BAFTA's

Did I agree with all  decisions? Not at all but I have to say watching the BAFTA's is truly inspiring ! It has made me feel part of the film community which not everyone can relate to. Although I haven't personally watched Argo, from the few snipets I have viewed of the film I didn't think it should have won as many awards for example; Best film, I think Les Miserables should have, Though this is personal bias and Argo must have been a truly spectacular film to win Best film and the BAFTA's. All the awards were truly deserved. and Les Mis did win many awards which was deserved.

Watching it for the first time properly was truly tremendous experience as previously I would simply read who won out of the newspapers, but you don't hear the humourous jokes of Stephen Fry, the beauty of Bradley Cooper and the wit of Sam L. Jackson and his jokes about Snakes on a plane. As well as the great and amazing acceptance speeches!

One day I hope to be hosting or being part of the BAFTA's however, for now I shall just sit, watch and dream about how great and Inspiring it is!

Final filming !

*To final count down* It's our final filming! We will be filming our forty hall scene, running scenes and train scenes !! The excitement ! Afterwards we will be finished for editing !! We will be shooting this footage today and we will be missing our media lesson to do this ! But don't worry we will catch up !!

WEATHER!

Oh how I love you for once ! We will be filming the final footage for our film on Friday and the weather is perfect so we are happy !!

Running!

In Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging the opening is of a girl (Georgia) running home of embarrassment as she went to a fancy dress party as a olive! Similar to our opening with the running (but not running home from a party) or in an olive costume !
but I really like some of the shots and I think our group can replicate it like the wide shots, panning shots My favourite shot is between 2.36s - 2.46 when the camera tracks towards Georgia as she runs towards the camera itself causes them to meet at the middle, the camera then pans right and Georgia is central in the frame showing her trying to enter the gate.

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Timelapse!

I feel like we haven't explained in detail why we have put our Time lapse in our 2 minute opening, so here is a Power Point I have made explaining it more clearly.

Thinking of names

My name is... My name is... My name is... Well we are kind of stuck on that one. We really can't quite find a suitable name for our 2 minute opening. One of Alicia's great ones was Taken 3 even though our opening/film has nothing to do with people being taken. Another that Hannah had suggested was Misled. Which I quite like because the girl in our film is misled by gang members. So that one gets a check on our name list from me! However in the time I wrote this blog I have just found that there is a film has been released this year called misled :(

I dreamed a dream...

On Saturday, I went to see les Miserablés with Alicia and some others, and there is one word that can describe it ...Amazing !! The cinematography was outstanding and I have to say it even topped 'The Impossible', which I also watched this year. The singing was brilliant for a cast of actors and not professional singers, and the acting was truly believable! The sound effects were very realistic and at one point when Javert commits suicide, he falls off the side and you heard his body crack. That was very horrific and it was so sad when Gavrosh died! The cinematography was so realistic and believable from costume and make-up to set and lighting! All I say is it is a Must watch however Is nearly 3 hours long !!

Here's some info on the film that I got from wikipedia:

Les Misérables is a 2012 British musical drama film produced by Working Title Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the musical of the same name by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg which is in turn based on Les Misérables, the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo. The film is directed by Tom Hooper, scripted by William Nicholson, Boublil, Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, and stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Seyfried.








If you want to listen to a one man les mis video here it is...
(this man is AMAZING he does the female and male voices, also watch his 1 man Disney medley)




and if that is not enough and you want the trailer, here it is...

Snow !

Oh how most people love snow! Although it is not my favourite of the weathers it sure does look pretty. BUT [and this is a big but !] we were hoping to film on Wednesday (as it is academic review day at school) and this was probably going to be our last day of filming, but the snow has ruined that plan ! and I am frankly very disappointed, happy we got a day off school, but upset we won't be able to film... UNLESS there was an odd day of immense heat due to global warming that would melt all the snow in Enfield... but that is highly unlikely, unfortunately for our group, So we will just have to find a plan B!