This was challenging for me in a very different way to other challenges that I have faced. In this one I had to be a story teller / writer as well as photographer / film-maker and for a long time my mind blank to creating a satisfactory short-story. Only when I had the time to … More Reflection for Assignment 3
Death on the Nile. Following up on my Tutor’s recommendation to watch movies that are very familiar to me to analyze their editing sound and image, the first motion-picture I chose to watch is my wife’s favorite, ‘Death on the Nile’, I have seen many times. Made in 1978, starring Peter Ustinov and Director of … More Death on the Nile
I picked up a DVD from Tesco for a £5, the original 1932 Scarface starring Paul Muni, George Raft and Borris Karloff, directed by Howard Hawks. Widely considered to be one of the great Gangster movies and a film that influenced all future gangster movies. There is a very interesting montage scene that suggests a … More Scarface 1932 Directed by Howard Hawks
My Tutor suggested I watch this video by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. (This is only a 6 minute extract.) I liked this very much, the idea of linking a video with a mobile-phone device and time of past and present in a specific location then filming the handheld mobile phone video within the … More Alter Bahnhoff
On Saturday evening my wife and I went to see the movie ‘La La Land’ at The Korda Theater at Shepperton Studios (Pinewood Studios Group), it was my first visit to this theater, but a visit that I had been wanting to do the moment I learned that it was open to the public at … More A visit to Korda Theater and La La Land
