Grand Independent, The 72 Hour Project, The Confusion of Tongues funding

The Confusion of Tongues funding

Hey everyone, can you please help fund a feature film I will be a part of, which has to be made in 72 hours. It's called The Confusion of Tongues and we would benefit from any amount you want to give. There could also be a reward in it for you too!!! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1852744087/the-confusion-of-tongues

Here is also a link to our Facebook and Twitter pages too if you want more information about the film!

https://www.facebook.com/the72project

https://twitter.com/the72project

Tutorials 2

Tutorials 2

Having uploaded a tutorial before, I wanted to blog about some more for people that have trouble with using after effects, I'm still learning even now.

these are the one's we used in our tutorials

so here's one on Fractal Noise Galaxy tutorial

https://vimeo.com/5260717

Puppet pin tool tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcp1gubwNg0

and a Grunge text tutorial.

CSR Corporate Video, A Wasted Journey.

CSR Corporate Video, A Wasted Journey.

This was my very first Corporate video, and we all had to pick a subject to work on. Ours was about recycling in halls, and our idea was to show the journey of the waste, so from the minute the students recycle to finding out exactly what happens to it.

The first thing we wanted to get across to the students is that, not everything stays in the one skip, even though it looks like it does, because at the university, there are separate bins for different waste and then everything is thrown into one skip, but, when we went to the recycling plant H. Brown and Sons "(where the waste is recycled) we saw that the waste is separated and sorted into different sections for it to be deposed of.

So this is the journey we wanted to create for our 3 minute corporate film called "A Wasted Journey".

In the edit we started off with students opinions of what they thought happens to the waste, with the questions we asked appearing on screen with transitions of it fading in and off the pages, followed by student interviews. We then showed them exactly what happens with a range of footage from the University of the rubbish being thrown away all into one bin, the journey to the plant and then the separation of the waste. I then decided to create a montage of the shots we took at the plant. (the machines used to separate the waste also the process it goes through) This was to show the students the truth about recycling.  To give the video a more professional touch I intertwined interviews with H. Brown and Sons manager to tell us where the waste goes and what happens to it.  It ended with a range of information about what the university does about recycling through it's range of posters, PDF'S and information on it's website about the recycling.

Having done the final edit for this, I could have done better, maybe if we added more information about what the university and the recycling plant does to help the students recycle.

48 Hour Film Project, Staffordshire University

48 Hour Film Project, Staffordshire University

This was my first 48 Hour Project and at first I didn't no what to expect from it because, I had created shorts before but in sixth form and was still learning the in's and out's of media.

I was also learning while creating this as I was in my early stages of my first year.

from the project we had to write, shoot and edit the film all in the 48 hours.

we had to create our film from a line generated by an app which had to be in any part of the film, ours was - "My friend Joe had an argument with my boss"

Our film was called "Knocking at the Devil's Door"



https://vimeo.com/85100232

Stoke Your Fires, Symposium

Stoke Your Fires, Symposium 

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

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."

Thor, A Dark World: Review

Thor, A Dark World: Review

When I first saw the trailer for this I could see a storyline but there wasn't much of it and from my point of the view the trailer gives a slightly different story to the film, and I thought certain elements of the trailer were going to be in different sections of the film. For example The final battle to pacify the Nine Realms (which is the first time you see Thor) would have been at the end because from the trailer it looks like the final battle scene. 

There is good and bad points about this trailer because the storyline seems different from the actually movie, so you have to go and watch it to see what it's like, but the trailer does give a lot of the action away (but no the plot line) which for some viewers can be boring if they already know what is going to happen.

I did Like the film overall, the use of bring back Loki, really brought his fan base to the film as well and the twist he has in the film really shows he characters personality.

I found the introduction to Vanaheim brilliant and the concept art for Thor's home beautiful. defiantly one of my favourite locations in a film.

The effects used in the film were good very similar to "The Avengers" which worked to give the film a comic book style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvJ9FTgZbM

Short Chase scenes

Short Chase scenes

Getting short practical tasks in tutorials can really help develop a range of skills, including, communication, editing practice and production skills.

The task was to create a short chase scene and it had to be filmed on an iPhone.

We had a week to complete this task, while doing other work and assessments for our other modules.

I did enjoy coming up with the idea for this short, but if we had more time to shoot and more pre-production time to come up with an idea, it would have been better.

The main idea was to see what the key elements were to a chase scene -  the protagonist, the antagonist, the reason behind the chase and the outcome.

https://vimeo.com/88235756