A recent tearjerker.

PS I Love You was very tear evoking chick flick but somehow It didnt quite live up to the books standards. I couldnt quite put my finger on it as I enjoyed it but quite alot was changed as to how it was origionally written in the book. Maybe its not always a good idea to watch the film after reading the books as more often than not they're a bit of an anticlimax. A better example of this would have been "The Da Vinci Code". When we read books before having seen characters visually in a film we create how they look in our own minds, very often or not they are not as we had imagined them in the film as we had done in the book. When reading the Da Vinci code I pictured Robert Langdon as a very handsome and athletic man, and who did they give me in the film Tom Hanks which was abit of a let down as he didn't fulfill the role for me. Maybe (hopefully) they'll change him for someone else if they decide to do Angels and Demons.


Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet.



A story of love, of how to love and be loved in return.
Set in the village of Montmartre, near Paris at the height of the Bohemian movement. It is a heart wrentching tale of a secret love affair between Satine a beautiful courtesan and Christian a penniless but amazingly talented writer.

A few of my favourite adverts.

I have to say this is ultimately one of my favourite adverts at the moment, its amazing what they've done and the 300 theme fits in so perfectly. It was went to be.


I think this was one of the best of the Orange adverts. Never fails to make me laugh. And thank goodness for orange wednesdays, allows us students to be able to afford the cineama.

I have quite an obseesion with adverts, I'm always the one disaproving at people who fastforward during them. Thats the purpose of adverts though, to attract the viewer in such a short space of time. Above is an example of what I feel portrays a visually aesthetic and successful advert.

Film review

Ive decided that an important step towards creating an interesting blog is to put across my personal opinion about such things as films, adverts and books. Not so much that I have come across recently but in the past also.
One of my all time favourites is the outstanding film Gladiator which was directed by Ridley Scott. It stars Russell Crowe who portrays General Maximus Decimus Meridius, friend of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who is betrayed and murdered by his ambitious son, Commodus who is played by Joaquin Phoenix. Captured and enslaved along the outer fringes of the Roman empire, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor. The recreation of ancient rome is amazing, especially the replica of a third of the Colosseum which is the main set for the majority of the film. The rest of the colosseum was added digitally.
I feel the soundtrack gives the most beautiful atmosphere and is so well suited to the mood of the film.



One of the most renowned quotes from the film where the once mysterious Gladiator reveals himself to Commodus as the very infamous General Maximus Decimus Meridius.


This is my favourite soundtrrack of all time.
The music evokes such passion and feeling that its hard not to be captured in it.

The brightness that I have achieved in this shot was created by repeatedly waving the glow sticks over a smaller area, It almost looks asthough I'm holding a fan of light.

I love the way the colours fan out and sweep across the photo.
On the left hand side of the photo, I like the stronger contrast between the intensity of the light and colour compaired to the dark backgroud. Whereas on the right the colours are faded as this is where they glow sticks moved more quickly.

With each of my photographs I feel they give a slightly different sense of colour and light, whether it is in the way I have moved them across the camera lens or the order in which they were arranged in my hand as some show different colours from the rest.
This particular one above was taken up close on a macro setting, unlike the others I kept the glow sticks perfectly still as I wanted it to show clear detail with no blurring of the colours which was caused by rapid movement in the rest.