This is Hard!

Ok, I don't feel as big an urge to post on here as I did for the XPP module. It may have something to do with the fact that this blog is for me and not for marks. Hopefully being bored at 00:15 and doing this first post means i'll get back in to the flow of typing out posts.

Ok, now it's 00:49. Damn.

Right, so I went in to my meeting with Maike with a few raw ideas and hoped that this would be a eye opener and I'd come out high with confidence knowing what I was going to do for my Masters project. Well, it turns out I should have done a lot of research over the Easter break. To be honest, the kick up the ass I got was much needed but I still feel it could have come before Easter like the Directors and Producers got. It kinda put weight to my argument that the Editors course is getting a little shunned.

Anyway, I went in with my idea of making film trailers out of my rushes from the films I worked on over the past 9 months. I suggested it and then we talked about Mike's film The Wardrobe. Maike then suggested editing Mike's film from different perspectives. Now that had been something i've been interested in for quite a while.

Last year at Glastonbury 2010, I watched the Chris Morris film, Four Lions. The film is about 5 extreme muslim terrorists who attempt to commit a terrorist attack. At the end of the film, despite some humorous moments, all terrorists set off bombs. Strangely, it's only when the last person explodes in Boots, I, and pretty much everyone i've spoke to about it, felt a sense of shock. Not at the mindless lack of humanity of the terrorists but the stark realisation that for the past 90 minutes or so, we as an audience have been rooting for terrorists, all for the reason that we were seeing it from only their point of view. That was the first time I fully understood the power of cinema. It showed me that the audience will invest in whatever main character that is given to them and will root for them no matter what their task is, be it world peace or world terror.

So mentioning looking at perspectives set excitement bells off in my head. I came out the meeting feeling pretty optimistic and felt like I knew what my project would be. I also kept the film trailers on the back burner as a back up plan.