Wednesday, 27 March 2013

My evaluation of HIDE

I have created a small website for my evaluation of my opening title sequence.
 Should tell you all about:

  • Audience and their attraction to the OTS.
  • How i've improved in making media products.
  • How the group im in have challenged and met forms and conventions.
  • How our OTS represents particular social groups.
  • What sort of media institution might distribute our OTS.


Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Assembly Video

Here's a video of me, Sam and James showing our OTS to a year 12 assembly. We were welcomed on to show and at the end got very good feed back from the question sheets we handed out. I was in charge of greeting everyone and standing at the front of the assembly, James was in charge of handing out question sheets even though unfortunately not everyone received a sheet. Sam had the job of filming the audience. Lights went out to add to the tension which is a positive although we used my camera which had a function of muting the sound while zooming, which i wasn't aware of until we filmed it all so unfortunately some of the sound was removed from the raw file. We roughly received 30 questionaries back.

Big focus group assembly from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.


Sunday, 24 February 2013

Focus group for improvement

Here's a link to James' post about our focus group. We had to show our video to the rest of the class to see how we were getting on and to see what we could improve on. I am proud of how well we're doing so far. It seemed like the rest of the class watching our video was a wake up call to them because many of the other groups have en-counted problems. From what we received back everyone enjoyed it, not everyone understood that Hyde and Jekyll where the same person and everyone preferred the credits with the lighter.

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Behind the scenes of shoot 2


Behind the scenes from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.

Behind the behind the scenes...

Today i was editing for our finial shots and the last of the scenes where Hyde is included. For editing I used a trail version of 'AVS Video Editor'. Along with the positives with this software there have been so many drawbacks. As ive mentioned in a past post the problem i mainly have with using IMovie is the long wait to even add any footage into the editing space and so for me it could take roughly 2 hours to edit 15 minutes of clips but with the AVS trail its been super quick and pretty easy. But the main issue is that im dreading the end result as they have warned me after editing it all that they're going to advertise their product with their logo in the center of the video. It hasn't yet finished publishing but soon as it has i may upload it straight to vimeo and then on to this blog. With this last day of filming we all managed to film behind the scenes and film for the actual OTS.

Friday, 15 February 2013

Focus Group planning.

Today i've sent an email to the head of our year for permission to let our OTS be shown to a year 12 and 13 assembly. Here's a screen shot of the already sent email all edited and reviewed by the whole production group to make sure the email is well written.

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Look from fresh eyes (Class Focus Group)

Here's a video showing the first time we ever shew our video to people who hadn't taken part in it.

Part one: Start of our OTS. Get a view of how complete we are so far.

Part two: Finished video and now about to show alternative credits.

Part three: Talks about what was enjoyed and what they would like us to change.

Feedback from Sam SheepDawg-OEight on Vimeo.

Monday, 11 February 2013

Our Focus group meeting.

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On the 8th of Feb we had a focus group meeting and the whole of our group attended to show the OTS to our class and give out a couple of sheets just so it could spark something that they'd like to talk about or ask. We overall got great results and amazing feed back. Together as a groups we all came up with the question sheet which is very brief and is essentially just a rough coating of questions. 


Video Post here.

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Facebook meeting.

imgres.jpgHere's a link to James' post about the facebook group i created for our production. I believed it would help organise things as many people all over the world use facebook and it is generally accepted in social life.
But as expected we need to censor some information as it was a private group so we didn't share any unwanted information out into the outside world.


Monday, 4 February 2013

Creating the credits


Credits from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.

Today i made, filmed and edited a credits scene for my groups opening title sequence. We cant use it because it does not follow the same resolution and therefore ruins our continuity so far. I just draw on paper with a black thick pen and reversed me throwing paper across the screen.

 So instead we used the lighter scene as credits, with well timed entrances of our names and the names of the stars. Here's the video of the credits we have final agreed to use.
Final credit used for 'HIDE' from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.

