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Soft vs telling lies

About Simon Ellis

Simon Ellis is a film director of short films that have different twists and plots involved in it, he first started off when the was just 16 years old, he shot his first film in black and white where he attended the school Coventry, Ellis began to take media more serious as he began to work with cameras and studied fine art. Later on in Simones career he developed into an amazing film director winning awards for his short films making eleven different short films to entertain the audience. ”Director Award for Best European Web Film for Choose a Different Ending and Who Killed Deon was ranked 'most awarded TV campaign in the world' by Campaign magazine in January 2012”.

Soft

This film was made in 2007 and it is  basically a this short film it highlights a boy who is being picked on by a group of hoodlums/teens and it ends up going to far as you can see in the film even though we do not know how long he has been bullied for we as the audience see that he looks to be bullied for a long time by the same group of people, the story starts off with a running camera scene recorded by a mobile phone which gives us the effect that a teenager is recording off their phone ,then we see a group of boys picking on this one boy in particular and they are beating him up leaving the boy weak and defenceless.

We then move on later from that scene to see the boys dad getting a pint of milk from the local corner shop then he is encountered by some hoodlums not knowing it was the same hoodlums that attacked his son ,they then get into a conflict and the teenagers then retaliate in a way that they made the dad feel very weak and defenceless as his son was, later on in the film as we see the dad and the son have a very slow and not so good relationship we see the group of teens end up outside the family house calling out the father ,as we go on the boy is wanting his father to go out and deal with the boys as he tells his dad that those were the exact same group of teens that attacked him on his way home from school ,we then learn that his dad is not what he makes out to be and we soon find out who’s in charge of the house hold.

Telling lies

This film was made in 2000 and it still has an effect on society now ,This short film starts off with a phone call from the man’s mother as she is checking on him ,we then go on to find out that the man had been drinking the following night and he has a hangover by the low tone of his voice even though we cannot see him we can tell by the convocation that later on leads up to it with his mother, he then tells his mum he had a break up with his girlfriend  which resorted to his best friend sleeping with his girlfriend ,we find out this when his girlfriend calls him angrily to tell him what she had done with no remorse because of the boy friend’s behaviour during the night out, we wonder why she is telling him this and why she is angry we find out when his girlfriend tells us the audience by saying that he had cheated first on her so she took it upon herself to get him back.

Soft is very similar to the film “Telling lies” not just because they are directed by the same man but because the genre is more like the same the relationship wise and drama wise . in the film we see that the boy and the dad do not really have a good relationship with each other I think the short film “soft” is a drama as we can see that there is a lot of tense moments in the film where we see the hoodlums that attacked the boy are in control over a grown man when we see the scene where he is being attacked and not doing anything about, this makes us the audience wonder what is he going to do to the hoodlums? is he going to get them back? For attacking him and how he will react and what will happen when we find out the same people that attacked the boy finds out that they also attacked his father, so this genre of film is classified as drama because there are fight scenes and also suspense.

Telling lies is very similar to the film “soft” because I think that the short film about “telling lies” is more of a relationship type of drama as we see in the film that its about a rocky style of a relationship  ad that there is no trust what so ever in the two couple as they had both cheated on each other on a night out, there is one scene where we see drama and a bit of betrayal when the girlfriend tells him that she cheated on him with his best friend , then we go on to see him right his best friend and ask him what happened ,he stars off the convocation with “is there something you have to tell me?” this causes dram and tension because we want to know if his friend will tell the truth ,again like in the film soft, this causes drama and leaving us in a state of mind thinking are they going to fight or even have an argument and this gives us the audience a sense of anxiousness in wanting to know what is going to happen.

I think overall both films were very interesting as it had different twist and turns in the film and the titles are more deceiving than you would first think , as you could probably by looking at the first opening scene when you see the boy in the film soft being bullied by a group of people but as alter on you see i the film everything becomes more clearer and you begin to open  your eyes more as you see the real meaning of the title of the film and who its really about, just like the film telling lies, we see like to different sides of the film we know that it’s about telling lies but what we don’t know is that they are telling the truth out loud speaking it but they are really lying in their heads which ,makes us question the title and the smart way the film director plays around with the film.

