Warrior...

Warrior is a 2011 American sports drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor and starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, and Nick Nolte. Warrior tells the story of two estranged brothers entering a mixed martial arts tournament, and deals with the brothers' struggling relationship with each other and with their father. The film was released on September 9, 2011 to overall positive reviews, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Nolte. Warrior is dedicated to the memory of Charles Lewis Jr., as seen just before the ending credits.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Anglo-French espionage film directed by Tomas Alfredson, from a screenplay written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan based on the 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré. The film stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, and co-stars Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ciarán Hinds. Set in London in the early 1970s, the story follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service.

Johnny English Reborn...

This is the sequel to the widely popular film Johnny English (Peter Howit, 2003) starring Rowan Atkinson. The opening sequence is a sort of montage from a MI7 Classified folder. On the side of the folder is written 'Johnny English" with the words SIR crossed out in a red pen. the camera moves about alot- all most as if it is being shot with an eye-line match. The audience can only see the hands and lips of the two characters, they seem of high importance as they are both wearing a suite and they remain anonymous with the use of shallow depth of field, through out the opening sequence. There are pictures of Rowan Atkinson's character Johnny English, there are also newspaper clippings, some saying "MI7 Securtiy Balls Up" and "Doh-Zambique! MI7 Disaster in Africa". The scene changes to a bunch of Tibetan monks training. This is where we first see Johnny English, this is very comical as the audience immediatey know that he is not somewhere he belongs. There are many comical moments during the scene but it ends when he is sent back to London for a mission.

Anuvahood Opening Sequence...

This is a comedy movie starring Adam Deacon (Kidulthood & Adulthood). The movie starts with a grime instrumental in the background and alot of close up of youths face while they are smoking. They are talking about some incident that happened a few days ago and there are hints in the movie that is or was fight. As the music increases the the tension between the 3 character build up and they suddenly walk away in a hurry to do something, presumabely to go and attack the boy they were talking about. The camera pans with there movement and it parralel edits with Leathal Bizzle (a popular grime/funky artist in the UK, who does a cameo in this movie) and with Adam Deacon's character Kenneth. There seems to be a sort of confrontation where Kenneth gets punched to the ground and all the other boys start laughing. The brightness all of a sudden gets brighter and the camera pans up to show the entrance of a Sainsbury supermarket.

Success in Progress

On Sunday 4th February, we started our filming. We filmed our scene in the grave yard. This is was originally our first scene but we then decided to start with a panning shot of central london, we are still yet to go to central london and do thye shot. I suggested we filmed while the sun is setting and then during our editiing stage we fast forward it to give a sort of melancholy feel to it.
We did face a few problem while we were filming, first of all we could not find the black rose that we needed, so we had to settle for a red rose-type flower. The second of all is that it was extremely cold!!
However, we soldiered on filmed the rest of the graveyard scene that we required.
Overall, everything went well and by the use of varied camera techniques, when we edit it all together, hopefully, it would ube great.

Top Gun Opening Sequence

I watched the whole movie of 'Top Gun', and this easily became my favourite movie of all time within the first 20 minutes. The opening sequence starts with a ground level camera on a battleship, it shows a lot flight aviators guiding fighter jets being launched of the battleship. The scene is all in silhouette and the lighting is as if it is shot in the morning or sun setting, the air is all red-orange-ish. The non-diegetic very fits the scene and creates an uplifting melancholy feeling, it sounds almost patriotic. The diegetic sound is of voice on the radio and sounds of fighter jets landing and taking off, especially the sound of engines as the jets fly past.

The music suddenly uplifts to a quicker tempo and very heroic, the camera then follows the back of a fighter jet and then cuts the cock-pit of inside of the 2 fighter jets on there routine flights.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey. The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist (a director) wants to direct a film about the Great Depression called O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The American folk music soundtrack won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2001.