Category Archives: PP2

Workshop: Alister Grierson

The workshop that stuck with me the most was the Alister Grierson workshop in the first week of workshops. Allan Grierson has directed such films as Kokoda (2006) & the James Cameron produced Sanctum. Alister gave us quite a great insight into directing actors and the amount of work that goes into the preproduction of [...]

Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008)

The movie was written by writer/director Joss, Zack, Jed Whedon and his wife. The four of them wrote the musical during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Their idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike. [...]

Radiohead – Just Directed by Jamie Thraves.

Despite this video being a Radiohead music video, it is mostly remembered for the simple but highly impressionable ending. A man inexplicably lying on the floor, informs the crowd as to why he’s lying on the ground which in turn results in al the bystanders joining the man lying on the floor. The reason this [...]