Sketch book work and film screening.

Today in the morning I began to put in the work from yesterday into my sketch book with annotations about my art and what I thought about it afterwards. Then in the afternoon we had a film screening; we watched 'This must be the place' directed by Paolo Sorrentino in 2012. 

Watching the film I noticed that I liked the auteur style of the director and so I decided to write more technical notes than usual, as well as the plot I wrote more camera angles I liked in the film, such as in one particular scene when a telephone was passed from one person to another and we had a close up of the telephone and then the chord stretching as the person being passed it was waking away with it. I also liked the establishing shots of each new location and the long, slow shots of rooms, the camera rotating around the room or zooming out to show the audience the focus of the scene. This generates more suspense because you do not know what is happening until the last possible moment and I love that technique. I think I would interpret that in my own way when it's time for me to make something using camera angles and the other things I enjoyed about the film. Overall I am extremely glad that I had watched the film because I believe it has inspired me and given me ideas that I would not have had before watching the film. 

Most of my peers thought that the film was quite long winded or had a slow start but I enjoyed that aspect of it, I loved the start and how it built up to the conflict in the equilibrium. I read an article about the film- Tom Keough of 'The Seattle Times' wrote that the film was "an ill-conceived dramany with a shockingly annoying performance by Sean Penn, [that] can't really figure out what kind of movie it's supposed to be." But I completely disagree- I feel that the character of Cheyanne is complex and the performance was driven by the development of that and also the way at the end of the film the character is represented as almost another character, doing things that were impossible at the start of the film, an example of this is when Cheyanne gets the plane home, an impossible journey at the start of the film. I also thought Sean Penn's performance was incredible, the director knew that Penn wanted to work with him after seeing IL Divo at the 2008 Cannes film festival and so wrote the character of Cheyanne with him in mind. The directors' style was a specific one and I loved the cinematography and the Misé Én Scene of the film, as I've mentioned before I have fallen utterly in love with certain camera angles and the slow pan across the shots, to keep the essence of suspense present for as long as possible.