Monsters uni review

I finally watched monsters university and it is 1 of the best Pixar films that I've seen to date. I don't mean to sound like a hipster but I'm not really a big fan of toy story. Everyone I've asked, what's your favourite Pixar film, they've replied with toy story 3.

The animation is monsters university is the best I've seen. Theyve obviously used ques from brave. Even know brave didn't do that well in the box office it still advance the hair and fur the technology within the 3D world. The lighting and shaders were vastly improved. When sullivan was in the shadows his pink spots would appear dark blue or violet. So early had a lot more strands of hair this time. As technology has got better with quad cores and 16 quad god knows what computer specifications are running at pixar. By having a better cpu and gpu you are able to process a lot more frames and in better quality.

When the characters were walking across the grass, as they sat on the grass and steps away the grass re spring into shape revealing the illusion that they actually are stepping on the grass. I'm not sure if animated that by hand or that got a system that automatically does it for them and this is how far technology has come. For the original toy story the one human character  andy's mum and that's because human characters were too expensive to create an animate due to the simplistic design of the ties they were able to get my expressions out of it without losing the illusion that the toys were alive.

Monsters university was a prequel to monsters inc and it shows how make and sullivan's friendship came together. Everything that was said or shown was subtle hints for the previous pixar films and the sequel which is monsters inc.

I know I've mainly talked about the animation but that's what I'm passionate about.

Conjuring review

It's been a while since I've done a movie review I went watching kick ass 2 last week and it was awesome and I will be doing a review blog on the film.

Tonight I went watching the conjuring, first of all its directed by the same guy who directed insidious and saw. James wan.

James 1 has a very unique style and with his of films dead silence and sinister, you can really tell it directed by him. Such as the blurry tilt up slow motion shots.

The contouring is the latest film to come out of james 1 and craig something. It's basically the same format as sinister and dark skies, it follows the same establishing set up of the story we're it introduces you to a couple of characters that will have a bigger role later on in the film and then it introduces you to a family which will undoubtedly be killed or in the fear of being killed. It adds nothing much that we already expect from the film.

The special effects arent much different from dark skies through parts of the cell you got birds flying against the house and then hurting themselves and killing themselves. Somebody must have been sat at the desk 15 why don't we use the same animations that we had with dark skies.

Just like sinister everything was expected if you're familiar with the realtor you will not really enjoyed this film everything is in plain sight port there is one shot that is when the monster or ghost or the devil is sat on top of the wardrobe and it's looking down on the little girls.

With films just like sinister and that guys and insidious they all seem crazy on little girls and boys this is to appeal to the current of the audience and making children and teenagers feel weakness to wall pan even though this film is a 15 it will bring out the fear of children.

The was one shot kind of weird to me it's within the first 10 minutes of the cell and the little girl who is looking for her sister goes out to the garden and and looks and sounds for fun only to find her sitting on the tree works fine art music box with a mara in it that world when the music is playing and the clown bops up and down every few seconds. The way the transition from the little girl shouting her sister to the little girl sat on the tree is really weird.
The camera starts off from the front door and it slowly zooms in for 15 seconds and it's exaggerated to hell.

Over the years of watching scary movies such as final destination sore the ring and many many more I become desensitized from the normal horror films that you see today some films still get me going got over roll fuck the scale factor and the actual story of the cell I've got to get it 7 out of 10.

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Miranda (TV series) Review

This one isn't exactly a film review but i'm in switzerland with my family and i was made to watch miranda since there was nothing else to do.
I'm not really a big fan of the TV series because it's really stupid but you can't help but fall in love with the character. she just seems to fall over everything or make a complete idiot out of herself. There was another TV series with Miranda is called Not Going out, featuring Lee Mack and Tim Vine who are both very successful comedians and Miranda in Not going out, still plays the same character.

Miranda is constantly breaking the forth wall and she plays it of really well. if the other charcters during the scene don't take her on, she resorts to the camera in order to receive some sympathy.

I need to get in the habit of making blogs again. I've not had time with college and other courses on but now that college is finished. i can concentrate creating and making things what i want. i'll still be creating youtube series with technology rants etc and hopefully this summer i can actually create some videos with actual stories and characters.

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Inside man Review

Spike Lee is responsible for some for the greats ‘Inside man’ and ‘Malcolm X’ both critically acclaimed films, both Denzel Washington appeared as the lead role. Tony Scott the mind behind ‘Man on Fire’, ‘Unstoppable’ and the taking of Pelham 123’ which are also Denzel Washington films. Tony Scott and spike lee have similar and both have been an inspiration to each other and have influenced a lot of different styles.