Favourite film

Four Brothers  (2005)

Genre: Action Crime Drama

Director: John singleton is the man responsible for his most famous film boys in the hood where he showed what exactly what was going on in new York at the time which really brought people to a Holt  as they felt that this film really did explain what people were going through in america at those times.The film Four Brothers is a remake up to date version of  the 1965 old western film "The sons of Katie elder" where similar things happen in the film "four brothers" as they seek revenge for there mothers death.

Writers: David Elliot, Paul Lovett

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson and Garrett hedlund

Story line

It is about four adopted brothers who come together after a number of years after finding out their mother had been murdered, they then begin to investigate their mother’s death and start to take the law into their own hands. There are two cops one black one white one of the cops are secretly working for the hoodlum and when the other cop realizes that the white cop helped to kill the old lady then he kills his partner and frames his dead partner making it seem he was killed by one of the four brothers, later on the cop is found out and is killed by another officer (good cop) after one of the four brothers found out about the dirty cop and how he killed his partner. Then later on in the story the three brothers then find out one of the brothers are dealing with a notorious local bad guy/gangster which then creates problems.

This film gives you mixed emotions e.g. when the youngest brother dies in a set up shoot out organized by the hoodlum you feel sorry for the other three brothers because in that scene the little brother is in pain slowly dying and screaming for his big brothers help.

Again in that scene it also makes you angry because you know it was the thuugs that set up the whole thing, so it makes you feel angry towards the hoodlum even though you do not see him in that scene but the director gives it to you subliminally that this was the doings of the hoodlum.

I watched this film at home by myself it was recommended by a friend to watch it, and I enjoyed it because I had no idea what it was about.

Working title

Working title research

Is a company that is based in London it is a British film company and it was first founded by the following people Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. Even though it is based in London the film company working title has a number of locations from Ireland to Los Angeles .working title are also involved with a number of different productions from film to TV and also plays.

Working title also have subsidiary production called working title 2 this was created in 1999 and again by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe but this was more of an independent company this was run by a woman called Natascha Wharton which she put Ideas into paving the way for films such as.

Film/TV: Four weddings and a funeral

Film/TV: Sean of the dead

Film: Johnny English reborn

Play: Billy Elliot

Film: Bridget jones Diary

 Working title also have a parent company and this is own by USA’s own NBC Universal company, they used to be owned by  PolyGram from 1991-1999 but then they were merged  MCA Music Entertainment to make Universal music group, which is a record label which is joined up by a number of record labels like def. jam and  mercury records  and any music from an artist that is signed form this label there songs can be played in the film being made ,which means working title even though based in London could have US artists songs featuring on the films sound track.

Video purposal 400 words

My video genre is going to be GRIME music

I will also have a few people in the video maybe dancing; I will have different camera angles to show different angles of the main person in the video to tell the story of what is going on, I will use eye levels bird’s eye view and worm's eye. I want my video to be a bit like a video I've seen before "rival they said" which has different camera angles and different shots of him when he is rapping also some imagines of him in the recording studio. The location of my video will in playground/park, and will be set in Camden town because there is a lot of people present and it’s a busy area and you get the effect of people walking around minding their own business as the video is taking place. In my video i am going to have a long shot wide shot where you can see my body and see what things are going on in the background at the same time, The sound in the background playing will be the music of my choice that i will make myself, There will be different clips of me in the video and different clips of other people in the video featuring. The setting of the video shoot will be in the day time so you can see what’s going on around the place rather than it being at night and you can’t really see a lot of what is going on because of the lighting. I will also have other artists featuring in the video so you will not only just see my face but other people I get in my music video. in my video we will also be walking around the place to looking at different shops and different places in Camden area and trying to get random people on the camera to maybe say a line in the song to get them more involved in the video. 

