What I've done recently

Through out the second year of my course, I have recently been learning about Documentary because we will be doing the module next year. Our lecturer said that we should do a head start.

By doing this, we've learned the history of documentary, of when it started etc. We've also been watching many documentaries, to see the different styles and how it's done. This has been really interesting to see the different formats and the subjects that were chosen.

We've also been going back to the Corporate Video module. This time, we had to choose a company to make a video for, ourselves. This I thought was very difficult because I didn't know what company to choose. I had help by suggesting to do a corporate video for the course. I agreed and chosen a video to promote the course.

For this, I have been going through paper work and preparing to film for it. I should be filming very soon.

I've also been going back to the Drama module. We have to make a short drama of our choice. So I've written the script on a drama idea. This time, I've written another horror (yippee!!!). I've asked a friend of mine if she wanted to have the part as the main character and asked her sister if she wanted to take the part as the character's sister. They both agreed and I have sent the script to her. I've given her a week to learn it and will be starting shooting next week.

The report for drama we have to do is to choose two films or TV shows to watch and write about what happened in pre production, production and post production. We also had to connect them through out our movie making experiences   I have been allowed to choose the film, The Shining (gives me an excuse to watch it again, cheers Dave!! :D) and I have watched with the audio commentary to help. I have also watched some of the special features on it aswell. No these I thought really helped because they were very informative and interesting. I have got a Stephen King movie guide to help me write about the pre production of the film.

I have to choose another film to watch. This I struggled with because when I have made films, more than one film has inspired me. To I was suggested to watch three films with audio commentary and choose the best one. I have picked the films, Shutter Island, Gothika and The Others. I love all three of these.

I found then that Gothika has audio commentary but the other two haven't. But the other two have the making of features. So what I'm going to do, is that I'm going to watch Gothika with the commentary and Shutter Island and The Others making of's. I'm going to see which one of them is the best to write about.

I will be catching up more with blogger, so excuse me for the delay.