The Rabbit Part 2 Film .

This is my newest film . I used some old footage from my previous film (The Rabbit) . I used a crop and three way lighting effect on the clips to give them more atmosphere , this is why the film has a cold feeling towards it . I used crystal castles and the sliver spear waltz for my music because its emotional and hits the audience hard . The storyline is about a rabbit whom murders a guy in a woods , A day later another person sees the rabbit whilst driving he then follows it and it also ends up killing him .

The Rabbit Part 2 - Poster

This is my poster for The Rabbit . I have selected a still image from my film and free transformed it onto a black canvas . I then added the text and changed the levels to blend it with the background .

THE DEAL - Poster

Here is my poster for the film , ( The Deal ) .

The Deal - edited

Here is an edited short film made from three of my films i did this because i saw things from a different angle and i wanted to try the effects and reverse effect on the clips . I have selected the song Doer Deer By Crystal Castles because of the flowing fast shouting throughout it .

Research - Donnie Darko

This is one of my best films ever made and this is what has infulnced my previous work. The film has been carefully made so that there are multiple explanations to what happens. With the release of the director’s cut some of the ambiguity has been taken away and the director’s true version of the story becomes clearer. The explanation heavily revolves around the book Donnie gets from his teacher, “The Philosophy of Time Travel” written by Roberta Sparrow (Grandma Death). The book is a fictional one but some of the pages were in the film’s website and included into the director’s cut version of the movie. You can read those pages here.

PU = Primary Universe (The Universe we exist in now)
TU = Tangent Universe (The parallel Universe that most of the film is set in)
POTT = The Philosophy of Time Travel

Tangent Universe

The POTT states that time is usually a stable construct but every now and then the fourth dimension gets corrupted. When this happens it creates a TU which is highly unstable and will only last a few weeks before it collapses and destroys itself and the PU. This is what happens in the movie, there is a corruption in time and a jet engine falls through it. This has created a TU and the next 28 days is set in this alternate reality.

The Artifact

According to the POTT when a TU is created an Artifact will also spontaneously appear. The Artifact is the first sign of evidence that a TU has been created and are always made from metal. In this case the Artifact is a giant jet engine. It’s the Artifact that makes the Universe so unstable. The TU is supposed to be an exact copy of the PU but it has one anomaly, and extra duplicate jet engine. The only way to close the TU safely is to guide the Artifact back into the PU through a time portal. By removing the extra jet engine it balances out the Universe allowing the TU to collapse without destroying the PU.

The Living Receiver

The Living Receiver is chosen seemingly at random and in this case the chosen one is Donnie. It’s the Living Receiver’s role to guide the Artifact back to the PU. This person is usually blessed with some supernatural powers during their time in the TU including increased strength, the ability to conjure fire and water and telekinesis.

He uses strength to bury the axe into the school water pipe and solid bronze mascot.
He uses fire to burn Jim Cunningham’s house down
He floods the school and constructs a time portal from water.
He uses telekinesis to rip the jet engine off the plane to send it through the time portal.

Manipulated Dead

Anyone connected to the Living Receiver who dies in the TU becomes Manipulated Dead. These people are very powerful and have the ability to move through time and talk to the Living Receiver through a Fourth Dimensional Construct. They also have some knowledge of the impending disaster and help guide the chosen one.

Frank is killed in the TU and therefore becomes one of the Manipulated Dead. He travels back in time and helps Donnie with his quest to return the Artifact. The first thing he must do is save Donnie by waking him up before he gets squashed by the jet engine. He is like a reverse ghost who appears before he was killed. Gretchen is also Manipulated Dead but she doesn’t appear to Donnie in the same way as it might be to confusing for him.

Manipulated Living

All the people connected to the Living Receiver are the Manipulated Living and these people will subconsciously help guide the Living receiver. They will behave in the exact perfect way necessary to push Donnie toward his eventual destiny. Nearly every event in the film has a specific purpose designed to aid Donnie to save the Universe.