Saturday, 2 February 2013

Editing Issues

Over a multiple of occasions it has come apparent that there have been issues with editing, and that isn't a huge surprise as we are using shared servers with the rest of the school. Unfortunately some of the students in class have suffered to solve the problem but now we can edit faster then previously. But because of the problems me, James and Sam only saw it right that we spend a few lunch times to catch up on work that should be finished.



Foleying once again.

Here's a post from Sam showing what we created during our lunch times and a video.
We were attemting to recreate a sound similar to an actual gun shot sound using different bags (packets of air) and also slapping a ruler against a table. This was us using a marantz (photo shown) for the first time to get a high quality sound effect.

Video here.


Foleying "Recreating the Gunshot"

We filmed ourselves recreating the gunshot sound, it was just an experiment to see how well we could foley.

James' post here.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Filming of Yesterday




We began filming at Elm Hill but first met up in the castle mall which was arranged by mobile and facebook. Once we reached Elm Hill we encountered a few problems. For example vehicles coming through our filming and disturbing the sound quality. Plus we had many problems with scafolding and what seemed like road works. I got some behind the scenes and the fake blood looked like tomato sauce. Seemed like a beneficial night to our media studies course work.


Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Keyhole idea developed

In our story board we came up with an idea to have a keyhole shot so it would be at Alexis' room and then look through the keyhole and see Hyde on the otherside. We could create it as there was no keyhole for us to work with but James has developed the idea even with our problem.

Here's the post.

Music

Here's a link to James' post about him creating the music for our OTS.

Link here.

Monday, 28 January 2013

Editing behind the scenes.

Today I've uploaded the behind the scenes of our first recording day and its my first time editing on IMovie HD. I'm just getting to grips with editing so i can edit our final piece.

While trying to edit I've learnt some key presses to split the video clip. I've also had to censor a few points because some people may find it offensive if not, but I'm including it for humour at this point but its definitely up for change once the other members have seen it. One problem I've ran into is that trying to input video clips takes it's time and you have to be very patient. As you can see i have to wait a while but it doesn't seem like i have to wait all of the time indicated in this photo.

Friday, 25 January 2013

Results from survey

I created a survey to see how the students from my sixth form purchase they media whether it be online or in store and how they feel about the current state of HMV.

Here are the main things i've discovered with this survey:


  • The media most purchased is 'music' compared to films and games.
  • Most of the media is purchased online compared to instore.
  • Device most used to purchase the media is 'PC/Laptop' compared to the second place mobile which i would count on most probably being an apple device. Third is Tablet and one person didn't purchase media online.
  • About 2/3 of the people who completed the survey didn't care too much about HMV closing down.
  • People didn't visit HMV about once a month and the rest didn't visit very often. Someone has never visited their before 
  • Most people (more then 2/3) received 1-5 cd's or dvd's during 2012 christmas. Most expected they only got 1 or 2. We have the exception of two people received none.
The total surveys completed were 15.


Today on Photoshop.

I've been able to get my hide title screen accepted by the other member and been asked just to slightly change it so the backgrounds a little darker. I'll show you the original edit and then the new edit.








I still think i'll need to print off a survey about the title screen and see if our title is accepted compared to the standard noir title screens.
Possibly film the general public in the city of Norwich and get their ideas of our film in its unfinished state and ask them about their ideas and if it was a full film shown on the TV if they'd plan to see it and ask if they believe it's a opening title sequence or a trailer as thats a extremely important part of this project.


Monday, 21 January 2013

The BBFC?

It stands for the British Board of Film Classification.

Basically its a rating for what films are suitable for which age range.

For example the film E.T. is rated a 'U'.

And James Bond- Skyfall is a 12A.

You may wonder what does 'U' and '12A' mean?

Here's a list to tell you all the ratings and what they mean.

You can easily find this on the official BBFC website.


The age rating from the BBFC changes depending on the amount and type of graphical content. For example American Pie is rated a 15 because of the slight nudity involved during the film. But Sincity is rated 18 because of the nudity, gore, violence and drug references.   

Sunday, 20 January 2013

HIDE Title screen creation

Today I've created two different title screen.

This is the first one where i was asked to write the name hide in a scratchy way and take a photo then inverse the colours.

Here's the original photo.

















