Sorry For My Long Absence

Hey guys just wanted to apologise for being away so long but I'm currently struggling with a massive production product while trying to do essays. I'll hopefully be back tomorrow evening with In the cinema and hopefully a third installment of Life As a Film Student.

In the mean time leave me your blog links or links of blogs you love so I can take a look. Hope your week is going well :)


Jaye

Wishlist- #1

1.  Motel Scoop Back Sequin Lace Skater Dress - Asos, 2. Boots - H&M, 3. Neon Yellow Fisherman Knit Jumper - Glamourous, 4. Black Dog Bite Print T-Shirt - River Island, 5. Klarissa Mesh Insert Bodycon Dress - Missguided, 6. Klackskor Bold- Modekungen

Thought I'd do a wishlist as I haven't done a fashion post in a while. I've been wanting to do a few more outfit posts but I can't find my tripod boohoo.

I'm in love with these shoes!! Most of the shoes I own are black, they're just so easy to pair with a pair or jeans or a dress no matter the colour. I shouldn't really be looking at dresses, I seem to buy loads and then never wear them they just hang sadly in my wardrobe for months. I love the Asos dress more then the Missguided one. I'm really loving lace at the moment and the mesh inserts on the other dress frighten me a bit. I would love to wear an all black outfit with this neon jumper. I've been wanting a neon jumper for a while but I never have any money. Last but not least that top! I need this top, the print is amazing. I doubt they do but I really hope those teeth glow in the dark!

 Do you have any favourite items?

What I'm Excited to See | The Mortal Instruments

I used to read a teen magazine called Sugar a few years ago called Sugar (which closed in 2011 and became sugarscape.com, which I think is now part of Cosmopolitan?).
Anyway, they had a small book section every month and this is where I first discovered The Mortal Instruments. It definitely sounded like my kind of book so I gave it a read and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Sometime last year that I went online to find out when the next book was being released. Not only did I find that out, but also that there was going to be two more books in the Mortal Instruments series, a sequel series set five years in the future featuring both new and old characters, a set of prequels (The Infernal Devices) the first of which I have already read and finally a film!!!

Mind officially blown!! A film! I couldn’t believe it. This is what I wanted, one of my favourite books to be made into a film. Now months later I’ve just watched the trailer and I'm even more excited then I was before.

The film is based on the first book in the Mortal Instruments series (City of Bones) which tells the story of fifteen-year-old Clary Fray, who discovers she is a Shadowhunter after witnessing a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons.
Not everyone's type of book but it definitely is a favourite of mine.

The film is scheduled for release on 23rd August 2013, so I’m going to re-read the first 3 books and try to read the fourth before it’s released.

Are you excited to see this?

Films Watched in January

I usually like to post these at the beginning of the month but I forgot so I'm only posting it now. I don't know if anyone's noticed but this is day three of posting everyday for either 5 or 7 days and I also hit 2000 views the other day!!! Yey me :)

So here's January's list. All my favourites are in bold.

Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (Paul Tickell, 2000)
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
Snakes on A Plane (David R. Ellis, 2006)
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (Timur Bekmambetov, 2012)
Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, 2012)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Monster-in-Law (Robert Luketic, 2005)
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012)



Are any of your favourites here?

Beauty and the Beast (2012 TV series)

Cast: Kristen Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Nina Lisandrello, Brian White, Jay Ryan, Max Brown

Summary: A beautiful detective falls in love with an ex-soldier who goes into hiding from the secret government organization that turned him into a mechanically charged beast.

I read somewhere that there was going to be a TV show adaptation of Beauty and the Beast so I decided to do some investigating and went-a-searching on the internet for the UK premier date, unfortunately it had yet to receive one.
Then a couple weeks later I saw an advert at the train station that said it was being shown on Watch at 9pm on Wednesdays.

My mum, dad and I sat down to watch the pilot episode last Saturday (26/01) and all I can say is that I have never been so disappointed with a program in my 19 years of living.

Okay well maybe that's not entirely true, remember Lost (2004-2010)?

Firstly the acting was horrendous particularly with Kristin Kreuk and her partner Tess Vargas (Nina Lisandrello).
Secondly the plot is just terrible. The pilot explains how the two (Beauty and the Beast) first encountered each other and then for some unexplainable reason skips ahead 10 years, but when we're reintroduced to the characters it feel like something is missing.

I don't want to give too much away about what happens but in my opinion the script is pretty poor. plot moves way to fast, ridiculously fast in fact.
The plot moves way too fast, ridiculously fast in fact, so fast that it feels as though you've missed a couple of episodes and everything about Catherine and Vincent to me feels unrealistic and ungenuine (is this a word?).

