New Plugs - Got some gorgeous new plugs from Glamsquared! They're blue Victorian Style skeleton design ones!! So well made and unique!! Love Stuff like this! Here's the glamasaurus etsy shop!
Horse Riding - First proper lesson in a few years tonight! Will be good to get properly back into it! If not expensive!
Curse Of The Golden Flower - Just wow! Visually stunning film with a great plot and cast!!!
Citti Petts - Just filmed their music video for Love In a Riot. Can't get the song out of my head! Really cool band, check them out on Soundcloud
Casting - Getting stuck in casting away for our latest short film! A seaside based drama about a failing musician!
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Resume: A Short Film About Suicide
As part of my uni work for semester 1 we were required to submit a 3 minute long short film.
I decided to do a visual piece to accompany one of my favourite poems 'Resume' by Dorothy Parker. This is just my own interpretation of the piece!!
I couldn't have done it without my awesome little crew! So thanks to the 3 of you!!!
Comments would be much appreciated!
Produced, Directed, Edited & Camera: Vicki Henshaw
Starring: Natasha Katz
Sound: Scott McGregor
Music: Phil Daine
I decided to do a visual piece to accompany one of my favourite poems 'Resume' by Dorothy Parker. This is just my own interpretation of the piece!!
I couldn't have done it without my awesome little crew! So thanks to the 3 of you!!!
Comments would be much appreciated!
Produced, Directed, Edited & Camera: Vicki Henshaw
Starring: Natasha Katz
Sound: Scott McGregor
Music: Phil Daine
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Things I Love This Week
Tattoos - Just went with a friend whilst he got his, really craving a new one now! Plenty of ideas, just not plenty of money!
Blackpool - After spending the morning there looking at some locations for a new film Im completely in love with it again! The weather was awesome for March!
Mega Week Bargains At Debenhams - Good old mega week is on at Debs this week. Might mean some late shifts for me, but that equals more money for me and some good bargains for my family!!
Pro Tools - Good lecture on Pro Tools, seriously making me debate learning more about becoming a sound recordist.
The Boyfriend - When I get in after a long day and he tells me he's missed me and wants cuddles I am a very happy girl! <3
Hot Chocolate From Uni - Nearly better than sex!
Blackpool - After spending the morning there looking at some locations for a new film Im completely in love with it again! The weather was awesome for March!
Mega Week Bargains At Debenhams - Good old mega week is on at Debs this week. Might mean some late shifts for me, but that equals more money for me and some good bargains for my family!!
Pro Tools - Good lecture on Pro Tools, seriously making me debate learning more about becoming a sound recordist.
The Boyfriend - When I get in after a long day and he tells me he's missed me and wants cuddles I am a very happy girl! <3
Hot Chocolate From Uni - Nearly better than sex!
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Things I Love This Week
Writing Reviews On LoveFilm - I really can't stop writing reviews on films I've watched or really loved, even if its just a short comment. Just another way to get my opinion out there!
LaTasca - Going to one of my favourite restaraunts to celebrate being with my boyfriend for 6 months tomorrow <3
Twitter - Trying to get twitter gonig again. Keep having spells of not using it then getting back into it. Username is @VickiMihn if you want to follow!
Massive Clearouts - Including under my bed and on top of my wardrobe. Feels nice to know that I've not just got a load of junk stashed there anymore!
Alice In Wonderland Necklace - My xmas present off my boyfriend. One of my favourite pieces of jewellery, jsut because its from him!
LaTasca - Going to one of my favourite restaraunts to celebrate being with my boyfriend for 6 months tomorrow <3
Twitter - Trying to get twitter gonig again. Keep having spells of not using it then getting back into it. Username is @VickiMihn if you want to follow!
Massive Clearouts - Including under my bed and on top of my wardrobe. Feels nice to know that I've not just got a load of junk stashed there anymore!
Alice In Wonderland Necklace - My xmas present off my boyfriend. One of my favourite pieces of jewellery, jsut because its from him!
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Things I Love This Week
My Boyfriend - I've really fallen for him now. I can't even begin to understand how he's so perfect. He makes me incredibly happy in a way no one else has done before.