Afterwards I placed it in photoshop and now I've inversed the colours properly to the best of my ability.















We felt as a group that we didn't like the standard Noir style titles and since we are doing a homage of a gothic horror in a Noir style.

Here's a standard Noir styled titles.

 

I've also created this title completely off photoshop.

which i dont believe has as much of an effect as the previous one.

Art of Foleying




This is a video of a professional Foley artist called Gary Hecker.

Foleying is a simple process in which you recreate the sound effects of films. For example you can see Gary Hecker tapping objects repeatedly against sand to produce a similar sound you expect to see along with horse riding.



Friday, 11 January 2013

Filming Day

On the 2nd of January. Me, James, Sam and our actor (Joe) arrived at James' home.

Our main jobs of the evening:

James - Filming,
Sam - Lighting,
Matthew - Director and Behind the scenes.








start with was too bright so we had to move it further away, and with filming the Jekyll's letter scenes and Hyde's murder scenes we did not plan on making them different locations but if our shot does not show similarity we will include them in our opening title sequence.     We encountered many problems while filming and before. For example the lighting we used to
    I feel if we planned just a little longer we would not have encountered as many problems as we did.
    With the mugshot we used we found out that most of them printed abit too dark except Jackson's and Emily's as those shot we taken in a brightly lit room.
     Towards the end of shooting Sam's camera had ran out of charge and we had to use mine so there's a chance the resolution changes dramatically but we definitely do not have any behind the scenes at the end.

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     On that day we completed all of Jekyll's shots so far as far as we are aware and Hyde's indoor scenes. We just need to film Hyde's last shots as he walks towards the home of Alexis before the murder.



Friday, 4 January 2013

Photo-shopping a mugshot


Photoshop from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.

Here's a video of me editing one of the mugshots shown in our opening title sequence.
Enjoy.

Friday, 21 December 2012

Mugshots

Finally completed mug shots today as we have 5 now.

All i need to do now is resize black border and print off.





Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Movement on our opening title sequence

So far what we've completed:


  • Presentation.
  • Cast.
  • Mug shots.
  • Zippo lighter (prop).
  • Storyboard.
  • Rough edit of a script and needs a run though and editing.
  • Jobs list of what the members of our production are doing.
  • Research about Noir.
  • Production meeting.
  • Production logo and rough sketches.
  • Locations of filming. Tombland and James' house.
  • Noir character research and set cast characters.
  • Production name (State of Empire) and film name (Hide).
What needs completing:

  • The rest of the props like rotary dial phone, pistol and blood.
  • Filming at Tombland.
  • Filming at James' house.
  • Script and recorded script.
  • Editing.
  • Animatic.
  • Behind the scenes recording when filming.
  • Research of films that do roughly the same shots as we are taking.

Sunday, 25 November 2012

How does MisFits follow Noir?

MisFits

Misfits episode 4, series 4 is called "Zombie Noir" and it has many reasons to be called this.

Story

The anti-hero called Curtis gets involved with a girl called "Lola" who is reported to be a trainee probation worker and being violently beaten by another man who he murders, because she persuaded him to with out asking directly. Later Curtis uses his powers to bring him back to life (turning the murdered man into a zombie) and asks him about Lola and how he knows her. Unfortunately the man quickly turns to a zombie after being confronted and bites Curtis which you find out abit later on but the man is killed for a second time. Later he searches this girls flat and finds a CD of her acting as a girl called Lola in front of an audience when the storm hits. He finds out she gets trapped as this character when she got caught in the storm. He confronts her  and gets away from her before he attempts to bite her as he's a zombie. She then self harms then later blames Curtis for it in front of another man. Curtis is hunted down by this man where he aims for Curtis but he questions Lola in his mind for a split second when he gets shot by Lola who's pops from behind him and she shoots Curtis as well. He falls to the ground and when she inspects him he bites her and shoots her in the head then takes himself off a high base where he falls by taking a bullet to the brain from himself.


What values it follows from Noir?