The driving force behind there behaviour is God. It’s actually a very religious film, the idea that you follow God’s channel to decide your own fate. God is moving all the characters around like pieces on a chessboard, making a sequence of events that will lead to Donnie’s success. The Universe is in grave danger and God has stepped in to help save it.

What all the Manipulated are trying to do is set an Ensurance Trap so Donnie has no choice but to send the Artifact back. Frank tells Donnie to flood the school which in turn leads to Donnie walking Gretchen home and him then asking her to be his girlfriend. This event is not just coincidence; it’s specifically put in place as part of the trap. Remember Donnie meets and falls in love with Gretchen within the TU. He is given someone to love then she dies the night they first have sex. He is so upset he shoots Frank. If he didn’t kill Frank then Frank can’t save him in the beginning. Now his girlfriend is dead and he is a killer on the run. Sending the engine back is the only way out for him as this will rewind time back to before all this happened.

The End of the Film

At the end of the film we see a vortex appear over Donnie’s house. It’s the beginning of the TU collapse and is centred over where the TU began. Donnie is aware of what he must do now so he drives up the mountain for a better vantage point. God has manoeuvred the plane with the same jet engine to fly overhead at this exact time. Donnie rips the engine off using telekinesis, constructs a time portal from water and guides the engine through it.

We now see parts of the last 28 days rewinding as the TU starts to unravel. The TU has collapsed safely and the PU that was on pause starts back up from when it stopped. We are now back in reality on October 2nd, the last 28 days never happened. Donnie wakes up in his bed laughing after dreaming some of the events within the TU. The jet engine Donnie sent through the time portal then falls into his bedroom killing him.

I fell in love with this film as soon as i watched it and i intend to do something like this with a sophisticated storyline .

The Deal - Short Film

This Film is about two friends who use cannabis to escape from reality . The first charatcher rides towards a unknown location then it cuts to a rabbit riding a bike i wanted this to play on the audiences mind whether it is the same guy or is another actor . The rabbit is used to make the drug dealer standout from soceity . After the deal the rabbit then meets up with his friend to smoke a joint then the identity of the rabbit is unleased. The rabbit also symbolises what the effects of drugs on first charater  as he sees his friend as a rabbit .

THE DEAL - Short film storyboard

Here is my storyboard/stills from my previous film ( The Deal ) .

Research for new film

I researched this film because of the angles and different techniques used throughout it. I like the simple idea of biking throughout a town, changing scenery and composition so that the viewer can see the journey. I also like how the girl puts a camera towards her eye then how it shoots through a point of view shot like your looking through the viewfinder. I am going to film a scene where a rabbit is riding a bike through some streets/forest then the rabbit gets off and hops back into the forest. I want this film to look very surreal and aesthetically pleasing by using lighting and bright colours.

The Rabbit - Edited - Final

This is the edited and Final outcome of my video footage . I decided to speed the movie up and repeat scenes to give the effect of tripping . I like this film and I think the lighting and composition of some of the shots are very well constructed . I am running the drug theme throughout of my project, involving the rabbit as a alterego which tempts you to do bad things or by portraying the rabbit as the evil within us . I also like the driving scenes within this film because it acts like a significant flashback , (The journey of buiring the body) .

Original -The Rabbit

This is original video of the rabbit . I loved shooting this video because of the lighting . This was basically a practice to see whether the lighting would be succesfull or not .

Poster - The Rabbit

This is my film poster from my film 'The Rabbit' . i took this still whilst filimg , I wanted to capture the rabbit in the background to give the image a sense of errieness . The colours in this picture are also succesful because of the contrast between the pink and the greens .

Storyboard - The Rabbit

Here is my storyboard from my latest film 'The Rabbit' . I thought of the location when i was driving past some woods and my lights shined through the trees . I then tested this with the fisheye and a shioulette in the light. The lighting and composition in this film makes it work really well .

