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Thursday, 22 May 2008

Edwin Porter: the great train robbery

Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy Award–winning film editor/sound designer, the son of painter Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967). Murch married Muriel Ann (Aggie) at Riverside Church, New York City, on August 6, 1965. Walter and Aggie have 4 children: Walter Slater Murch, Beatrice Murch, Carrie Angland, and Connie Angland.

Murch started editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969). Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas's THX 1138, American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound. Murch also mixed the sound for Coppola's The Godfather Part II which was released in 1974, the same year as The Conversation. In 1985 he directed his one film, Return to Oz, which he co-wrote with Gill Dennis.

Unlike most film editors today, Murch works standing up, comparing the process of film editing to "brain surgery and short-order cooking", since both cooks and surgeons stand when they work. In contrast, when writing, he does so lying down. His reason for this is that where editing film is an editorial process, the creation process of writing is opposite that, and so he lies down rather than sit or stand up, to separate his editing mind from his creating mind.[1]

Murch has written one book on film editing, In the Blink of an Eye (2001).[2] Murch was the subject of Michael Ondaatje's book The Conversations (2002);[3] the book, which incorporates from several conversations between Ondaatje and Murch, emerged from Murch's editing of The English Patient, which was based on Ondaatje's novel of the same name.

In 2007 the documentary Murch premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival, which centered on Walter Murch and his thoughts on film making.[4]

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murch

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Film Idea: GCSE Drama Idea

for my gcse, we created a piece of work with numerious twists and turns in the pathway of the story. it started of with a family in a car, they are driving alone, and a truck hims them from behind, they spin off the road and the car flips into the nearby hedge.
in the next scene the mother is waking up in hospital her children are in the room and her husband is nowhere to be seen.
the kids realise she has woken up and the doctors are buzzed, the doctors enter the room, completely ignoring the two children, they ask the mother a few questions and then explain that seh was in a car crash and she has been in a coma for five months.
after a few days she is released from hospital, and she is at home, she has a phyciatrist visit her once a week to see how she is copeing.
when he arrives he sees the kids uniforms are on the side, their toys are all over the floor, after some time of talking to her, she starts to talk about how after the accident her husband left her and the kids and he was now living with his receptionist, the doctor looked puzzled and asks why all the toys are on the floor, the mother replies that the kids were playing in the front room, until he knocked and she sent them upstairs, the doctor again looked very puzzled. he explains to her that she was the only one that survived the crash.

Film Idea: dejavu

A student in his room,always downloading films and anime. he stumbles across a anime series that sounds interesting and after watching five minutes of the first episode he realises that the main character and the room are very similar to him and his room, infact there identical, the flashbacks that happen in the first episode are things that previously happened to him in his life. he doesnt pay much attention but he goes to uni the next day and has a strange day, he fills that his life is not quite his own.he goes home and watches episode two. and its a complete reinactment if the day that he had.
he starts watching the rest of the series and he discovers he dicovers his life is in fact not his own,
by episode 13 something terrible is going to happpen to him which will change the lives of everyone around him, it is fortold that two paths will appear, one leading to his death and the other to desaster, if he believes what he is watching is going to happen to him, then the greatest choice and sacrifice of his life is about to happen

Film Idea: Valentnes day

A film idea based on the song valentines day by linkin park

i alreadi have the script and the lyrics with anotation on it i just need to write it on here. and that will be done about midnight when i get back from work.

forest scene the moon light illuminating the ground, snow is on the ground and it is reflecting the moons glow.
A man lost in sorrow, hes heart broken because of love

My insides all turned to ash, so slow - a fire burns, ash from the fire blows in the wind, camera follows the ash, to a man facing away from the camera
And blew away as I collapsed, so cold - man collapes to his knees
A black wind took them away, from sight - leaves blow up and camera follows to a black/blue night sky, shot of the moon, illuminating the sky
And held the darkness over day, that night - leaves blow up and camera follows to a black/blue night sky, shot of the moon, illuminating the sky

And the clouds above move closer - leaves blow up and camera follows to a black/blue night sky, shot of the moon, illuminating the sky
Looking so dissatisfied - leaves blow up and camera follows to a black/blue night sky, shot of the moon, illuminating the sky
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing - shows him walking
I used to be my own protection, but not now - like if hes hurt, camera stops following and shows blood drops in the snow. blood is dripping from his right arm.
Cause my path had lost direction, somehow -
A black wind took you away, from sight
And held the darkness over day, that night

And the clouds above move closer
Looking so dissatisfied
And the ground below grew colder
As they put you down inside
But the heartless wind kept blowing, blowing

So now you're gone, and I was wrong
I never knew what it was like, to be alone

On a Valentine's Day, on a Valentine's Day
On a Valentine's Day, on a Valentine's Day
On a Valentine's Day, on a Valentine's Day
(I used to be my own protection, but not now)
On a Valentine's Day, on a Valentine's Day
(Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow)
On a Valentine's Day, on a Valentine's Day
(I used to be my own protection, but not now)
On a Valentine's Day, on a Valentine's Day
(Cause my mind has lost direction, somehow)

Fim Idea: The Last Nightmare

Based on a Little place that i grew up in, Abbey Wood, more precisely les nes abbey, the wood in my Little town, a dark woods like area with a open grass area, a old half fallen down stone church. at night the scene is already set for something ery to happen.

Idea 1

there has been a story pasd down from parent to child, somethign to do with the church being haunted, the story about the women who gave her heart to her lover. she had recieved a letter that he had died while at war, she had given him her heart,so that no1 else could ever have it. after recieving word that he was dead she cut her heart and while it was still beating she buried it in a box beside her husbands coffine, so her heart would alwyas be by his side.

Idea 2

beside the public toilets is a building where all waste branches as put, the room filled with twigs, mistic powers create demons out of these branches

Film Idea: On the run

A women on the run from her past moving from place to place trying to hide herself from the world, she is smart and pretty, she is enrolled as a student under her new name, her new appearence. she meets someone at uni, and they aint all that they appear to be

Film idea: Documentary video

about peopel being out late at night, aimed mainly at women, but also aimed at men, what they should and shouldnt do on a night out

dont walk home alone
dont take shortcuts
dont be on your phone / texting or listening to music
stay in lit areas
dont use public toilets
dont walk through car parks
dont wear revealing cloths
try to get taxis home

Film idea hells gate

the year is 2022 and london is in ruins, 5 years ago something appeared in trafager square and a two mile radias was destroyed. the millatary quarinteened this area as forbidden/ it had been named hells gat, a paraelle dimension, a barrane wasteland with no inherience, when the explosion was over only a handfull of people survived, they were all in comas, but a little while after they all recovered, theses survivors, had all lost something but they had also gained something at the same time.