  • Anti-Hero - Curtis with his unfortunate encounter with the zombie virus.
  • Femme Fatal - Lola who caused men to kill other men for her.
  • Smoke - Lola has a cigarette in her hand when she hears Curtis arrive.
  • Classy clothes - Lola not once looks at all underdresses except a scene in the bedroom.
  • Features in a City - It may not be a very busy place it still is definitely in a city. 
  • Death by pistol - Gun shots happen a few times but only by pistols.

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Neo Noir genre the SinCity way

SinCity   (2005) 

This film contains three different stories that all interlink one way or another.
Here's wiki page about the film.

The Hard Goodbye. (Part I)

Marv who looks like a giant ugly monster sleeps with a woman called Goldie who is found dead by Marv soon as he wakes up and he created his own quest to take revenge on who ever murdered Goldie.


The Big Fat Kill. (Part II)

Introduced to Shellie and her abusive ex-boyfriend Jackie and his little gang who forces his way into her flat but meet her new boyfriend who physically convinces him to leave her flat, but his mob are also chased down by her new boyfriend named Dwight and finds himself in a very awkward, violent  and awkward situation.

That Yellow Bastard. (Part III)

Hartigan is an old man who is currently suffering from a heart condition and is also a police officer who intercepts a child killer called Roark who is trying to rape a 11 year old girl called Nancy. Unfortunately John Hartigan gets framed for raping Nancy and is sent to prison but told he would receive a letter from her everyday but once the letters stop Hartigan goes out searching.



Values of Noir it follows.

-Black and white.
    Apart from blood ,some red clothing and a couple of eyes everything seems to be in black and white from start to finish.
-Dark lighting.
   Through out the film it seems to be night time with dark lighting.
-Smoking.
   Cigarettes or cigars seemed to be smoked by nearly every character. I believe a couple of times there are other things creating the smoke but it just adds to the suspense and suspicion of whats on the other side of that mist.
 -Guns.
  Alot of them are shown, from the pistol to the sub-machine guns.
-Based in a city rather then fields.
  It's based in a city called  Sin City.
-AntiHero.
  A hero with a fault be it anything but he's not perfect.
-Femme Fatal.
  A woman who has caught an interest in the antihero and vise versa but she has destruction and problems all around her.
-Girl next door.
  Woman who is innocent and completely opposite to the femme fatal  yet still has caught an interest in the AntiHero.
-Villain.
   Someone with evil intentions.
-Spontaneous love.
  Two characters maybe upset with each other and all of a sudden pull themselves together and start kissing or snogging.



Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Creative Application of Theory

-Preffered vs Oppositional
-Hedonist vs Traditionalist
-Passive vs Active
-Buckinghams Theories

Hansel and Gretel for horror/zombie lovers.

  - Hansel (Shia LaBeouf) and Gretel (Emma Watson) wonder onto a trail of blood after being abondened by society for a murder they never commited, find themselves in a small unpopulated village. They discover that the blood leads to an old hotel elevator shaft and while they're looking down the elevator shaft they happen to get pushed down towards a bottomless pit. That's when all of a sudden they are met with an army of undead in an old Elizabethan torture chamber.


Hansel and Gretel action version.

asteroid_1688856c.jpg - Hansel (Bruce Willis) and Gretel (Megan Fox). As the whole of planet earth undertakes a brutal beating from asteroids, Hansel and Gretel find a alien hidden inside one of the devastating rocks which sends both of Hanesl and Gretel into an invisible spaceship only a couple of miles above earth. Later they discover that the aliens were only trying to seek refuge from another evil race of creatures but the aliens accidently cause the orbit of rocks to collide with earth and are forced away by Hansel and Gretel.




car-crash.jpgHansel and Gretel for romantics.

 - Hansel (Jonah Hill) and Gretel (Mila Kunis) are just friends from the same college and are neighbours but best friends also. But when Gretels boyfriend gets caught in a tragic car accident and loses his life Hansel plans to make sure Gretels is mentally stable. After going through ups and downs they realize they are in love with each other.

Monday, 12 November 2012

Preliminary Task


We were set to "Film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom s/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate: match on action, shot/reverse and the 180 degree rule."

