Keeping Active

As well as writing this blog, I am hard at work at University and also writing my own scripts. This blog is going to be about the latter. Who wants to know about my University work?

Saying that... I am currently filming a proper short film with my University friends. We decided today that it is a "genreless, avant-garde and experimental" short film that takes into account the two sense we take for granted, vision and hearing. I wrote the screenplay for the film, helped with some of the directing and also acting as the main man in the film alongside my talented director friend Pierre Landriau. We worked hard on this, and it should be on the internet next week.

I have also decided to use this blog to write down my current projects if anyone out there is interested. (Having seen fellow blogger Neil do the same. More about him in a bit)

Four Months
This is the film I am currently writing, about a London couple who are slowly falling out of love. It's controversial, brutal, and points out flaws in London society.

H.H.Holmes
This is a script that I have completed the first draft of for some time. It is in need of a re-write or three. It is set in the 19th century, and is a real-life story of a multi-murderer who built his own castle in wake of Chicago's first World's Fair.

Kupet: Everyday Life in a Supermarket
This is a mockumentary film which I have been meaning to write for about three years, since I started work in Tesco. I have a few friends who want me to carry on writing this one, which is nice.

Dreaming in Somnolence
Story of Ethan Kaufman, who decides to make something of his life for a good cause, and undertakes an experiment that two scientists have set up. Their aim is to make something that can read dreams. It's romance. It's mystery. It's comedy. It's plain weird.

Michael's Resignation / Salvation For April / Aidan's Darkest Sermon
These three films are three of the seven in Alex Cameron's many stories which I have had the pleasure of taking part of. They are brutal, cleverly written and hold back no punches. This brings me on to two other bloggers who I have to mention.

Alex Cameron is a talented story maker and script writer. His stories are as intruiging as the last one he throws up and I am grateful to be apart of his team of many writers.

One of his writers is previously mentioned Neil Baker. He has also set up a blog using this website and it's a great read. He is a very talented writer which similar dreams to mine so I hope to work with him a lot in the many years to come.

Their blogs can be found at these two sites.
www.azcameron.co.uk
www.writewithhonour.blogspot.com/

Ciao xx

The Death of Originality

Psycho. The Postman Always Rings Twice. The Omen. Sunset Boulevard. The Birds. The War of the Worlds. The Italian Job. [Rec]

As Bart Simpson once quoted, "Woah, woah, woah, let's not tamper with the classics."

If only Hollywood had took note of this and thought about what they were doing to the art of cinema. Recently I had seen a trailer for Quarantine, a film remake of Spanish horror film [Rec], which recieved praise and a couple of awards. Then Hollywood gets involved. Not only do they remake the film (and I have heard sources that it is shot for shot remake), but they have the guts and patheticness, for lack of a better word, to bring it out just a year later. Is that the sort of films we are meant to witness now? Shot for shot remakes made solely on the basis that nobody has any original ideas anymore, and all Hollywood want is money?

I plan never to get myself involved in a remake, even if it is of a poor film that could've done better, as I like to think film is art. Would you see someone try to remake a famous painting? No, because it does not need to be done. People want originality. And that is what is lacking in Hollywood right now.

It is sad to think people will more likely see remakes such as upcoming The Day The Earth Stood Still rather than films that are actually intellectual and stunning such as Baz Luhrmann's Australia. Next time you are going to see a remake of a film, think again, watch the original, then see a decent film that hasn't been made purely to make money.