Week 10

Week 10

ABC Media Report - “Mankind is no Island “

Date 9th October 2008

Available here : http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2384099.htm

If you wanna watch the film, here it is as reposted on youtube. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrDxe9gK8Gk

Personally, I found it a bit preachy. And some of the writing was a bit too much like songs you’d hear in church. But the idea of a mobile phone film being the winner of all these prizes is quite interesting. Especially when the film is given power by the fact its was filmed by a mobile. You kinda think, oh wow, something so small and simple can capture so much emotion. But come on, let’s not go overboard.
But does that mean the mobile phone is the new digital video camera? Probably not, at least, not yet.
For a short film, yes, this idea works, but short films and feature length movies will always be too separate to be united like that.


The Australian lift out – “US, British network stars heading for Australia “

Date 13th October 2008

Available here : http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24484668-36418,00.html

I think in a couple of months time we will all be so sick of “Australia” most of us will just leave the country to get away from it all. It would be nice to get that money into Australia’s (let’s face it) struggling film industry. But at this cost? Surely not.
If you wanna watch the tourism Australia ad mentioned in the article it’s here.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gQGMuxJ0vCc
This is just so bad its funny. It’s SO LAME! SOOOO LAME!
I DON’T LIKE Baz Luhrman, he writes like a monkey smells.
It’s one hell of a 40 million dollar cliché.