Peer Assesment

After the entire filming editing and production of the documentary was completed.
We as a group had to sit down and agree on who got what mark out of 100 % depending on their responsibilities and their participation in the group assesment.

It was a rough journey deciding who got what mark as majority of us did the work but some of us were lacking that group participation, and those individuals found that doing their independant work was more important then this assignment.

Here is the footage shot on Atif's mobile of the discussion we had during the Peer Assesment marking.

Grim Reaper of Gedling (Documentary) COMPLETED!!

An interesting journey were i learnt a hell of a lot about new individuals and the talents they can bring to a progressing group.
For me i found that being able to work with certain people that will participate is good as you have a mutual understanding and are able to share your work load.
I have also experienced the more difficult side of individuals were i found it harder to work with them or get them to participate in tasks that brought the entire group down.
There are a few regarets I had during this production piece, one of them being not taking conrol over certain situations at an earlier stage.

I admit i can be a control freak at times but when you have a deadline to meet, you will go to extreme extents to make sure its met, wather that be upsetting someone then apologising once its done or just being down right ruthless and kicking someone out of a production group.

I understand that being part of a team is a big responsibility but when someone or some people dopnt pull their weight, making sure they are not credited for things they didnt do, ill make sure that this situation is reconised.

On the other hand i would like to Thank:
GARY
ATIF
HAROLD
SANDRINE
AND ABDUL
for putting up with me during these last few hard months and taking my shit.
All in all here is our finished documentary and i will post more of the pre production work, research, photo's and raw footage once i get hold of it.
once again THANKS YOU GUYS X

Grim Reaper of Gedling (Documentary) 1:2

As per Jool's critisim we decided as a group to re-shoot parts of the doc which we also found under-lit.
this was due to less natural light exposure as majority of the shoot was filmed indoor's int he evening.
The only part that was shoot during natural daylight was the introduction of Jim as he comes to the Club to perform.

Grim Reaper Of Gedling (Documentary)

As part of our fiction documentary we had to come up with a idea that would work that would attract the audience's attention and make them want to watch our doc.

We formed a group of 5 people making sure that each and everyone of us had 1 or 2 roles to play to make this documentary a success.

1. Gary- Director

2.Beena (me)- Producer

3.Sandrine- Camera woman

4.Harrold- Editor

5.Atif-Lighting/Sound

Here are a few picture's of the day's we went to shoot at the Gedling Bowling Club in Carlton Nottingham.






During the 1st 2 shoots we did the lighting was not always what we expected.
when we showed our first set of footage to Jools he wasn't as positive towards the footage as we thought he might be.
His advice was to re-shoot parts of the documentary that was un-lit as this would make a big difference to the entire dinal finish.

Hunger (film by steve McQueen)2008

The scene that struck me the most and made me feel connected to was the picture of the police officer sat alone thinking reminiscing about something that means alot to him or something that is important.

You can see the atmosphere around the charector is busy and you can imagine that it is very noisey.

But the scene only focus's upon the main charector to show you that he is able to block out the world and drift off into his own world as his problems are more then he can handle.

Movie Review: Hindi Welcome

A strait-laced man has his work cut out for him when he falls in love with a girl whose two brothers are gangsters. Akshay Kumar is the man caught in the middle in this Indian comedy directed by Anees Bazmee.

Gangsters have been tackled in several ways in Hindi cinema, ranging from rank incompetents to dreaded killers. In the 1990s they were often the pivot, epitomising 'bad' to emphasise the 'good' of the hero who vanquished them. In the 2000s though, films like Satya and Company have attempted to show them as gritty and realistic if still glamorous.

Having exhausted those avenues, gangsters have lately become objects of mirth, bumbling idiots who do more harm to themselves than to others. In Welcome, Anees Bazmee, who last made 2005's biggest grosser No Entry, picks up on the inept thug theme, making the thugs fun guys the audience can laugh with, not at.

That Bazmee's gangsters have a sister, the beauteous Sanjana (Kaif) whom no 'decent' guy wants to marry because of her family, makes them human and earns them sympathy. When auctioneer Rajiv (Kumar), unaware of her antecedents, falls in love with her, he has no idea what he is getting into - and when he finds out, he doesn't really care. But his uncle balks at Rajiv's choice of partner and refuses to give his consent until the brothers adopt a cleaner way of life.

