Moonlight

http://moonlight.movie

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072HQPBF8

I recently watched Moonlight, the Academy Award Winner for best picture. It has instantly become one of my favourite films. The cinematography was exceptional, really adding to the atmosphere of the story. The storytelling itself was beautiful, creating an emotionally compelling piece for the entire film. I never got bored.

It summed up the complexities of life so well. It follows the main character, Chiron, as he grows up, discovering who he is whilst surrounded by drugs, poverty and many other complex situations.

Stephen Galloway, a writer for the Hollywood reporter said,

“Its story may be sprinkled with drug dealers and addicts. But its message is clear: The world is richer and deeper and more complex than we ever imagined, and even its most troubled characters — just like us — are looking for love.”

In a more general sense, I think it shows how film can help people go some way to understanding other people’s situations. I want to try and make people actually feel something when they watch my film. This is something Moonlight did so well and I’m very inspired by it because of this.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Moonlight. (2016) Film. Directed by Barry Jenkins. USA: A24.

GALLOWAY, S. (2016) Why ‘Moonlight’ Matters. Available at: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-moonlight-matters-949028 [Accessed 20th October 2017]

 

 

Life in a Day

‘Life in a day’ is a collaborative film by Ridley and Tony Scott. They asked people to submit video footage of their lives and answer some simple questions. All the footage was filmed on the same day: 24th of July, 2010. 4,500 hours of footage was sent to them, from people living in 192 countries.

Due to this vast coverage of so many different cultures, I think the film truly encapsulates what humanity is. Ranging from people having breakfast, to farmers milking sheep, to extraterrestrial activity, to Elvis impersonators, to fears about life, the film captures the mundane to the extraordinary. Simply, I think it shows what it is like to be alive.

In my 1 minute film, I also want to sum up, albeit in a much shorter format than ‘Life in a day’, what it means to be human. I want to show the differences and similarities of people’s lives. I think this film is a good starting point to thinking about how to do this in an interesting way. One person’s experience isn’t enough to demonstrate humanity’s experience as a whole. Using multiple people in my film could be a way to portray the idea of ‘what it means to be human’.life in a day notes

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Life in a day. (2011) Film. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. UK: Scott Free Productions.