Saturday 19 December 2015

Film Noir OTS: Mise-en-Scène: Costume and Props ideas

Mine and Chloe Smith's narrative is of a protagonist who gets dreams or episodes opremonition, like flash-forwards into his life. He only sees himself doing bad things (conventional Film Noir types things) such as, meeting a manipulative femme-fatale, killing a femme-fatales ex and getting into trouble. So that he doesn't forget what he's seen in his last premonitory dream, the protagonist films himself on cassette tapes and also draws sketches of the people he sees. 

Our opening title sequence will be of our protagonist filming himself talking after one of his dreams and then sorting out his tapes. On the cassettes we will write on the main casts' names as they are typically in the OTS of these films.We are undecided on how to show the title of the film but want them to fit with our neo-noir horror film noir theme of how psychotic we would like the sorting out of cassette tapes to look.


Props:

Props wise we will obviously need cassette tapes. I have managed to find 5 at my home but will also probably nip into a charity shop during the Christmas holidays to see if I can get some more for not much money. We will also need the sketches of the people he's seen, probably within a creepy-looking photo frame. Me and Chloe also said we'd like to have some cardboard boxes within the shot that will be taped up saying something to do with what'd be on the tapes inside the box, something like 'tapes me murdering somebody' so the audience gets more of a feel of what sort of flash-forwards he has. We may need some fairy lights or something for some lighting, as we're filming either in a shed or in a loft to give it a dark, derelict, and cold feel. All of these probs are easily accessible and won't be hard to gain before we start filming. 
In the SlideShare below (pages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) are some ideas of the sorts of things we could use.

Costume:

Traditional film noir dress would be a male in a suit of a 1940s style (as this was when film media was most popular and most produced) and a femme fatale character in a red or black laced, exposing and provocative dress. This was so that a male would instantly notice and be attracted to her. 
The Slideshare below (pages 6, 7, 8 and 9) are of possible dress ideas she could wear/wear similar. 
As mine and Chloe's production will be Neo-Noir  we can break these conventions and will for the male character but probably will keep the femme fatale similar to the original style as long as our actress does not mind. Obviously it'd be quite rude to request our actress to wear something she's not comfortable in so our first step would probably be to ask her if she has any red, black or laced dresses and hope she has one of them. 

Our main protagonist, a man who often sees snippets into significant parts of his life, will be slightly crazed by these weird goings on, for this reason his hair may be a bit messy as if he hadn't slept very well. Me and Chloe have also discussed our Everyman wearing a long white coat of a laboratory style but, although this would make him look more mad, I'm not sure how it would fit into the story as if he records his flash-forwards on a cassette tape there're no chemicals or anything messy involved where he may need a white lab coat. However for our opening title sequence you may only see the end of his sleeves handling the tapes. 
In the Slideshare below (pages 10, 11, 12 and 13) are possible items of clothing our Everyman could wear. 

For our femme fatale will be a women who may be seen for a couple of seconds if we have our recording in the opening title sequence of the protagonist being involved in the femme fatale in the snippet of the future he has seen. If we don't have a femme fatale the Film Noir element will be more lost however having one will involve more organisation into when to record who and when're who available for him to film. Also we've planned those who have study periods when we have Media Studies lessons to be the actors and actresses in our production, as these people will also be 16/17 it may be strange having a 16/17 year old looking into his future for him to be falling I love with another 16/17 year old as it would look like he liked people much younger than him or like it was the present; however there are ways of making people look older than they really are (e.g. heavier and more mature make up). Femme Fatales are usually wearing heavy make up involving lots of blacks and reds. 
In the Slideshare below (pages 14, 15, 16 and 17) are possible make up ideas me and Chloe could try and reproduce.


