Author: gravitystix

Yeah… okay, I’m stooping to a new low. Which I didn’t think was possible. I’m reviewing another parody movie- Robin Hood: Men In Tights. However, I’m reluctant to admit that this movie is actually an amusing one. Robin Hood gets arrested at the beginning, and is taken to an Arab jail somewhere in the Middle east. He escapes with another guy (whose name is Asneese, he has a son called Achoo [sneeze jokes abound]), and then swims to England. The humor in this movie is really consistent, with no exceptionally funny parts. It stays even throughout the entire thing, which isn’t a bad thing.
There’s nothing exceptional or groundbreaking about the acting or filming, and the story itself is definitely over-done (It’s Robin Hood), but the memorable characters and witty dialogue ensure that you’ll remember this for a good long time. Plus, it has the best usage of a chorus line I’ve ever seen.

In essence, made me laugh, kept the laughs steady, nothing ground-breaking. 4 out of 5.

With VIDEO TWITTER! That’s right, folks, apparently you can now take your idiotic, worthless opinions on everything in existence, and put it into video form! 12Seconds, Twitvid, Vidly, Twiddeo, BubbleTweet… all sort of crazy and stupid ways to spread your mindless drivel around the world. Now, granted, some of you have something useful and important and interesting to say… but you’re not going to be able to say it here. Because these are limited to around 12-15 seconds of video, similar to Twitter’s character limit. This means that nothing important is ever going to be said EVER with these sites. If you’ve got something useful to say… then BLOG it!!!

I have had the distinct pleasure to watch… District 9 on Tuesday. From the action packed scenes, to the underlying causes and overbearing feeling of everything being “messed up”. A movie based around the landing of an alien race on our planet in Johannesburg, Africa. The prawns mother ship has been disabled leading to the stranding of around 2 millions of these aliens, mixing with civilians, tribal gang leaders and the alien/area police.

This is were Wikus comes into play, a great actor in front of the green screen. He is found in one of his first movies and he had the talent to make me literally angry at him through the movies, as at first he wimped out and than began to only care for self-preservation. A serious and self-inflicted mistake lead to a total character transformation seen solemly to those of great acting skills.

Between Wikus, squad military leaders and the commanders of MNU, as well as the local gang leaders, the acting was top notch, considering that almost half of this movie was presented with graphic design and geen screening. Not to mention the concept of the characters and the zeal they present is top notch.

Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp ded a fantastic job presenting this story, the writing and directing of these two provided not only myself, but millions enjoyment and excitment in many ways. From cross species jokes to action and a mix of emotions, it has just the right mix.

In conclusion, this is a must see hands down. Although one would say the acting is somewhat low, imagine actually doing it all in front of the green screen, acting emotionally and physically to objects and aliens that arn’t even present! 5/5 In my books and if you have an X-Box, it is currently found on Netflix, through X-Box so go ahead and watch it, bag of popcorn suggested though…

The idea of planning just seems wrong in the shoes of a teenager, but as we begin to learn and expand upon not only our lives, but our video making abilities, planning is crucial to success. In “The Perfect Plan: Storyboard and Shot List Creation“It does not give us new knowledge per say, but reinforces what we know. From writing a script that is exciting, riveting and leads to character names and scenes that are neither generic or repetitive.

The major idea brought up, is the use of image with writing to allow for a more precisely found image and to create a final product more closely related to the visions of the creator. Neither sketching, nor writing is enough, color is also just as important. The writing brings an idea to life, sketching allows for the vision to be brought into a visible form, but color knocks it out of the park. With color and sketch, scripts can be taken to a whole other level since it allows for better understanding when looking for actors and shot locations.

In conclusion, one will expand and increase their proficiency while making movies or videos if the plan out their scripts, write and edit it, but also adding colored sketches allows for everything to fall quickly into place. From knowing what camera angles to take, what shots to do together and where to shoot increases the speed at which you can produce your film more accurately to the creators first vision. Lastly Julia Camenisch (the author of this article) restates the old saying that practise makes perfect and by heading these ideas, you can become a better film maker!

This week I am going to review “A Clockwork Orange” based on the book of the same name and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The movie stars Malcolm McDowell, as Alex, who also narrators the story, which adds great commentary throughout the movie.
The movie starts off with Alex and his 3 Droogs, Russian for friends, beating up a homeless man and fighting a small gang who are attempting to have a “good” time with a woman. The 4 of them travel out into the country and manage to convince a man to let them in his house and they have a “good” time with his wife. They end up in the Korova Milk Bar, where milk is served with drugs, where Alex hears a woman singing Beethoven. Dim, one of the Droogs, interupts her and Alex hits Dim for doing that.
The next part is the night after, Dim and Georgie tried to create a “new way” but failed, so they go to a woman house for a “good” time. While there Alex and the woman fight and Alex kills her. Before leaving Alex gets hit by his droogs with a milk bottle, temporally blinding him causing him to get caught by to police.
Alex is sentenced to jail for 14 years, 2 years into it Alex is a model prisoner and in turn is selected for an experimental treatment that will cure him of all of his violent tendencies for good. He does the treatment where the doctors show videos of extreme violence while he has a drug injected into him that makes him sick. During the treatment the doctors play Beethoven causing him to have the same feeling as he now does with violence.
Alex is now released and his parents have rented out his room to a man that believes he is a better soon than Alex ever was, now making him homeless. While walking in the city he is about to get beaten up by the homeless man he initially beat up, but is saved by the police, his old droogs Dim and Georgie. The two of them bring him out into the country and beat him nearly to death. I am not going to ruin the ending so I am going to leave you with that.
In the end this is a great movie and a must see. You will love it and it is for sure a classic. So I say watch it!
-5 out of 5 on the bigberry scale

I watched The Blind Side last night, and almost cried. Such a good movie. It follows the life of “Big Mike,” a black guy from the other side of the tracks who lands a spot in an all-white Christian school because of his athletic ability. Mike owns two t-shirts, and waits in laundromats for a chance to throw them in someone else’s wash. When Leigh Anne Tuohy sees him walking down the road one night in the pouring rain, she can’t just drive by. The Tuohys take Mike in for the night, and he quickly becomes a part of the family. 

We are still working on the doc, and are finishing some minor things like b-roll in interviews. I’m ready to start putting this project to bed, and move on to something new. Anna and I have barely had time to talk about our Beatles music video, because our time is fully committed to the doc. Anna is doing Shaw’s interview right now, and we will hopefully put it in the doc today.