characters and each character had a certain role in the story line.
"After Cease to Exist" - John Bradburn
The story line to this film was very complicated and I didn't get it until someone told me after but, the story line was about the characters being in Purgatory and surviving in purgatory for a certain time.
I did like this film but by not getting the story line it was a bit confusing. the camera work was my favourite element of it, mainly some shots that looked like they had used a VHS camera, they really brought a crazy/insane feeling to the film.
Overall the film cost £3000 to make, and when talking to the director earlier he said if he has the chance he would have shot the whole thing with the VHS style camera.
Olivia Twist - Arno Hazebroek
Overall the film cost £3000 to make, and when talking to the director earlier he said if he has the chance he would have shot the whole thing with the VHS style camera.
Olivia Twist - Arno Hazebroek
Olivia Twist was an adaptation of the story Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
The film worked well with having a change in gender as the main role and also updating the story to the 21st century so it could link to a modern audience.
Overall I think Oliver Twist has been adapted so many times even though this is the first time I have seen a modern version of the story, but adapting another unfamiliar story might have been better to use, so the narrative can be new to everyone.
Discussion - Why Make Feature Films
This question came up after a Twitter argument spurred up after Digital marketing strategist, Sheri Candler tweeted something on the terms of why make feature films any more?
At the event students, lectures and directors had a discussion about it and here are some quotes I took from the discussion about there feelings on feature films.
Arno Hazebroek - "It's about the journey", "you need to have passion"
Peter Rudge - "that was my escape", "can potentially change their life" "an amazing art form."
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