The Trip - short video

Here is my video . The trip is about a group of friends which meet up in a flat.They smoke cannabis and hallucinate, they all change into animals including the camera man. This video was meant to be a short silent movie however , i found some music which matched the theme perfectly so i changed it into a music video .

Testing focus/lighting with fisheye lens.

Here i have checked the lighting and focus setting on the cannon before making my film I did this so I knew what the lighting had to be like and how the focus affected the fish eye effect . I used the manual focus all the way through the film to show the drug effects on the characters .

The Trip - Poster

Here are my film posters which i made for my short film 'The Trip' .I think the fish eye lens is very effective and create a brillaint p.o.v shot .

story boards

Here is my storyboard for my first short video ,'The Trip' . I have shot this in fisheye to create the effect that this thoughts and vision has been messed with to show that his vision is inpaired.

Independant film posters research

Here are 12 independant film posters , I have researched these to get a geberal idea of layout and style . I like these posters because the images onh the posters clearly portray what type of film it is . You can tell this by the use of colour and typography which is on the poster .

Connected - Short film

Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.

About the film

Shot in deserted Faxe Kalkbrud, Denmark, and directed by Jens Raunkjær Christensen and Jonas Drotner Mouritsen, Connected is a unique short film, a sci-fi western with a tiny budget, but huge ambitions. A relatively small, but very enthusiastic and talented crew helped bring this bleak vision of the future to the screen. The film is produced with support from The Film Workshop / The Danish Film Institute

I love the look of the film, which makes the most of what I assume to be a fairly low budget. It looks like an old strip from Heavy Metal come to life. You won’t see faces or hear dialogue, but a great set of costume designs and a solid trio of physical performances provide all the character you’ll need. I want to know more about the science and systems behind what is happening here, but you don’t really need that info. That I’m curious about it at all suggests that the film is working.

My only qualm here is the music. The western theme would make more sense in a story where that sort of music might be heard at all. Here, rather than referring to anything about the world or the people in it, the tune basically says, “hey, we’d like this to be a western!” That’s not a huge deal, but it was a bit distracting.

Short film - Still Life

This great short film has left me wanting more. I would love to see Rod Serling introduce this film and in turn learn a bit more about the main character and how he feels about his experiences in that small town. This movie is built around an interesting concept which is delivered very effectively as a psychological thriller. The idea of a sparsely populated small town works very well as the setting here and the winter season only adds to the setting and tone of the movie.

I am left to wonder where the lead character comes from and the series of events that lead him to this small town. As stated earlier I would love to see this as a longer feature to get some of these questions answered. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for future BrookStreet productions.

Pathology

I thought it was an intriguing concept that, if done right, would've made for a fantastic movie. The twisted characters were interesting, but flat at the same time. I think that the leader of this game was psychotic and disturbing in all the best ways, but the rest of the players were passionless and had no mind capturing aspects. The main character was confusing at best, but played as well as he could be by Milo Ventimiglia. This movie needed to be rewritten, taking a serious look into how this game started and why the players found it so captivating and why Ted Gray (the main character) got involved at all. Also, the relationship between Ted and his fiance was lacking, especially since he cheated on her and then was so willing to avenge her death. I was pleasantly surprised at the end when the nice pathologist character, who I was sure was going to die, ended up aiding Ted in killing the ring leader. I think this movie would've been fantastic if the writers had taken more time to develop the story .

i researched this film becasue i want to involve drugs into my video and how it effects the charater . I think the film executed this perfectly, demonstrating this by their unordinary profound behaviour .

Nosferatu

Skillfully mounted and directed, this symbolical legendary cinema story of reanimated ghosts in a period set about a century or so ago when vampirism was pretty well entrenched in the world's beliefs, is a depressive piece of art made even more incompatible for bourgeois theatre fare because of misspotted and poor titling. Latter lends the film more than one confusing moment and therefore it is a risky exhibit for the sure seaters, too ­ although the artistic quality of settings and direction command consideration, this and Murnau's work leaving the question open whether this film was made long ago or lately.

