"All Work and No Play Make Kelly a Dull Boy!"
The Shining, a horror movie, a masterpiece, or a bunch of little lines going in a bunch of different directions. Before I even came to this class I thought it was an absolute masterpiece, the music mixed with the big open spaces and the long, never ending hallways. Kubrick is a brilliant filmmaking, or was (He is now dead), and no one else can match his work, since some person in Hollywood decided they should remake the movie, and they totally slaughtered it, but that’s what happens with movies that are masterpieces. Since Hollywood can't think of anything original anymore, they are going to comic books, the remaking of old movies, and the buying of popular indie films. But back to The Shining, an awesome horror movie, with only a few bloody parts and a few shocking ones, but other than that, it’s a pretty conservative horror movie. If you can take a Stephen King book and make it into a good movie, then you have successfully passed the test. After Kubrick died, King went back and made his own version of The Shining, and it bombed, obviously.
Our movie is going along quite well, as of now, we have all of it shot and all of it edited, so all we need to do is add sound effects and music. But let me tell you, it is all hanging on the music, the SFX and video aren't all that great, so if the music is awesome, maybe that will redeem our film. Sound effects guys that made the sound effects for the whole movie (mostly) that is talent, I know I wouldn't be able to make sounds like that come out of my mouth. I wonder if they go around and have live concerts of them doing what they do best. We came up with the name "Before Crises Films" and "a KNAAR production" for the first initial of everyone in our group, so much fun.
Want to see a film with some great cinematography, The New World, Collin Farrel and Christian Bale, a great movie. Compared to other movies, this one barely has any dialogue present; it is all visuals, no sound effects and no camera cranes or dollies. The cinematographer and director had a set of rulers that the crew had to abide by; *
*1) No artificial lights. All is shot in natural light.
* 2) No crane or dolly shots, just handheld or Steadicam shots.
* 3) Everything is shot in the subjective view.
* 4) All shots must be 'deep-focus shots', that is everything (foreground and background) is visible and focused.
* 5) You (the camera crew) are encouraged to go and shoot unexpected things that might happen in accident or if your instinct tells you so.
* 6) Selective shots: any shot that does not have visual strength is not used.
I thought that was pretty cool.
Other good movies that are out on DVD; United 93 and Goal: The Dream Begins.