Friday, 10 June 2011
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 .
Thursday, 9 June 2011
The Deal - edited
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.
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 .
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