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It's all in the soundtrack
Posted: 18/05/17 09:02 |
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There is one thing that exercises my ire when watching films more than anything else and that is the pointless over use of music and sound effects. Television is the main culprit, but cinema is also in the frame. I have railed against the ghastly wash of muzak as background fill with broadcaster and fellow producers and dared them to simply live without it.
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Looking at adverts: 17
Posted: 06/04/17 09:54 |
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I have chosen to look at anti-ageing commodity adverts in this blog because they frequently combine science with nature and myth in a fascinating way.
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Reading Proust By Kindle
Posted: 08/03/17 09:41 |
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Last week I bumped into myself near Oxford Circus. Well, not me exactly but a slightly older and much cooler version of my teenage self: strap-hanging in the rush hour with one finger tucked into the first few pages of Proust and with his thumb in the Appendix.
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Rules of creation
Posted: 28/02/17 09:11 |
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul…”
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What do we want when we go to the movies?
Posted: 09/02/17 09:28 |
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Simple and honest entertainment, escape, terror, stimulation, a need to cry, a wish to laugh, to hang out with friends and have a good argument afterwards or to follow the ones we love, is that what we want from a visit to the cinema?
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Film, memory, identity
Posted: 17/11/16 09:06 |
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Film music can and should be the trigger for memory, the power of cinema that can stay with us always.
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Edgezine – issue 1 aftermath
Posted: 19/10/16 09:11 |
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Collaborating with other OCA students has been a real highlight these past few months. All the hard work has paid off and our first issue of Edge-zine is printed and winging it’s way to various destinations in the UK and overseas.
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