Saturday, 24 December 2011

Here are some pictures of our set and prosthetics (prosthetics? I don't know what word I mean. It's probably not that...) for our coursework:
Jess's living room (+Hannah)

Another angle. We couldn't remove the Christmas tree, it was huge.

This is the rug where I die. We gained permission from Jess's mum to use this rug (it was got out of the loft especially so that we could destroy it because they were throwing it away anyway), as it was going to get bloody.

This is the kitchen where I failed to get a bottle of water about 20 times because I couldn't shut the fridge...

This is the kitchen again. 

This is the cut we used in the scene. It's pretty cool. We didn't actually cut me, don't worry. It's special wax that Jess's mum has that make wounds. And that's not real blood. It's washing up liquid (which smells absolutely wonderful, by the way) mixed with food colouring (which we thought was meant to taste like nothing. It did not. We put it on spaghetti and nearly died because it tasted so bad... [For health and safety reasons, I should probably add that we did not literally nearly die. But we slightly wished we had after that. Food colouring is not nice, at all]).

We decided to use the living room and kitchen because it is a normal place where you expect this character to be, as she is just a normal person. The only problem that we really encountered was with the kitchen and knowing which angles to use, because we initially intended for me to get a glass out, but it was too cramped and so I had move further down towards the fridge. Also, we had to deal with the kitchen being around the corner and having to decide whether to do a tracking shot, or whether to let me leave the frame and start another one in the kitchen.

Monday, 19 December 2011

Oh, and, we made a YouTube channel for our group.
http://www.youtube.com/user/CatsInSpace2011?feature=watch

Preliminary Exercise


So me and Jess went to HRC today and learned how to become technical geniuses. Here is our preliminary exercise. We just need to convert it again because the quality is kind of poor, but yes. Here it is.

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Slumdog Millionaire.

I've decided to venture into the world of prezi.com.
I'm not very good with this website. Then again, I'm not very good with any website, or anything to do with computers. However, I hope it is vaguely understandle.


Saturday, 10 December 2011

Chatroom: Some More Questions.

1. What category of British film is it and why?
Chatroom is a category B British film because it has an almost entirely British cast and crew, with the exception of the Japanese director, Hideo Nakata, and the Japanese composer, Kenji Kawai.



2) Find and analyse and explain how the film was marketed in terms of trailers, posters, billboards, media interviews. When were they released and how?
Edit: THERE IS ALSO A TWITTER, I LIED TO YOU BEFORE. @ChatroomMovie


3) How many cinemas was the film shown in in the UK? How many screenings were there? How long was it shown for?
Chatroom was shown in a broad range of cinema chains, such as Cineworld and Odeon. There is no place which states exactly how many cinemas it was shown in, but it was shown across those two chains. From what I remember when it came out, it was only on like one or two screens, and it wasn't on very long. It was also shown at Cannes on the 12th May, 2010, but was not received very well.


Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Digital Screen Network.

The Digital Screen Network is a network created by the UK Film Council and the Arts Council England to help independent films, restored classics, foreign language films and documentaries get into the cinemas.  It does this by equipping cinemas with digital projection technology. This means that film makers can make a digital copy of their film (costing a lot less than to make a print) to give to cinemas, meaning they can make more copies and have more of a chance of their film being seen.
My Week With Marilyn (at Enfield Cineworld):
Wednesday 7th/Thursday 8th December: 12.30, 14.50, 20.10

After Thursday 8th, it's only shown once a day, at 14.40. It's not even on Tuesday 13th.
I'm guessing this film wasn't very good, then.