Props and Costume for mine and Chloe's Film Noir OTS from Emily Ventress


Reflective Comment: I am proud of this piece of work, it took a lot of time to write this up but am glad I did so. I know I need to do another write up of what we did actually use for our final thing but this gave us some really nice ideas when it came to filming. The make up of Beth Reid in the photo of our 'femme fatale' and Harry's costume ideas were used. The props of the tapes and the cardboard boxes were also used in our filming in my shed. I am glad I did this piece of work. 

Timeplan of our Opening Title Sequence

Week Beginning:

21st December 2015: I need to write up ideas on props and costume, Chloe Smith needs to write up ideas on location and set (lighting).
28th December 2015: Script written &; messaged Harry Colgan (the actor of our main protagonist) about meeting and possibly start filming?     
4th January 2016: I need to teach Chloe how to use iMovie and do a trail-run, discus what camera angles we would like to use
11th January 2016: I need to do a write up of typography and start thinking about ident, Chloe Smith needs to start thinking about typography 
18th January 2016: Photoshoot with Beth Reid (our femme fatale) and I will edit it to black, white & red. Chloe Smith and I need to film Harry speaking, I need to trail run make-up (tired looking). 
25th January 2016: Have started editing Harry footage. Harry & Chloe need to come round mine to film more scenes with things such as tapes, blades & books
1st February 2016: Be well into editing. Need to film more blades with Harry and do another voiceover of what's happening
8th February 2016: Edit edit edit sound sound sound
15th February 2016: DUE &; HANDED IN




Reflective Comment: This has obviously been worked around but was useful to keep us on track. Also we have been told we also have the half term break (the week beginning the 15th) to work on this as well so that takes the pressure off a little bit but I am proud me and Chloe have kept plodding through it and haven't left everything last minute, this was evident when we were the first in our class to have a rough cut to show our class to see early on what our peers thought. 

Wednesday 9 December 2015

Priest (2011) Extract Sound Analysis

These are the recreated sound effects and how some of them were made.




Reflective Comment:
I am looking forward to continuing with this series of Vlogs and also helps me to keep track of where I'm at. From Ventress Class Vlogs #2 I like the work I did of the Priest work having the red lettering over the top and has opened my eyes into how many sound effects me and Chloe will need to do for our Noir OTS. Now that I've done all the sound effects I needed to do I need to compare with Chloe Smith the other half she's done and start working on our Noir OTS.

Sunday 6 December 2015

Art of the Title, Opening Title Sequence Analysis - Gone Girl (2014)

Gone Girl (2014) Opening Title Sequence: 
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/gone-girl/

Title Design: Neil Kellerhouse
Editor: Kirk Baxter
Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth
Music: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

We've been set a task to analyse an opening title sequence (OTS) from a website called Art of the Title (artofthetitle.com). This website has nearly 600 opening title sequences for the public to see. Most with a detailed analysis of the footage and the background story of it. The OTS I've chose to analyse is Gone Girl (2014), this however, doesn't currently have any analysis on Art of the Title. I have not seen the full film but Gone Girl is an American psychological thriller. It is about a man, Nick Dunne, who is the primary suspect in the sudden disappearance of his wife, Amy Pike. It is David Fincher (the Director's) highest grossing film, fetching a commercial success of over $368 million (£244 million). 

(1.,2. and 3. in SlideShare attached.) The first twenty-seven seconds of the opening title sequence are the logos and names of the film coorperations and companies, saying how they 'present..', these in include 20th Century Fox Film Coorperation and Recency Enterprises which is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company. This is a good thing to start off with as you almost know it'll be a good film if it's got these big names injected into the making of this film. It then goes on on to say 'A David Fincher Film' (4. in SlideShare attached) again giving the audience more reassurance they want to watch this movie more if they know other David Fincher films but alsoslightly unfrosts the glass of what genre the film is as Fincher seems to predominately produce sinister films to films that also make you think such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network and Alien 3. Whilst the text of 'A David Fincher Film' is on the screen the non-diegetic sound of a voice over starts playing. A male voice 'When I think of my wife, I always think of her head, I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying to get answers. The primal questions of any marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?' This is during a large male hand is stroking a young blonde women's head. (5. in SlideShare attached) When he says 'trying to get answers' the women looks up, slight to the right of the camera and remains like this until he's finished his dialogue. (6. in SlideShare attatched).This is a very sinister start as we already know this man must have an obsession with his wife but also imagines himself 'cracking her lovely skull' this is a disturbing thing to say as your wife should be somebody you love and 'cracking her lovely skull and unspooling her brains' would be instantaneous death. He ends the sentence, however, with 'trying to get answers' this indicated she is hiding thing from him but as he sounds like somebody likely to be diagnosed with Psychopathy it is likely he may also have Paranoia and she may really have no answers for him to find. 