Story is claimed to have been inspired by "Dracula." Whether the play or the book not told. Bram Stoker authored the novel more than 20 years ago and the play which was based on it, written by Hamilton Dean and John Balderson, produced on Broadway by Horace Liveright in October, 1927.
Like the play the picture is a shivery melo spilling ghostlike impossibilities from beginning to end. Action details the forages of a nobleman who is dead yet alive, making night time raids on human beings and compelling them to become subservient to him by sucking the blood from their necks, often plaguing them to death. His especial delight is a pretty woman.

Murnau proved his directorial artistry in "Sunrise" for Fox about three years ago, but in this picture he's a master artisan demonstrating not only a knowledge of the subtler side of directing but in photography.
One shot of the sun cracking at dawn is an eye filler. Among others of extremely imaginative beauty is one which takes in a schooner sailing in a rippling stream photographed in such a manner that it has the illusion of color and an enigmatic weirdness that's more perplexing than the ghost action of the players.
His funeral scene in the deserted town street where the bodies of the plague victims are carried in coffins held aloft by straggling pallbearers is unusual to say the least. Empty shattering buildings photographed to suggest the desperate desolation brought on by the vampire is extremely effective symbolism.

Limitless

Any aspiring writer -- or artist, or filmmaker -- knows what it's like to sit there at the computer and stare at a blank page. Self doubt fueled by rejection after rejection, failed and half-finished projects, credit card bills that have piled up, a girlfriend who wants you to get a real job… Eventually, the question cannot be ignored: Do I really have what it takes to do this?

That's the dilemma that limitless Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is facing. He's a down-on-his luck author, or would-be author, whose life seems to be passing him by. Squirreled away on the outskirts of Manhattan -- well, the Lower East Side anyway -- he's one of those guys we've all encountered before. Youth and ambition have slowly morphed into desperation and desolation. And then he discovers NZT.

It's a drug that allows the user to expand his or her mind, to use 100% of their brain power as opposed to the mere 10% or 20% or whatever that is typically accessed by a human being. When Eddie drops his first hit of NZT, he is immediately transformed, as is director Neil Burger's depiction of Eddie's world. From the humdrum, washed-out and grungy palette of Lesser Eddie is born a new bright and vibrant and intense visual world for Better Eddie. Suddenly able to access every bit of information he's ever seen or heard or smelled, memories he doesn't even know he has, books he glimpsed years earlier, and so on, the NZT-ified Eddie becomes, in essence, the smartest man in the world. The film sets up some very interesting questions but it doesn't answer too many of them as it becomes more of a standard thriller in its final act, as Eddie is accused of murder (which he may or may not have committed even he isn't sure), is pursued by a Russian mobster who has also developed a taste for NZT, and must work out the fine details of a big corporate merger for Van Loon. Oh, and NZT turns out to be highly dangerous: If you stop taking it, you die, basically.
In this film i love all the small cuts ( jump cuts) which creates the effect of the drug working . It is filled with action and not stop entertainment. i researched this film for one perscfic camera shot which is the building shot and how it glides up towards the top of it , i will use this in the short film i create .

SAW

From the first minute to last this film twists and turns you till you feel rather poorly. Just like 'Se7en', the all-round Grittiness that director James Wan creates disgusts and enthralls. Just like 'Se7en', there is a huge twist that makes your blood curdle.

It is well scripted, well acted, and, for everyone who guesses the killer after the first few minutes, keeps you guessing right up to the final reel. It is better than Seven for shock value. It is not over the top gory but there is a final scene which makes you sweat.

