Thursday 16 October 2014

Little Update Ideas - Location

Our short film doesn't heavily feature many location shots. Referring back to the pitch, it states thats it mainly features in a bedroom/or a house setting that looks homely. There will also be flashbacks and they will either be in a forest setting that looks beautiful and enchanted and then there will be other flashbacks that get darker  and develop more meaning to the story.

Ideas for the house/bedroom:

George is playing the main character in the short film. He is a Sgt/Major at the ACF Kingston Park detachment. He lives on the TA base and this gives us great access to film the army vechicles...etc. Also means we don't have to travel around in order to get a lot of footage covered. I hope that his house looks homely and what i have in my mind. I am going to have pictures put up that are ideal and represent what i want for my short film. We will try and find things that are closest to these ideas.

We may use some back field that is next to Pelaw metro for the flash back scene with my young nephew Alfie who will be playing the younger version of George.

Place we could go:
- filler scenes - TA centre at Kingston park
- Pathways/ the forest


PROBLEM WITH FILMING OUTSIDE AT THE MOMENT:
It is really cold and this could affect things. Make it look misty and not very warm, and also we are working with a 3 year old which could be challenging because it'll be really cold.

Tuesday 7 October 2014

Nicolas Cage film: 'Joe'

Somewhere in July (Would like to the say the 28th of July, but I could be wrong), Me, Callum (I past student who was on the media course) and Daniel (a student at this school), went to see Joe the film. I liked how the film didn't have lots of locations and it was centred around a small town. It showed a lot of history and character that moulded the character into what he is now. E.g, his upbringing, the people he knows in the town, the relationship he ahs with them, his work destroying trees...etc.

 

Website for review:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/27/joe-review-nicolas-cage-return-to-form-deep-south-drama