Casino Royale Introduction

This is probably one of my favourite introductions to any film. Even though it would probably be almost impossible for our group to do (seen as we don't have any animation skills), the music, colours and patterns make this intro very unique. I also think this introduction stands out as it is very different to any other James Bond introduction that has been made. The idea of the silhouettes in the introduction has stayed throughout the films, however with the use of various patterns and colour, it makes the intro stand out from the rest of the films. I also love the contrast of colours, from the start of the introduction where it is black and white and the famous 'James Bond gun' shot takes place, to the rest of the introduction and how colourful it is, it manages to make the introduction look that much more interesting.

Inspiration

After watching Inglourious Basterds, Athena and I were given an idea of a certain shot that was used in the film. It is an overhead shot, and we thought it looked great, so we may attempt to create our own overhead shot, and we thought we'd just do a quick vlog about it.

Inglourious Basterds

Even though I was in a similar situation as I was when watching Se7en (constantly hiding my face away at the most disgusting scenes) I really enjoyed this film. Normally I don't really have an interest in films set during World War's, but I took a liking to this one. I loved the plot line in this film as it was so untrue to what happened in reality (maybe that's why I liked it) and I loved how the characters were presented. The colours and various shots gave my group some inspiration for our own film, which hopefully we will be able to pull off. The only part of this film I absolutely hated was probably the very detailed and gruesome scenes, which included scalping and batting people to death, but hopefully that's something i'll get used to during this media course.....

Vlog after filming.

This is our vlog taken just after filming for the second time on the underground (and in the freezing cold). We managed to get 3 new time lapse shots, and have had a few more ideas for future filming !

Time Lapse

This is a 'taster' of what the time lapse might look like. Athena, Alice and Josh went out and filmed this, but we're thinking we need to film about 5 more times to get all the outfits we need.

Quite a clever advert ! The part where his clothes change is similar to our idea for our final film.

Se7en

On Wednesday the Media group watched the film 'Se7en' starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. The plot was very interesting, however the film itself was very gruesome ! I admit I'm not very good with gruesome things so i must've missed about half of the film, due to hiding away, but from what I saw I very much liked it.

The acting in this was of course fantastic (as it was Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman), and  put together with the twists, plot line and creepiness made a brilliant thriller.

This is the opening credits to the film, and as the film unraveled the relationship between the opening credits and the plot becomes clear. I guess it's a good way of keeping people on their toes and pointing out things that were in the introduction, and it worked for us !