Ideas - Getting back into planning out my film ideas has been really awesome, I feel a lot more inspired and clear about my ideas this year.
Black Lace Dresses - Especially my new one (bought by my lovely boyfriend for me) when its worn with my black patent leather shoes from Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers range.
River Cobbler - Now one of my favourite types of white fish!
"Pain is temporary. Film is forever" - A quote from 'The Director's Cut' which I saw at Dead By Dawn Festival. I really think it sums up my attitude towards film making! Debating getting it tattooed on me somewhere.
Ideas - Getting back into planning out my film ideas has been really awesome, I feel a lot more inspired and clear about my ideas this year.
Black Lace Dresses - Especially my new one (bought by my lovely boyfriend for me) when its worn with my black patent leather shoes from Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers range.
River Cobbler - Now one of my favourite types of white fish!
"Pain is temporary. Film is forever" - A quote from 'The Director's Cut' which I saw at Dead By Dawn Festival. I really think it sums up my attitude towards film making! Debating getting it tattooed on me somewhere.
Dead By Dawn Festival 2010
For part of my Masters course we are expected to make some sort of effort to gain experience within the film industry in some form. For my first attempt at gaining this experience, I volunteered to help out at Dead By Dawn Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The film festival is primarily a horror film festival run by the lovely Adele Hartley at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh. I was required to swap day passes for the relevant tickets, answer general enquiries and look after the guests: Australian actress Mollie King, director Thomas Hefferon and their guests. Even though the day was long, it was good fun, everyone I spoke to was really lovely and it was nice to be around people who also had such a passion for film. There were some incredible films shown at the festival and it made it really worthwhile travelling all the way up to Edinburgh.
My absolute favourite film of the day, and now one of my favourite pieces of film I’ve ever seen, was the visually stunning Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires. I love anything to do with the romantic side of death, and this film showing the journey of a corpse from several seconds before death to being eventually taken to a morgue and later to being turned into ashes at a crematorium. The concept is explained via elegant dance based movement, and has really made me appreciate how beautiful macabre dance can really be. I couldn’t even begin to describe how beautiful this film really is, it honestly makes me speechless whenever I even think about it!
Danse Macabre Official Site
My second favourite film, and again now one of my favourite documentaries, was Cropsey. A documentary about the Staten Island, New York urban legend of a deranged killer who lived in the grounds of the local abandoned mental asylum. The film makers traced this urban myth back to its roots and discovered that ‘Cropsey’ may have in fact been based upon a string of missing children cases spread over a number of years; thought to have been committed by a former orderly at the asylum who later lived in the grounds of the building, mainly in the masses of tunnels underneath the building with a range of other mentally unstable people. I really felt that this documentary has been one of the few pieces of film, either real or fiction that Ive ever seen that genuinely left me feeling unsettled. I’d been so absorbed in the film that it took me a good 15 mins to get round the fact that I was actually in the middle of a busy city rather than tramping through the asylum grounds with the filmmakers. I think Cropsey really takes the viewer on a journey with the film makers to discover more about the real story behind the legend.
Cropsey Official Site
Another film worth mentioning was 5150, Rue Des Ormes a French-Canadian film about a local filmmaker who is taken captive by a local part time vigilante father obsessed with chess and being righteous. I loved the twist of Jacques Beaulieu having made an entire dead human chess set completely out of the ‘unrighteous’ people for the black side and ‘good’ people for the white side, it made a nice twist to a film that builds its tension around the multiple escape attempts made by the captured yet innocent Yannick. The film is also captivating as we see Yannick almost losing his mind when himself becoming obsessed with winning just a single game of chess in order to secure his release. I also loved the actors cast to play the main family and Yannick and really thought they did their characters justice, making them completely believable.
5150, Rue Des Ormes Official Site
Another couple of films worth mentioning were Tufty, the short film that could offer an answer to where teddy bears really come from; The Pool, a film about the disappearance of a boy whilst playing in a local pool (directed by Thomas Hefferon) and Sunshowers, about a girl who accidentally hits an old man whilst driving a stolen car.