Has a very clever introduction to the film, starting off with Clive Owen describing his basic back story and what he plans on doing.

Not many directors these days actually create an introduction to the film, sure there’s development of the characters through actions and dialogue.

Take Hitchcock’s Rear window for example, Jimmy Stewart’s character ‘Jeff’ his history of what happened to him and how he got the broken leg  are shown within the first 5 minutes. The camera pans over and tracks news papers, magazines, Negatives of photos and a picture of a car crashing and the tyre coming straight towards the camera man which gives you a brief outline of how jimmy Stewart’s got there. Directors have been ripping this off for years, Spike Lee is one of those directors that use subtle mannerisms that Hitchcock produced just 70 years before.

Inside Man’s Introduction starts with a van pulling up next the entrance of Coney Island with a man in white carrying a black bag against a white wall causing the bag to become more mysterious and the object in focus in that shot. Throughout the entire production, the van is driving other locations found in New York, The Charging Bull, and Brooklyn Bridge. Whilst the Van in driving along, the film shows footage of the Fictional Branch Manhattan trust bank.  With a collective of Clive Owen says and the van driving through Manhattan and Brooklyn picking up people on their way and the footage of the Manhattan trust bank, you can safely say that’s there’s going to be a bank heist during this film and Clive Owen’s character is the mastermind behind them.

With all the shots that you see during the introduction, it’s always iconic or memorable places or locations that you see within New York.

One of the most popular and the most iconic streets of not only New York but the entire world is Wall Street. It’s been exaggerated in the establishment that the film is going to take place in New York.

A Regular van pulling up to the paint with the words ‘Perfectly planned painters, We never leave until it’s done’. These paints are professionally finished whatever they have set out to accomplish and they’ve planned everything done to the bone. Throughout the movie, they’ve got everything figured out. From disabling all the camera with infrared bulbs to taking in a fake blood disperser therefore having something for the police and the detectives outside to watch.

Every second in every minute is essential when creating the perfect bank heist, they might have only been discovered and revealed themselves within the first minute of being in the bank. A masked man in a white (spandex) painting clothes was able to get up the stairs and set up his infrared torch and disable all the cameras without nobody suspecting a thing but it was the other workers started to secure the doors with a tie wrap that the security guard got a little bit suspicious.

They had everything planned. They didn’t want anyone making external phone calls, they striped everyone down to just their underwear and threw away their clothes and they add to put on black (spandex) painting clothes. If somebody didn’t give in their phone because for some reason they left it at home, the guys would look through everybody’s phone until they could ring that phone. If somebody were found of hiding their phone there would be severe consequences.

Later on during the film the Black (spandex) painting clothes played a bigger role as it would aid them for the escape. At first the criminals were wearing white painting clothes then they asked all the victims to take off their clothes and put on the black painting clothes and they forced to go in rooms with 15 to 20 in each room and they weren’t allowed to speak or make noise or else they’d be beaten up. The robbers changed out of their white painting clothes and into black painting clothes in order the police and the detectives not being able to identify anybody because there were no distinguishing features about anybody. They pushed everybody out of the bank using smoke spray grenades.

Throughout the film, the criminals are making sure that the ball is in their courtyard and they aren’t going to lose. Asking for crazy requests like having a  jet plane ready for them to escape and get away with the money and the hostages and asking them trick questions ‘Which weighs more: all the trains that pass through Grand Central Station in a year - or the trees cut down to print all U.S. currency in circulation? Here's a hint. It's a trick question.’

After all asking for the hostages and making ridiculous requests, all they were doing were buying time so they could create a hole for Clive Owen to do his business in and building a partition wall in front of the original wall so he could sleep and eat and wait for an appropriate amount of time so he could walk out of the bank without being stopped, get into the car and drive off.

Unknown. (2006). Inside Man. Available: http://www.imdb.co.uk/title/tt0454848/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu. Last accessed 8th Apr 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu9-UymSApM&safe=active 2:44 – inside man

Spike Lee is the person for popularising the ‘Double Dolly’ that’s when a camera and the subject are placing on the dolly with a person pushing or pulling the dolly making the subject/subject, floating or gliding.

The screenshot on the right is taken from inside man. Denzel Washington and his partners are watching a video from the bank and they see somebody getting shot in the bank so Denzel rushes out the police van and runs towards the bank doors. This is where the double dolly camera technique comes into play. In the film he’s suppose to be running but what’s actually happening on set is the camera being pulled and the subject being pulled at the same rate and same time.

Either the double dolly is being pulled by a member of the crew or it’s placed on tracks sliding across the rails.

I for one don’t actually like the double dolly shot, it makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable whilst watching the film. With a film like inside man a shot like this wasn’t expected.