All this is, of course easier said than done and Rajiv has to convince the brothers without actually letting them know what is going on. The double and triple cross that follows ensures there are numerous harebrained plots for Bazmee to keep the ball rolling. Though this provides its share of laughs, it is often infantile and so slapstick that the joys of some of the more subtle gags are lost under an avalanche of juvenility. Toilet humour abounds but a fair sprinkling of running jokes keeps the film moving.

One of the plot devices used is to convince one brother (Patekar) that he has been discovered as an actor and signed to act in a film. This gives the usually boisterous Nana a chance to indulge in some OTT histrionics and the director an opportunity to make digs at Bollywood stars, another much-used ploy in comedy films.

The other brother (Kapoor) meanwhile, discovers his sensitive side and is busy painting canvases and wooing Ishika (Malika Sherawat), who's also playing Nana's heroine in his fake film. Nana is in love with her too. To complicate the already convoluted plot, Ishika throws a spoke in the Rajiv-Sanjana engagement by turning up as Rajiv's jilted fiancé. This makes for some brainless comedy, not always a bad thing but overdone in this case.

The cast of Welcome seem to be having a blast but unfortunately that doesn't always translate into audience enjoyment. There are several points at which the narrative flags and no amount of twists and turns help it rise above the level of mediocrity.

Verdict: The only way to enjoy Welcome is to go with the flow and not think too much about what is happening while it is happening. Akshay Kumar, who has matured into a fine comic actor, ensures your attention stays on the screen as long as he is around.

Director:Anees Bazmee

Release Date: November 23rd 2007

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda

Animated comedy martial arts fable, with Jack Black voicing an overweight panda who becomes a warrior to protect the lands from a formidable foe.

In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda (Jack Black) dreams of being a martial arts warrior. The prologue to Kung Fu Panda is a beautifully animated, stylised 2D dream sequence about Po - "Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose legendary skills were the stuff of legend".
Only Black could get away with such lines. In reality though, Po is seemingly destined to take over the noodle business run by his father (Hong), who insists, "We are noodle folk. Broth runs through our veins." Po's only connection with the real martial artists is a fanboy's encyclopaedic knowledge of their moves and deeds.

Everything changes when the venerable tortoise master Oogway (Kim) selects Po, seemingly by accident, to be the "Dragon Warrior", a fabled martial artist who can protect the Valley from the dreaded return of the fearsome Tai Lung (McShane). Oogway's protégé at the Jade Palace, Shifu (Hoffman) and his five highly skilled students - Tigress (Jolie), Monkey (Chan), Mantis (Rogen), Viper (Liu), and Crane (Cross), aka "the Furious Five" - are understandably bewildered, nay miffed at this decision. They resolve to humiliate Po into giving up and leaving the Palace. Po knows full well he's useless, but he's always wanted to be more than just "me", so good-humouredly persists. Meanwhile, Tai Lung has broken out of prison. He believes it's his destiny to be the Dragon Warrior, despite Oogway's decision to the contrary, so he heads back to wreak destruction and claim the mystical "Dragon Scroll".

There's not much in the way of Shrek-style knowing humour here, beyond a fond affection for the kind of mystical mumbo jumbo to be found in many old martial arts movies. Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, the writers who get the story credit here, previously played around with this kind of comedy homage in Bulletproof Monk, but this film is better realised, picking up on elements of Stephen Chow's comedy martial arts movies (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle).

Its storyline of a nobody given the chance to fulfil his impossible dreams is as hoary as it comes, but the whole endeavour is realised with a highly likeable verve. The cast of characters are like the CGI descendents of The Jungle Book's anthropomorphised animals; they're distinctive, well-rounded and doubtless destined for ranges of much-loved toys and games.

Black lifts Po out of the realm of cliché, while Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane have a lot of fun bringing their characters to life - especially McShane, who is spot on as the aggrieved snow leopard who has some serious father issues. It's such fun, even the tackiness of the inevitable message about self-belief ("To make something special, you just have to believe that it's special") is made tolerable.

Verdict: Just what you need from a family film - Kung Fu Panda is visually striking, exciting, likeable and, most importantly, funny.

Director's:Directed by
Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Release date: 4th July 2008