Summed up:

  • Film and edit.
  • Open door and talk to another person.
  • Exchange a couple of lines.
  • Use Match on Action, Shot/Reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
We must also plan:
  • Storyboard.
  • Script.



                                                                                   This picture explains the 180 degree rule. Where the characters have to stay on the same side relative to each other to help the audience understand movement off screen.

Here is a great example of shot reverse shot (youtube) and 180 degree rule.  

Technique to show character talking to each other.





Sunday, 14 October 2012

Opening Title Sequence of Film Noir.


Double Indemnity.


  • Based around (1950-1940).
  • All male cast.
  • Classy clothing and clean characters, main character wearing a suit.
  • Black people cleaning instead of white, showing that in them times people still believed white men and women were superior to black men and women.
  • General office workers looked down upon by wounded character to show he's in charge.
  • Wounded man showing signs of him being the strong silent type.
  • The man is driving a car which means high status. Especially since in them days cars were very expensive.
  • Alot of slang used to show gang potential.
  • Based in a big city, a good example would be New York City.
  • It's a rollover from silent movies.
  • The sound track is classical, so it's has a timeless sound track. An instrument for classical is piano.
  • Obsequious elevator attendant. Obsequious?
  • The male is a Juxtapostion of characteristics because he is scruffy and uses slang yet he has high status and is wealthy.

Form of an opening title sequence.

  • Studio
  • Producer
  • Title
  • Director
  • Cast
  • Production Team



James Bond Opening Title Sequence.

James Bond has many usual parts for the opening title sequence. Here's just i few i could find.


  • Usually starts off pulling the audience in with an enigma which could be with fighting, stunt or death scene.
  • There tends to be live action mixed with CGI/animation. 
  • Bond shoots you through an aperture by the looks of it and blood rolls down.
  • Guns shown - Works as an icon for action.
  • Author Ian Fleming, cast and studio in titles.
  • Sexy woman dancing and men in suits, the suits tend to be tuxedos which are typically worn to proms.
  • Song written specifically written for the movie- performed by a iconic singer and is usually a woman singer.
  • May sound strange but its rather a long opening title sequence compared to other but that because its a spy thriller movie.
  • Villains are usually non-British in a foreign country. 

Monday, 1 October 2012

Audience

An audience is a group of people experience an event.

Types:
Active - Preferred - Targeted audience/ those the product is aimed at. (From an industry point of view)
Passive -Oppositional - Not the expected audience

Distribution - Method of showing films - Streamed/Cinema/DVD/TV broadcast.

Exhibition - Method of watching from industry recieved audience:
  • Buy DVD
  • Rent DVD
  • Blu Ray
  • Illeagle Streaming/Downloading
  • Legal Streaming/Downloading
  • TV FreeView
  • TV Cable
  • TV Satellite
  • Pay-to-View
  • Cinema
My top ways of experiancing the media:
  • Viewing movies from Cable TV with my girlfriend, friends or alone. Roughly for about 6-8 hours a week.
  • Paid for DVD's is not my prefered method of viewing movies but i see about 3 moviesa month.
  • I enjoy going to the cinema but i usually do it with my girlfriend or my father and see about 1 movie a month.

Pete Buckinggam suggests that 49% of our population are upmarket (ABC1's) but they make up to 66% of the general cinema audience, but that means the the other 33% are low earners so it suggests that the lowmarket view movies by illeagle streaming/downloading or from their television.




Streaming/Rental - Modern technology = cheap/easy/immediate access.













Sunday, 23 September 2012

Understanding Genre

My definition of Genre is style. For example style of movies: thriller, action, comedy and romance.
style of music: rock, classical and indie.

Google's definition of "Genre". 


  • A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.


Thriller.

