Movie review

Are we awake or are we dreaming? Sometimes the distinction between reality and dream is a blurry line, which director Christopher Nolan play's on beautifully. Inception is a great movie incorporating everything we relate to in a dream onto the screen giving us a strong interaction with the movie as it is something all of us have experienced. With actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy and Marion Cotillard the movie was bound to be good from the start. There’s nothing more perplexing than the unknown and Nolan uses that to his advantage. It’s one thing to simply make up a story about a theoretical concept, but it’s another to come up with a scenario and actually make it feel real and that’s exactly what he achieves in Inception. With action from start to finish, stunning visual effects and impressive CGI Inception is a definite movie to watch that leaves you questioning what you just saw even after you've left the cinemas.

Dead-lines

Just handed in my literature review today, which i think i did alright on, the format which was apa was new to me and i still have to learn a bit more about it. All that's left now is to tidy up on our experimental video make sure my concept book is up to date and legible. I'm looking forward to our further projects and i'm also keen to find out how i do in the literature review.

As a filmmaker, James Nguyen is the worst of the worst , he has no business being behind a camera. His "romantic thriller" Birdemic is dimwitted and amateurish in all aspects, from the script to the cast to the direction to the dirt-cheap special effects and yet, people still find it hilariously entertaining. If Nguyen had been a better filmmaker or had had any training whatsoever, Birdemic likely would never have been picked up by a distributor. As it stands, Birdemic is an epic showcase of high school filming at the worst level. Within the first post-credits minute, the uselessness begins: abrupt cuts, awkward silence, stilted dialogue, actors who seem like the only English they know is what they memorized from the script. One scene features a different angle for almost every line of dialogue. Another sequence just shows Rod driving, getting gas, waiting in traffic, arriving at work and walking into his office. Inside, a follow-up scene features 75 seconds of applause (with looped audio). Later, one of the group's "adventures" is walking around yelling "Tony!" after a boy wanders off. They find him. He's fine. End scene. The CGI if you can call it that looks like GIFS copied and pasted off a website and incorporated into the film, with suicide birds who manage to blow up petrol stations in a single swoop. Overall the film is awful, if you can call it a film, but has been voted as the "best worst film ever" and is a must see to be believed.

Concepts camera

I'm Back

Well back at Aut again and the first 2 weeks have been fun. Different lecture room which is located in an isolated, desolate part of the university. New lectures with people who say "circus" instead of circle. All good fun.... We've been given our new assignments now, one which is a written paper and the other is to make an auxiliary piece of equipment to support 2 cameras that show unique and not frequently seen footage. We are into the third week now and have designed and built our equipment. It's a rig that has a glass carrying suction cup with a secondary handle and a small 1.6mm sheet metal box that houses the cameras. We test ran it today on the side of Yuta's car which was quite cool and the footage collected was quite unique and unexpectedly good, which i will upload as well. I will also upload some sketches of ideas and concepts i came up with before we came to this final result.