Oscars Intros:
When we were given the brief we began talking about what the last years intro looked like, we began looking at film ideas for our chosen intro. We began coming up with ideas and what scene we can do on a no budget. The scenes we chose were:
- Clue *
- Harry Potter *
- Captain America: Civil War *
- Blade Runner 2049
- Jurassic Park
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Star Wars
- Inbetweeners *
- Unbreakable *
- Good Fellas *
During filming some of these Scenes I was a member of the cast and others I worked as the Assistant Director. My chosen scene however (unbroken) did quite go to plan because of a number of factors such as the bald cap which was broken during transportation into college and the general acting of the cast (me and tom). My original idea however was to have Bruce Willis (Played by Thomas Burton) to lift up the weights and every time something is added a teddy bear of a soft item would be added to give a more serious scene more humour.
When we filmed Harry Potter, I think my acting could've been better as harry and the location could've maybe have been somewhere away from a shopping centre. However I think that the after effects could've had some more work to them to try and make it look like the actual spells used in harry potter. One of the other crew members said that the effects for the spell casting was "pretty good".
Another film I casted in was clue in which I played Mr. Body, the acting for this was really good and I was really proud of my portrayal of Mr. Body.
I also took part in the in the inbetweeners scene where I played as "Simon". This scene wasn't really great because I was constantly lost and couldn't remember what to do. The end product made it look awkward which I guess is the impression they were trying to make but I really think that with a bit more time I could've been something that we could've mastered.
Good fellas was an easy shoot as part of the cast because my main job was to sit in the boot and run when I get out, there wasn't much to it, we began filming during the dark after we filmed clue.
My last scene I acted in was our own version of captain America: civil war where some of the characters from other scenes fought against each other me and another student who played scarlet from clue ended up getting confused and stopping in our tracks half way through filming.
I filmed the Star Wars scene where Thomas Burton (who played Ben-Kenobi) and Luke Smith (who played Darth Vader) they replicated the scene where Ben-Kenobi is killed by Darth Vader.
Pre-show Rundown
Before filming my rundown I typed up a lot of notes on what films were nominees for the VFX Oscar which were:
My breakdown of the nominees wasn't the greatest because of how unclear I was during filming. I had to get quite a bit of help from the team. If I had went back over my notes and rehearsed them I believe my rundown would've been a lot better. The green screen would've made the back ground a lot more clearer and wouldn't have blended in with the bushes. I made some of the stuff up as I haven't watched Christopher robin, first man or solo. However my use of secondary sources for the films was great as I collected footage from Magic VFX, etc.
I worked on Joshes and Tom's pre-show which
Post-show Rundown
My post show was a lot better than my pre-show because I started to get use to presenting and I had my notes about the Oscars show, what won and what were the top 5 moments were. In my run down I was more clearer than my pre-show and I didn't use a CGI background which made it a lot better. I don't think there was much to change on my post-show but I think I could've added a couple of more moments and maybe explain more in detail why the film got it's Oscar.