This is a genre which have main elements of suspense or excitement. This makes the view have ideas of uncertainty. But main genres have sub-genres and thriller has many, here's a few examples: 

  • Physiological thriller.
  • Period thriller.
  • Mystery thriller.
  • Crime thriller.
  • Paranoid thriller.
Iconography (symbols or images)  of a thriller:
  • Shadows.
  •  Confined spaces.
  • Dim street lamps.
Narrative:
  • A death (Suicide, pre-determined, accidental).
  • Some being watched/followed.
Mise-en-scene:
  • Lighting would be mainly dark but bright on points of interest.
  • Colours mainly black and grey's.
  • Clothing would depend on time and location. Usually dark alleys and strange and large buildings.
  • Facial expressions typically scared with the victim and the villain would show a black expression.
  • Camera angles and technique. Camera angles could be in a view of a security camera, and tracking could be used with shaking behind victim is running away from villain.
Themes of a thriller:
  • Revenge.
  • Isolation from the outside world.
  • Slight chance of sexual perversion.
Representations portrayed in movies such as thrillers:
  • Sexism (Girl have to be fragile and men have to be heroic).

Friday, 21 September 2012

The Dark Knight OTS Story Board


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The primary purpose of a storyboard is to know what you are planning before you take your shots.
It's easy to fault at continuity without a story board e.g first shot someones shirt is buttoned up, next shot back they're shirt is unbuttoned.
The storyboard is also a great function so you and everyone else around you knows what you are talking about with a small box of hand sketched image and small notes at the bottom incase of confusion.

Sunday, 9 September 2012

My 10 ten films overview.

1 - Zombie Land
2 - The Green Mile
3 - The Dark Knight
4 - Super Bad
5 - 21 Jump Street
6 - The Dark Knight Rises
7 - Pick Of Destiny
8 - American Pie
9 - Inbetweeners Movie
10 - Fight Club

What i've learnt about my film selections.


  • 7/10 films I've picked include some sort of comedic value to them. Which shows i enjoy  a laugh in my film and nothing too serious. 
  • My top film ''zombie land''contains one of my favourite aspects of media..zombies. Plus the fact i have 5/10 films that contain extreme violence or some sort of violence i can recall. So violence is also something i enjoy in a film
  • Batman is featured twice and i think i'm just a follower of the super hero ninja called Batman.

Saturday, 8 September 2012

Number 1. Zombie Land

Zombie Land - 1.

As Earth has all the tragedies and scares like nuclear war, flooding and a new ice age; it gets attacked by zombies in a hilarious comedy.

As new strain of 'Mad Cow Disease' is released into the public, poor old lonely Jessie Eisenburg plans to track down his parents back in Ohio but encounters "Tallahassee" (Woody Harrelson) who is on his search for twinkies. The group becomes larger and they even discover Bill Murrays mansion in Hollywood.

I can't tell you how much I love this movie. I love zombies and comedy and it's a great mix together. But only lasts 88 minutes. Trailer here (requires Youtube access).

Number 2. The Green Mile

The Green mile - 2.

Based on a book this is the first truly moving and slightly unsettling movie I've blogged about in my top ten movies of all time. 

As Paul (played by Tom Hanks) is an officer at a cell block named "Green mile". He encounters many different types of people while working but he finally meets one he'll never forget. 
John Coffey is portrayed as a huge masculine black African American at the start but you slowly learn the story of his upsetting life.


Watch trailer here (requires Youtube access).


Number 3. The Dark Knight

The Dark knight - 3.

Second Batman movie listed down because nothing beats a superhero with no actually super powers except wealth. 

Staring Christian Bale the actor for Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Heath Ledger the actor for the nicknamed "Joker". 

This film has everything in it including suspense, action and slight comedy. As the Joker plans on making a bank robbery with a bunch of clowns as they all betray each other so they get a high ratio of the money, which is owned by the Mafia. But this only leads on to the mob bosses having to inform the rest of the mob that the rest of their funding has been hidden in a secret location so no further robbery's can occur. But this while being informed of this by a Chinese accountant the Joker storms through and offers to kill Batman for half of their money which he is in possession of anyway.

The rest of the movie is challenging to understand to say the least, but worth a watch even though it's a long movie (152 Minutes). 

See trailer here (Requires access to Youtube).

Number 4. Super Bad

Super Bad - 4.

Once again Jonah Hill (playing Seth) and the new one Micheal Cera (playing Evan) star in an amazingly funny film. Based on the lives of the writers themselves.

