Snatch

Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2002)

 

After watching “Shifty” I felt to watch more British crime based films as I got addicted to “Shifty”.   I found the film “Snatch”  to watch which is about a bunch of people which consisted of illegal boxing promoters, jewelers, travelling fighters and thieves hence the title all chasing a stolen diamond. The film had an all-star cast with Brad Pitt with a great performance playing a traveler, Vinnie Jones who was playing the muscle man who was called in to help find the diamond and Jason Statham who played a boxing trainer.

Overall I thought the film was well scripted to suit a British audience with all its humor and performances.    

Shifty

Shifty (Eran Creevy, 2009)

 

After much mentions in class by our teacher I decided to go on watch “Shifty” as I went on to see the film I noticed that it was not so much of a story in a traditional sense, more of a day in the life of type of tale and in this case it’s through a drug dealer’s eyes. Whilst this is true in terms of the storyline, perhaps the true underlying meaning of the film is about relationships of all kind, family & friendships etc. I loved the “British-ness” about the film with great performances from Riz Ahmed and Nitin Ganatra who played brothers, there’s a scene where I thought “this is typical England” when both brothers started arguing in their native language which I thought was brilliant.

Preview

Preview

We showed some of our classmates our opening sequence, although at first we received an immature response as expected but with little help from our teacher we got them to give us constructive feedback on film after they had watched our opening sequence.

Filming

Filming

After much contemplating we decided that we should not include the final segment to our opening sequence which was the scene where Dhylan sees Tyler at the station across the platform, we felt that not including this will leave the audience wanting for more as there’s hardly anything that is clear enough for the audience to make assumptions on. Also we were short on time so we used what little time we had on editing our final piece.

Music

After completing most of the editing we face the issue of finding a suitable soundtrack for our opening sequence, our teacher suggested we have something like the scene 'Winkies Dream' from Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001) which had a certain tone to it which made the scene feel as if it were a dream or of its sort.

Beginning Evaluation

Today our teacher had showed us ways in which to evaluate our opening sequences. with not much time left we are rushed to finish, hopefully all will be done before deadline day.

Filming

We went filming today at one of our chosen loctions, today it was Wandsworth common station. the scene we was filming was the one where we have the two main characters at the station and Dhylan begins to see the ghost of Tyler but isn't sure whether what he is seeing is true or just a trickery of the eye