Has anyone seen it? If you have leave me a comment!

Film | In the Cinema - February #2

Here’s part two of the goodies in the cinema this month.

February 14

Run for Your Wife- John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. When the police discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst.

A Good Day To Die Hard- John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.

This is 40- A look at the lives of Pete and Debbie a few years after the events of Knocked Up.


February 15

Side by Side – The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.

For Ellen – A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.

Reign of Assassins – Drizzle/Zeng Jing tries to start a new life after she had betrayed her gang and hid the remains of monk.


February 18

Everyday – The relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.


February 22

Cloud Atlas – An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Mama – Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years.... but how alone were they?

Lore – As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

Song For Marion – Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James.

Fire In The Blood – An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996.


February 27

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters – In this spin on the fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel are now bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.

Prouction Excercise: When Harry Met Sally

A few days ago I did my first post on Life as a Film Student talking about my Directing Drama class.

For the module we have to shoot a short exercise to show our technical ability before we can move on to the final project, so on Tuesday we did a quick rehearsal with our three actors. We took them through an empty classroom and went through what we wanted them to do before, getting them to read through the script and then run through it as though we were filming.

Here things began to look as though they were going downhill.

The girl we picked to use as Sally couldn't do the orgasm, which is understandable as there were 6 people (five girls and 1 guy) watching her and she only knew one of them. At one point the guy playing the role of Harry swapped roles with her and did the orgasm himself, we even offered to do it with her so she wouldn't feel as nervous or embarrassed but that didn't work out either. So a couple of us left the room to give them some privacy and when we got back she was finally able to do it.

Jump to Wednesday 8.30am we were all set up and about to shoot I noticed that there was no sound coming through the boom. Major crisis as the technician wouldn’t be in until 9.30, but thankfully I found the module leader who gave me new cable but once again the sound wasn't coming through. So we went back to the module leader to get a new camera and BINGO we had lift off.

Cast and Crew in action

We did come across a few other problems with the library and the reluctance of the head Libraian, but in the end we managed to get it all filmed and we were out of the library by 10.30. We headed to the editing suite around 11/11.30 and had a rough cut edited by 2.30, Thursday we came back and started fixing the sound and Friday we added the finishing touches.

Sally

Harry

Editing

Life as a Film Student- #1

When I started writing this I was sitting in one of the cafés on campus planning productions and blog posts with my delicious Belgian chocolate chip cookie, (I miss this cookie).
Anyway, my sister keeps going on at me to post more about what I do at uni so here’s a little post about what I got up to on Monday.

For the past few weeks Monday’s have just been for meetings. I had a meeting with my Directing Drama tutor (Director Paul Tickell, Christie Malry's Own Double Entry, 2000) and the rest of my group. The majority of the meeting was spent discussing our final production piece, where we showed him a clip of the scene we are planning to do and a couple pages of the adapted script.
The last few minutes were spent discussing our technical exercise, which we have to do before our final piece for the module. The technical exercise is just to show how well we work with the equipment, so to help us get started we have to have refresher camera training and refresher edit training

  

My group picked the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989), we’ve managed to find our actors and get our location, we did a quick rehearsal with the actors today and we’ll be shooting tomorrow morning.
I’ll try and take some pictures of the shoot tomorrow to show you guys.

Film | In the Cinema - February

Hey guys so I’ve decided to split this month's In The Cinema in half because there’s so many goodies being released so look out for part two in the next few weeks.

February 1

The Punk Syndrome – A film about Finland's most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät whose band members are mentally handicapped.

Flight – An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

Hyde Park on Hudson – The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Stand Up Guys - A pair of aging con men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment -- to kill his comrade.

Bullet To The Head – After watching their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Do Elephants Pray – The life of advertising executive Callum Cutter is thrown into poetic chaos when he meets the free-spirited French seductress Malika who promises to change his life forever, providing he keeps her identity a secret.

Bullhead – A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.

All Stars – Two kids look to throw an ambitious dance show in order to save their struggling youth center.

Antiviral – After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save his own life.

Chained – A cab-driving serial killer stalks his prey on the city streets alongside his reluctant protégé Tim, who must make a life or death choice between following in his footsteps or breaking free from his captor.


February 8

Hitchcock – A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959.

I Give It A Year – A look at the trials and tribulations of a pair of newlyweds during their first year as a married couple.

No – An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Warm Bodies – After R saves Julie from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

Wreck-It Ralph – A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

I Wish – 12-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, begins to believe that the new bullet train service will create a miracle when the first trains pass each other at top speed.


February 13

Beautiful Creatures – Ethan longs to escape his small Southern town. He meets a mysterious new girl, Lena. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.