As Seth and Evan both apply to Dartmouth university only Evan is accepted. But between them there were no worries about them missing each other around. But when Seth gets paired up with Jules (played by Emma Stone) she invites him to a party happening later that night where both Seth and Evan will be attending with a extra called Fogell (played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Fogell obtains a fake ID with a famous name McLovin which means they can now abuse this fake ID to get their hands on alcohol later on for the party to raise their "respect".

On this list this is the fist time i can say i own this on DVD myself. But truly is a great film filled with great laughs.

Watch the trailer now (requires Youtube access).



Friday, 7 September 2012

Number 5. 21 Jump Street


21 Jump Street - 5.

Based on a 1987 television series, 21 Jump Street is an action, comedy thriller film in my eyes.

Morton Schmidt who is described as a "not so slim shady" (Which is a great description of the actor Jonah Hill with blonde short hair) is bullied through out high school by his now, new best friend Greg Jenko (Played by Channing Tatum) in a police training center.

Then paired up after failing to read out a criminals Miranda Rights, now in a high school drug bust operation.

Anyone who enjoys movies or comedy's should watch this no matter what. 

Number 6. The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises - 6.


As Batman (in my eyes the greatest ever superhero created) has to once again save Gotham city from the evil Bane with half his face covered by some medical advancement. You get to once again see Batman rise, fall, and rise once again just like in every other Batman movie but feel the suspense and thrill. If you haven't watched the past films in the trilogy you may struggle to understand but still worth watching. 


Number 7. Pick Of Destiny

Pick Of Destiny - 7.

As young JB (Jack Black) become a rocker and is abandoned by his religious family from Missouri,  Kickapoo. He seeks fame and fortune and a companion who teaches him to rock even harder then before. Then searches for the most mystical and majestic pick in the history and man and devil.

As a fan of Jack Black and his band Tenacious D i find this great film with funny and pretty good songs through out the film with comedy and upsets. It's a great film unless your not into your comedy's.

In my eyes it's a very good seven

Number 8. American Pie

American Pie - 8.

Teen Comedy American Pie was created in 1999 and written by Adam Herz.

I find sexual immaturity amazingly hilarious and so i can understand why American Pie is such a great movie in my eyes.

As an Eastern European girl is stripping on webcam for a not so popular guy in school he is peer pressured in showing her to the world doing her strip by the famous character in my eyes "Stifler". This film is a must watch as you see a pact made between a group of friends all attempt to lose the virginity before they graduate. 

Hilarious in my eyes but can understand why some people may not agree.

Number 9. Inbetweeners Movie

Inbetweeners Movie - 9.

The amazing series of the Inbetweeners had finally got a movie.
As a fan of the British series "The Inbetweeners" i was excited to see this film because, the last series has been finished with out any hope for a next. 

The Inbetweeners was a comical British series about four teenage boys in sixth-form trying to get high in the popularity ranks, but only with failure around the corner. 

We got to see Jay, Simon, Neil and Will go on holiday to a less than respectable hotel in Marlia. 
With Neil's simplicity, Jays immaturity, Will's maturity and Simon's love losses they have a great trip to Marlia, where obviously Simon's not so ex-girlfriend is also staying. 
We have the same four hilarious guys who were doing A-levels back together again, all with their own problems...except Neil.


Pretty funny but for me it's hard to recall any moments where i look back and still laugh.
So i think number nine is pretty respectable.

Number 10. Fight Club

Fight Club - 10. (1999)

Even though fight club is a great movie and should be watched by everybody, i'd only put it at number 10. Even though it has a great plot and a weird messed up story line, i found it hard to put it any higher. The film was directed by David Finch but was originally a novel by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. Fight Club failed to meet expectations of the studio at the box office but was cited as one of the most controversial films of 1999, later Fight Club found success in the DVD release and was stated as a cult film. 

As Brad Pitt meets Edward Norton. They form 'Fight Club'. A club where guys intend on beating the living day lights out of each other while placing bets on who's going to win.

I'm sure everybody's familiar with the quote "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club" and for that alone it goes in my top ten at number 10.