Writing, Theatre, Poster Design, Films, Education and Attempted Wit
Carnival Row is a new fantasy series starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. Episodes viewed: S1xE05 "‘Grieve No More” & S1xE06 "Unaccompanied Fae” No spoilers. Episode 5 is an episode that deals with the revelations, and fall-out, from the previous episodes. While pursuing the stories of the main characters we see the introduction and rise … Continue reading CARNIVAL ROW – episode 5 and 6 review
Carnival Row is a new fantasy series starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. Episodes viewed: S1xE03 ‘Kingdoms of the Moon” & S1xE04 ‘The Joining of Unlike Things” No spoilers. Episode 3 performed the perfect switch – a flashback to Philo during the war seven years past. Narratively, I feel it was the right time to … Continue reading CARNIVAL ROW – episode 3 and 4 review
Carnival Row is a new fantasy series starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. Episodes viewed: S1 E01 ‘Some Dark God Wakes’ & S1 E02 ‘Aisling’ No spoilers. Amazon Prime has been producing some diverse series recently, including Bosch, Jack Ryan, Good Omens and The Boys. This time they give us Carnival Row, a mix of fantasy and Jack the Ripper-style police … Continue reading CARNIVAL ROW – episode 1 and 2 review
When you are learning how film works, the technical information you need to remember can be dizzying. Let master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock teach you the basic shot types, composition and "rules". This is a primer - there are many more terms and details, but use this as a starter guide! 1. EXTREME CLOSE UP (Psycho … Continue reading Let HITCHCOCK teach you shot, composition and rules
Have you ever wondered why the posters for movies are sometimes very different from the DVD covers? The answer is fairly simple, but it's a good talking point, especially when discussing the purpose of types of media with young students. I use examples from two films. Firstly: BRIMSTONE directed by Martin Koolhoven. The main poster … Continue reading Experience this movie. Buy this product. (Posters that you want to walk into – and DVD covers you can’t walk past)
Todd Phillips' JOKER opens in cinemas in October. Today, the final trailer arrived, accompanied with some very high quality posters. You don't listen do you? You just ask the same questions every week.How's your job? Are you having any negative thoughts?All I have are negative thoughts. This film looked fantastic from the beginning, with a … Continue reading JOKER
Bond fans know that there are certain things you expect from a 007 movies. Two of them are title songs by current music superstars, and the opening title sequence. Dr. No technically doesn't have a "theme song" as the Bond movie format hadn't yet evolved - but the rest of the Connery films have great … Continue reading Bond Opening Titles and Songs – The Connery Years
This production was a creative challenge from the outset. The club’s usual venue was closed for renovations, and the previous production had been mounted at a local primary school.
This time, the show was to be performed in a church – which makes sense due to the nature of the show – but that meant that traditional performing space was unavailable.
How to utilise the aisles, the choir stalls, and the pulpit? Sure, we could have restricted the show to the available floor space but that seemed too low key. The church was a great venue – how to use a place where people congregate in a new way?
For me, Godspell was a musical with a great concept and wonderful music, but I couldn’t get the images from the film out of my mind –…
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Just realised that 20 years ago TheatreFusion were getting ready to mount a production of my modern day adaptation of Julius Caesar (set in a contemporary U.S. Presidential campaign) at Cottiers, Glasgow. I also directed the production. 20 years! Despite some technical issues with the multimedia (clunking video players!) the adaptation was well-received, and was … Continue reading Caesar (1999)
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