Limitless film review.

Director- Neil Burger
Writers- Lesley Dixon (screenplay)
             Alan Glynn (novel)
Starring- Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Robert De Niro
Genre- Action thriller
Plot summary-
Limitless is based around a writer who decides to take a experimental drug that lets him use 100% of his mind. Being a out of work writer and having just been dumped by his girlfriend Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) resides to the decision that he has no future. This is until Eddie bumps into a old friend, who introduces him to an unlicensed drug called NZT. As Eddie takes the pill anything he has ever read or heard is instantly brought back to his mind and made avalible whenever needed. It also gives him more confidence then any other man in the world. As Eddie climbs further and further up the financial ladder due to his unstoppable mind he makes friends with bigger then big business mogul Carl Van Loom (Robert De Niro), who thinks that Eddie's mind is the key to make more money then either of them could imagine. But with Eddie's daily dosage of NZT rapidly running out the side effects of this pill come hurtling towards him with awful side affects.

Review-
This film was very enjoyable and kept me on the edge of my seat through out with its twists and turns to keep the audience hooked. I felt the ending lacked slightly with what seemed like a cliff hanger as to where Eddie went with his life next but nevertheless there was a clear storyline throughout. All acting was extremly good including the violence scenes.

New project!

So the new project is called 'THE JOURNEY' it is based on me taking several sill photographs and producing them into a 3 minute film in which i have produced my own background music for.
The title, 'The Journey' is quite a broad subject and so can be related to many things including the following:

• Personal
• Comical 
•  A mixture of many emotions. 

Over the past few weeks i have been thinking about what i could use for my 'journey.' The process took me in many different directions. Some thoughts i had included are:

• A literal journey, such as a car/train journey. 
• A mental journey, something that would show someone going from one mental state to another. 
• The journey of something happening, such as a task being performed. 

The idea i finally decided upon was a personal journey that I have had to do many times in my own life. This would be a journey from my house to the children's hospital. This will involve taking pictures of me going form my house (bedroom, downstairs and into the car) the journey whilst in the car, ( the views, different road signs, showing me getting closer to the hospital) and finally me arriving at the hospital, (the sign to the hospital, reception area, different hospital departments.)
When i took the photos of this journey i was quite dissapointed with the outcome.  Even though some of the pictures were good quality most were not what i was looking for. Also i did not think i had enough pictures to sustain a 3 minute film. Another reason that i was dissapointed was that i did not really think that the journey had a storyline at the beginning and part the way through the middle. It wasn't until the end shots of the hospital that the story/journey seemed to make sense! So in the end i decided that i would re think my idea.

An idea that i had come up with before i decided on the hospital journey, was the journey to the seaside. This idea came to me as i have lived by the sea my whole life. So i will now be trying out the journey from Maidstone to hastings and then all of the things that you can get up to at the seaside for example, arcades, fish and chips and ice cream!

Trailer progress!

So I've been working on my trailer for a week or so now and its coming along! I was thinking it looks a bit bland until i put my titles on to it which gave it a bit more bulk and body. The music gives it a extra dimension as well, which was needed i think! Anyways back to work for me!

Pitch!

I have been struggling so much with my pitch for The Meeting! I can't seem to pack all the information that i want into 25 words or less! I'm struggling to write one with less then 30 words at the moment! But i have got one, let me know what you think of it!

'A bully and her victims world unknowingly collide, in a rollercoaster of emotion, violence and torment.'

Characters

Here is a short description of my 2 main characters in 'the meeting'


Sam
• 16 years old
• Tall
• Bigger built then other girls
• Lonely
• Violent father
• Mother who is too scared to protect them
• Due to not being able to protect herself from her father and seeing that he gets his way by being violent, she thinks if she is violent then she will get what she wants.
• Wants to be one of the popular girls
• Wants to feel love
• Has no one to talk to
• Wants to escape her real life
• The person she shows at school is not the person she is really

Thomas
• 14 years old
• Medium height
• Small build
• A mother who is too protective of him
• A father who is always away on business trips
• Feels that his protective and over motherly mum is the reason he is so shy
• Not many friends at school
• Prefers to study then mix with his peers
• Wants to be part of the cool crowd but doesn’t feel confident
• Wants to come out of his shell
• Fed up of doing the same thing day in, day out
• Wants to stand up to his bully but wont because he is scared of the consequences
• Has such a different personality under all of his shyness that he cannot bring himself to show to his peers.

I feel like i have really got into what my 2 characters are like, not only with their physical appearance but also with how they feel mentally and what their personal lives are like.

The Meeting

So I have been working really hard on my project 'The meeting' Its been a tricky one thats for sure! I have to have a pitch synopsis and 10 page script ready to hand in for next week.

Here are is my synopsis...

The meeting is a social realistic drama about a bully and her victim meeting online unknowingly. Thomas the brain box of his high school knows the routine of his school day, and it doesn’t just consist of classes, lunch and then more classes. Instead it involves the tedious bullying by his biggest and toughest peer, Samantha, or Sam as she is known. The tomboy who intimidates even the toughest of school lads.
Thomas, a geeky 14 year old has ambition, and although underneath he craves to be apart of the ‘cool crowd’ at his school he chooses to stay focused on his studies. Feeling fed up he decides to use a teen chat site t talk to others of his age. He is desperate to stray away from his geeky persona and so makes a profile based on his cooler, older and more popular brother Theo.
Sam, a tall, larger framed girl, is renowned for being the school bully ever since joining later then everyone else. He home life in turmoil with an alcoholic and abusive father, and a mother too scared to protect them, she thought the only way to be in control of parts of her life was through violence, just like her dad does. Wanting to break out of her scary outer shell and show the true her, she joins a chat site under the name of Sarah, a sweet fun loving girl- the girl she feels she is underneath.
Sarah and Theo start chatting one evening. Realising they can be them true selves with one another and building up a strong connection they chat as much as possible over the commencing weeks. Finally feeling they can meet, they get the shock of finding out who they have really been talking to all this time.
With Sam trying to hide her tormented home life and Thomas giving it a go to fit in, the shock of seeing whom they have been talking to may well be too much to handle. The one person they thought understood them is not who they thought. They cant bring themselves to talk to each other face to face like they have been online, but with everything going on in one another’s head, will the pair become even more truthful then they have been already or give up completely and go their separate ways? This gripping, true to life film will not have a problem keeping your eyes on the screen. The emotional rollercoaster that these two teenagers go on is packed with emotion and the twists and turns are bound to keep you on your toes.

The synopsis really gave me the chance to make my characters real people and not just people in a 10 minute film that i was making. I now have a very clear idea of what my characters are like and how they have come to how they are, i think all of this helps in the run up to the 1-2 minute trailer that i am making . I think this because if you have a clear idea of something it helps the process of getting to the end product much smoother and quicker!

I'm back!

Haven't blogged in a while and I'm sorry about that, but I'm back and ready to blog until i cannot blog anymore!