Pink Panther 2

Pink Panther 2, sequel to 2006s poorly received 'The Pink Panther' is an unfunny comedy centred around french police officer Inspector Clouseau, who needs to realise that putting on a funny french accent is not enough to make a decent comedy. Funny gags are few and far in between and the film relies mainly on blatantly obvious set pieces to make you laugh, however very few of these are actually funny, the plot is simple, glaringly obvious and boring and the cast seem to consist simply of Clouseau, and he does little more than annoy you as he prances around thinking he's funny, perhaps for younger vewiers this film might be a worth wile trip, however for adualts with a mind for serious comedy this is definatly one to avoid.

The Arts Award

OK, bit of a chronological mix up here, but bear with me. I have been interested in Drama and performing arts all my life and have regularly attended 'Fish Tank' drama club at the Drill Hall, I recently started a course to obtain my bronze arts award (and then hopefully my silver and gold). The course requires several written documents such as notes on what you did, what you thought of it and so on, to make writing these documents a little easier I decided to start a blog, listing all my drama related activities, I can then cut and paste the parts Ineed off of this into a word document. It also gives me the change to document all my drama activities that are not connected to the arts award.

Drill Hall Unplugged

Lincoln Drill Hall runs a very popular music unplugged night once every month, these are aimed at a variety of audiences and recently the drill hall has begun a young unplugged night. As a one off even they decided they would try something new by doing a young unplugged film night, in which budding film makers could get the chance to present their work alongside live music. as part of this event six people from the arts award scheme including me were given the opportunity to create a film with the arts ark that would be shown at unplugged. Our project, entitled the pigeon whisperer was a success and was highly rated among the audience, however there were many other films and acts worthy of the highest praise shown that night from a wide variety of directors and producers, some were animated, some were live action, a few were simply a short collection of shots combined with music whereas other were longer films with a narrative linking them together. The three bands that performed were all highly talented and were received extremely well by the audience. Overall it was a very enjoyable evening and i would recommend any future unplugged film nights to anyone who is interested in media and film.

The Pigeon Whisperer

The Drill Hall's unplugged film night, barely eight hours away, and us, a team of six people with the job of creating a five minute piece to be shown there, a task that at that point seemed impossible. Luckily for us we had help from the amazing people from the artsark, who gave us access to all their equipment and expertise for the day, thanks to them in barely eight hours we achieved a piece of film worthy of the other masterpieces that were shown later that day, a film we could all be proud of, this is a brief guide to the process behind creating our five minute wonder.

When choosing our idea we originally looked at a documentary type film, however deciding that would be a little bit drab we decided to take a more humorous approach to our film, eventually deciding on a mockumentry, a spoof documentary that would look at fake events in a serious tone, in this case it was about a boy who believed he had the power to communicate with pigeons.

The next step in the process of creating our five minute short was to draw up some storyboards, have lunch and then film the shots we required. The filming was spilt into two easy parts, location filming, and studio shots. The location shots included some short films of our protagonist interacting with the pigeons as well as some library shots of him and the pigeons. There was also an on location interview which we filmed just outside the drill hall. The studio shots were a larger interview with the pigeon whisperer plus some short interviews with two experts.

After all the filming had been wrapped up we retired to the arts ark to begin the editing, we spilt into two groups, one to compose a sound track for the movie and one to edit the clips together into the correct order and add effects. For the latter we used a piece of editing software called I-movie, part of the I-life software available for macs. The library footage we had filmed came in very useful here for padding out the interviews and for stopping the film simply being one long conversation. The music was created using garage band, another part of I-life. We also had to add a voice over to several clips which we recorded in the artsark. The audio and visuals were then merged and adjusted until perfection had been achieved, now all that was left was the long and tiring process of converting everything to the right formats for its unveiling at the unplugged film night later that day.
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