                 

Cover letter Job

Garnett road 

Hampstead

London NW3 2XP

Tel: 07949890462

Dave Stabley Smith

Head of MTV

MTV Network Europe studios

17-29 Hawley Crescent

Camden lock

London NW1 8TT

Dear Mr Smith,

I am writing to you because I am a very passionate young person who is looking for a job at your great business wether its behind closed doors or camera work.

 My name is Alex Johnson Cole and I am 18 years old and I have been watching MTV nearly all my life, I enjoy watching the news reports and I also attend the events you host especially the music ones, I do music myself as I am a musician myself, I currently write my own lyrics and know how to make instrumentals, I am also learning how to edit videos in my creative media classes that I take in college so I feel like that I can offer lot for this colourful business that you hold.

I do know that there will be a lot of young eager applicants trying to fill out this job spot but I do feel like have more too give to the business as a whole with the range of talents I have developed.

 I can be contacted by email Alexjohncole@live.com or phone number 07949890462

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and hope to be working with you in the near by future.

Yours sincerely 

Alex Johnson cole

CV

Name: My name is Alexander Johnson-Cole

Address:
Flat 36 park dwellings
Garnett road Hampstead
NW3 2XP

Number: 07949890462

Email: alexjohncole@live.com

Education: I studied in St James catholic high school for six years and then I left to do a media course which i currently study in City of Westminster college where enjoy myself the most.

Qualifications:
Maths C
English lit C
English language B
ICT Merit/B
Religious Education A
Art B
Health and nutrition B
last year Business studies B

Skills: I am good with music and using the computer i currently do my own music and recording that means from making my own instrumentals/beats to writing my own lyrics. 

Employment: I did work experience in abbey centre for the Sundanese woman association ,which meant I had to do some business work and see how things work in the business.
i also go on holiday every year to america to help my uncle to do building work and constructions, which means building inside the house to fixing outside the house

Media related experience: i do not really have a lot of media experience but i do use my camera to take pictures and videos for my music sometimes editing the video.

Interests and achievements:
my interests are media studies ,watching films playing football and also going to the studio to make music

References: my references are my teachers fro my college Lucy and Barrington Paul

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What is my role? purposal

What is my role Proposal?

What is your role?

In my group there are three of us and we will be all doing different roles Ray will be editing the video after it has been done making sure if any mistakes arebeen made we can fix them and make them better and Belinda will be recording the footage that we get, my role is to interview people asking the students in the college what they would like in a relationship and how would they cope in a relationship, also asking them how they would feel in certain situations if things were to happen to them in a relationship and go wrong but we will also be doing different scenes so we will be switching roles rather than just having one person just doing the same role.

Here are lists of different items I will need for my assignment for any sort of back up.

I will need a Video camera to record the footage with me and my group.

I will also basically need a Digital recording media/tape, chip, drive in order for the video interview to actually work properly. 

Me and my group will also be using microphones we are not sure which kind yet but we will need good microphones in order for our interview to sound good.

I will need spare batteries and cable headphones just in case anything were to happen to them or if we run out of batteries for the video we can use new ones to continue our recording.

I will need paper and pens so I can write down the questions being asked in case I forget, i will also need a paper and pen for other things to maybe write down notes and also to plan the pole in what most people have said then I have a rough idea in what I will need to transfer from the paper to maybe the computer.

We will need a computer to tally things out at the end of the pole to see how many people have said the same thing and how many people have chosen to say another. Also we will need the computer to do some editing for our presentation to be more professional and entertaining putting music and colour into it.

I will need a place to locate where I will be asking the questions with my group and we have chosen the third floor in college at lunch time where the college is most at its busiest, we chose this time because we found out we can catch a lot of people at this hour and most people are willing to take part in the questions rather than doing it in the morning were people are not really responsive or after college were everyone is tired and just wants to go home.