In all honesty I planned my fourth year thesis piece to be a documentary film. For about a year now I’ve wanted to create a film about the change in music booking at events halls and nightclubs in town. I actually found an interesting subject recently that would help me to further translate the story using one person central to the narrative. He’s actually a real estate wiz who developed nightclubs in New York city for several years and then moved shop to Toronto to attempt at building a club culture around a new venue concept he had. Unfortunately his style and way of thinking couldn’t keep up the the changing pace in the music industry and the place went bankrupt and was renovated under a new (and extremely successful) ownership. Alas this personal project does not fit into the confines of this assignment and looking at the future blog postings outlined I would not be able to comment on the criteria because of the nature of a documentary.
Recently I’ve been watching horror films non stop. I can’t say they are good one’s, but to fit the Halloween season they seem to be the cool thing to watch on a weekday evening. I’ve come to understand that nearly all of these films are unsuccessful in either keeping my attention or scaring me. Being a film student we tend to look at movies in a completely different light, but I think all viewers can understand the low brow style of recent ‘scary movies’. I’ve really wanted to develop a strong protagonist. Someone who can really connect with the viewer, be relatable, and most importantly realistic. There’s a huge stigma with horror films that the protagonists reaction to the situation is always unnatural and they do things that no right minded person would do. I understand for narrative sake characters need to perform specific actions to move the story onward, but in my experience I find the realism of a situation to be much more captivating for me at least. I’ve got a perfect male lead in mind who relates to some of my favorite horror protagonists in many ways. Secondly I’ve been discussing with my acting graduate roommate the styles and tones that make a successful horror film for weeks now. I’ve got loads of notes and tidbits of info to add to these next blogs from my film notepad and I look forward to turning this personal project into something much larger and hopefully develop a nice script from it.
Recently I’ve been watching horror films non stop. I can’t say they are good one’s, but to fit the Halloween season they seem to be the cool thing to watch on a weekday evening. I’ve come to understand that nearly all of these films are unsuccessful in either keeping my attention or scaring me. Being a film student we tend to look at movies in a completely different light, but I think all viewers can understand the low brow style of recent ‘scary movies’. I’ve really wanted to develop a strong protagonist. Someone who can really connect with the viewer, be relatable, and most importantly realistic. There’s a huge stigma with horror films that the protagonists reaction to the situation is always unnatural and they do things that no right minded person would do. I understand for narrative sake characters need to perform specific actions to move the story onward, but in my experience I find the realism of a situation to be much more captivating for me at least. I’ve got a perfect male lead in mind who relates to some of my favorite horror protagonists in many ways. Secondly I’ve been discussing with my acting graduate roommate the styles and tones that make a successful horror film for weeks now. I’ve got loads of notes and tidbits of info to add to these next blogs from my film notepad and I look forward to turning this personal project into something much larger and hopefully develop a nice script from it.
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