26th October
We started off our day by watching a film at the Ultimate Picture Palace. The film we saw was 'The World's End' by Simon Pegg, which is a comedy film. I enjoyed it and found it very funny, and laughed a lot, but I thought the ending wasn't particularly good.
We then returned to Film Oxford to have 2 lectures, one on critiquing skills and one on British cinema. Critiquing sounds fairly difficult, especially as I tend to just passively watch films and not really engage in them. However, hopefully from now on I will become better at engaging in films instead of just absorbing them.
The lecture on British cinema was very interesting, as I had never really thought about British cinema or what it was. It was fascinating to learn about the ways that British cinema was different to cinema in Europe and America, and to see what the criteria was for a film to be considered British.
We then split off into our production groups to continue developing our film ideas. We decided to go with a story about a homeless man who notices that a rich man looks like him and steals his identity. We put the film into a 3-act structure that we learnt about on Day 2 with Michelle, figuring out how it would work as we went through the story. We then began thinking about locations to film, and about maybe getting other people in to act or be body doubles (since we have one person playing both characters).
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