Overall, the festival and the film choices were fantastic and I will definitely be going next year, whether it’s as a volunteer or as an audience member. I would highly recommend this festival to anyone who loves the dark, macabre and the horrific.
Dead By Dawn Festival Official Site
My absolute favourite film of the day, and now one of my favourite pieces of film I’ve ever seen, was the visually stunning Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires. I love anything to do with the romantic side of death, and this film showing the journey of a corpse from several seconds before death to being eventually taken to a morgue and later to being turned into ashes at a crematorium. The concept is explained via elegant dance based movement, and has really made me appreciate how beautiful macabre dance can really be. I couldn’t even begin to describe how beautiful this film really is, it honestly makes me speechless whenever I even think about it!
Danse Macabre Official Site
My second favourite film, and again now one of my favourite documentaries, was Cropsey. A documentary about the Staten Island, New York urban legend of a deranged killer who lived in the grounds of the local abandoned mental asylum. The film makers traced this urban myth back to its roots and discovered that ‘Cropsey’ may have in fact been based upon a string of missing children cases spread over a number of years; thought to have been committed by a former orderly at the asylum who later lived in the grounds of the building, mainly in the masses of tunnels underneath the building with a range of other mentally unstable people. I really felt that this documentary has been one of the few pieces of film, either real or fiction that Ive ever seen that genuinely left me feeling unsettled. I’d been so absorbed in the film that it took me a good 15 mins to get round the fact that I was actually in the middle of a busy city rather than tramping through the asylum grounds with the filmmakers. I think Cropsey really takes the viewer on a journey with the film makers to discover more about the real story behind the legend.
Cropsey Official Site
Another film worth mentioning was 5150, Rue Des Ormes a French-Canadian film about a local filmmaker who is taken captive by a local part time vigilante father obsessed with chess and being righteous. I loved the twist of Jacques Beaulieu having made an entire dead human chess set completely out of the ‘unrighteous’ people for the black side and ‘good’ people for the white side, it made a nice twist to a film that builds its tension around the multiple escape attempts made by the captured yet innocent Yannick. The film is also captivating as we see Yannick almost losing his mind when himself becoming obsessed with winning just a single game of chess in order to secure his release. I also loved the actors cast to play the main family and Yannick and really thought they did their characters justice, making them completely believable.
5150, Rue Des Ormes Official Site
Another couple of films worth mentioning were Tufty, the short film that could offer an answer to where teddy bears really come from; The Pool, a film about the disappearance of a boy whilst playing in a local pool (directed by Thomas Hefferon) and Sunshowers, about a girl who accidentally hits an old man whilst driving a stolen car.
Overall, the festival and the film choices were fantastic and I will definitely be going next year, whether it’s as a volunteer or as an audience member. I would highly recommend this festival to anyone who loves the dark, macabre and the horrific.
Dead By Dawn Festival Official Site
Friday, 10 September 2010
The Dungeon Masters
The Dungeon Masters in a documentary about people who play the role play based game ‘Dungeons & Dragons’. Personally, even having watched the documentary, I still don’t really understand how people play the game. To me, it appears that it involves people grouping together to talk out, or sometimes act out, a fantasy type story purely for amusement purposes. Although not something that appeals to me in the slightest, I'm all for whatever floats your boat! The documentary focuses on 3 people, but offers plenty of other insights into aspects of the games’ culture. I admire that these people have the courage to act out such games whilst all remaining in character without making a big joke out of it. I respect their passion and dedication to fully embracing this different aspect into their lives and I can see the creativity enhancing benefits such a thing may offer to individuals. However, I feel that it is too much escapism from the real world for my liking. I think the documentary offers an interesting insight into these gamers lives without making fun of them; it portrays them as average, every day people. It also explores their personal reasons for gaming in a sensitive manner, in particular the female gamer who paints herself in full body paint as a black elf type character. She tells of an abusive husband and a tragic miscarriage; it’s clear to see that this sort of game play offers her an escape from the horrible things from her past. I enjoyed this documentary as it opened my eyes to an alternative culture which is actual of great importance in regards to personal entertainment, social and confidence development of people who struggle to develop in the 'normal' world.
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