Love and War

These documetary videos are one of my least favourite projects that I have worked on. The process of making them is great but personally I don't find the content very interesting. The images above are taken from a video production project called 'All is fair in love and war'. The story is a little slow at the beginning but if you actually watch the video the whole way through it actually has a great little love story. The other is a 3 minute wonder type video about the mis-interpretation and sterotypes attached to people who are in a big band opposed to a rock band. The videos have been uploaded to YouTube so the quality isn't great but they are watchable!

KKhurana

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All is fair in love and war
3 minute wonder: Big band

X-men ♥

The film I can't wait to see this summer is X-men First Class.

Let me first say if you haven't watched the X-men movies I recommend you do. I first watched X-men at school in year 7 or 8. Other than the old superman/superwomen & Batman films and TV shows it was my first real taste of the Superhero genre. The films instantly appealed to me and I even went out and spent my pocket money in HMV buying the VHS (How old does that sound...but its true). I have since purchased the DVDs but I still have my old VHS copies too. X-men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine, I have watched them all and they are all as good as each other. Personally I find with superhero movies the first film is always my favourite as I like to see how the characters develop from when they first meet and their life before they find out about their superpowers. Having said this I still recommend all four.

The new trailer for the new X-Men: First Class film has just been released and it does look good. The main idea of the film is to explore the history being Magneto and Professor X's friendship and how they discover their powers for the first time. I am not sure about James McAvoy playing a young Professor X but we will just have to wait and see. Also no Wolverine...X-men without Wolverine...can it be done?

I have I have watch nearly all the superhero inspired movies out there including Superman, Batman, Spiderman, The Hulk (Crap) etc. but X-men has always been and stayed my favourite. I hope this one lives up to the hype. So far the trailer looks good so I can't wait till June 3rd 2011 when it is released.

KKhurana

Animation: Romeo and Juliet

These pictures are from my first video production project at university. We were asked to produce a short video about any topic/theme we wanted. I think it was also designed by the lectures as a bonding experience as it was our first chance to meet all our fellow Film, media and entertainment technology students.

The unit really helped us to develop our camera, editing and production planning skills. The whole project had a much more professional and sophisticated feel to other video production work I had done before. We were required to complete pre-production paperwork such as a full script, storyboards, camera logs, location checklists, release forms etc.

We used a Sony DCR-TRV 950E camera to film and the whole video took about two days in total to film as finding stairs in our university building that people weren't constantly walking up and down was a difficult task. We has a few actors (AKA: people passing by our shoot) to talk a little at the beginning of the video but the video mainly concentrated on the love story of blu-tac/play-dough characters Romeo and Juliet. (As show in the pictures below)

I volunteered to make the little blu-tac / Play-dough people although I did regret it afterwards. They were not as easy as they look to make. The light blue figure stuck together well but the play-dough characters constantly fell apart. We even attempted dying some blu-tac so that we could get pink blu-tac but the colour didn't come out very well. It all worked out in the end and we used the blu-tac figure to play Romeo and the pink play-dough figure to play Juliet.

We got a first for the whole project. We were really pleased as doing stop motion animation was a big risk, especially as none of us had ever done any animation work prior to this project but luckily it turned out great and we definitely had the most unique and original idea in my opinion. Unfortunately I have lost the disk with the final outcome on which is really annoying as I really enjoyed the process of making the short video and would have liked to keep a copy.