Storyboard Research

It is important that i make a story board so it is clear what i am filming and what charaters are saying . This will save time and confusion . I have chosen these three examples because they are all different the first one clearly demonstrates where the story is going by the drawing , the second story board states what the camera is doing , what they are saying and where they actors are moving .the final story board is a brief story board  with annotation withy what happens in the scene . I will create a story board with a mixture of all the titles and annotattions like these storyboards .

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is a little film that was reportedly made for $11,000 over the course of a seven-day shoot by writer/director/producer/editor Oren Peli, and stars newbies Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat and the couple’s camcorder.

The best horror movies are the ones that exploit our deep-seated anxieties about real-life events or situations.  Paranormal Activity will stand out for a long time in my mind because it hits just the right panic buttons inside the brain: the familiar fear of the creaky, empty house at night – but more importantly, the high anxiety of being in a relationship.

The filmmaking techniques and the issue of the “shaky cam” POV. People have heard the concept for this film and worried that they were going to get another Blair Witch Project (too boring) or Cloverfield (seizure inducing camerawork). Paranormal Activity is only short one star for me because the pacing for the first half-hour of its 99 min run time was kind of slow, and offered more creepy atmosphere than actual scares. A slow half-hour in camcorder POV can feel like an eternity , however it seems so genuine and natural  that it’s easy to forget you’re watching a movie, and not actual home video footage. And since there are tripods set up around the house, shaky cam wasn’t really much of an issue. When the actors are holding the camera, every swipe and turn has you nervous that something is lurking just beyond the peripheral of the lens light.

The authentic feel is really the selling point of this film. It exploits enough realistic common ground  to make it feel personal (who hasn't heard that strange sound echo through their home now and again, or woken up to the feeling that somebody is standing over them?), and since few of us actually sleep with a running camcorder in our bedrooms, who’s to say we aren't being visited in the night by something evil?

I enojoyed watching this film and i intend to use some of the camera techniques used in this film .

Research - Independant film - Catfish

Catfish is the documentation of Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, a photographer out of New York, and his correspondence with an eight-year-old Michigan girl named Abby; a young artist who paints one of Nev’s photos and sends him one of her prints. As their relationship develops he begins making big decisions about his future based on the growing connection and attraction between he and Megan, but shortly before things come to a head the documentary begins to pose its larger questions, much of which is left for the audience to answer once they’ve left the theater.

When the story begins to truly unfold, and the gravity of the situation — what is real, who is real, and how simple it is to skew perception in an age of social media communication — they shortly realize that there is much more story than was ever planned for.
This, however, is one of the small catching points for me. For as organic as many of the unraveling situations are supposed to be, a number of the pivotal scenes save some of the last involving Abby’s family, come off as if they’ve gone through multiple takes. The reactions, while still genuine, feel streamlined and polished. There are heavy revelations in this film — things that, if I were in Nev’s shoes, would probably involve some level of fury. Ariel himself states that Nev is a mercurial young man, particularly when a camera is rolling on him. I didn’t see much of that, which again — makes me wonder.
I really enjoyed watching this film and i now want to film some of my film in point of view shots . i love how the story of love unfolds and how sad it is to see the reality . I have reviewed and researched Catfish because it is a low budget film and has a huge impact on the audience .

Reseach for film

Here I have researched the new Red Riding Hood and Tim Burtons 'Alice in Wonderland’. I have chosen these films because I want my final project to be a dark fairy tale movie which collides with reality. I have carefully watched and evaluated what is successful and what isn't so successful in these films. In Red Riding Hood I though the story took to long to come across to the audience however Red Riding Hood" takes a darker stride as it pulls viewers in with its cinematography and focus's on colour (much like M. Night Shyamalan in "The Village) I thought this was very successful and I want to execute cinematography like this in my film.

Tim Burton movie 'Alice in Wonderland', the cinematography, computer animation, costumes, and general visual style of the film were awesome. This movie got nominated for a ton of technical Oscars, and it deserves to be there because you can really see what effort they put into the style, I want to try and recreate this but without the huge budget.