(7. in SlideShare attached) The screen then goes on to give us two more names (presumably the main actors) and then tells us to the title of the film on a blue tinted port or bay framed sea scape. (8. in SlideShare attached)After this there is derelict looking parts of a small town that looks likely to have gone into decline without rejuvenation. Each place we see in each shot there's a new name of the cast or crew. After fourteen pictures of fourteen places have been showed we pan up to a village clock face of the (9. in SlideShare attached) time saying five minutes to seven (presumably in the morning based on the colour of sky behind). Then going onto a man (I'd guess in his 30s) standing outside his house after just putting the bins out reading the time, looking around his street and sighing. As he walks back into his house the bottom left of the screen has text saying 
'JULY 5TH
THE MORNING OF'.
The opening title sequence ends on this. (10. in SlideShare attached).
Throughout eerie but forbidding music has been played throughout with a low tempo but quite a high tempo this adds to the tension but also as it's quite quiet makes us an audience feel vulnerable to what's about to happen.
This whole OTS has introduced two characters, the setting, the name of film, those who produced and directed, some of the cast and crew and also given a general feeling or atmosphere of how the film is likely to progress. I think it has been carried out and executed very well. 



Reflective Comment:
I am really proud of this work, it took me quite a long time but I think reads well and is easy to follow of which bit I meant by using the embedded SlideShare of which bit of the opening title sequence I meant. I'm looking forward to using this OTS as inspiration for when we do our real Film Noir styled OTS.

Monday 30 November 2015

Narrative adapting for our Opening Title Sequence (OTS)

Mine and Chloe Smith's Vlog we did in class the other day 
(we've been asked to record our progress as we go along). 
We're making a film noir opening title sequence (OTS). We needed to look at different types of narrative so see how to develop our storyline.




Today we planned our narrative properly thinking about all the things on written on the board:

This is our Vlog of what me and Chloe Smith went through today 


Reflective Comment:
Need to finish writing about thess but the Vlogs are done as they weren't serious so although there are improvements that could be made they will do. 

Wednesday 18 November 2015

Misfits Storymaking

In class we were set a task where we all had a piece of paper and we had to write part of a story, fold the paper over and pass it onto the person next to us. As we were passed the piece of paper one of our teachers (Ms Humpleby) would said 'write the title of the story' or 'describe a character' so we knew what to write. After this the sheet we were left was 'our sheet'. We had to choose somebody on the other side of the classroom so that friendship groups were mixed and chose one of 'our sheets' to 'create' in some way, we could do a comic strip or storyboard of our story but it had to include every point written on our sheet.
The person on the other side of the room I picked was Fabian Harrison. We chose my sheet as mine made the most sense and Fabian's was mixed on both sides of the paper. We initially wanted to film it as a sweded movie but realised this was impractical in the time frame given, one week. We then chose a storyboard and Fabian is currently writing a script ready for us to take pictures on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The story on my sheet was this.

It reads:
 'young, handsome and athletic TV, why does Pinocchio have a big nose? Great Yarmouth Donald the killer whale. Kevin hates cats steals milk. Track, zoom, sqelch, boom. Basically Wendy killed everybody along with Geoffrey Wilkinson.'

Me and Fabian met in a lunch time one day this week, we discussed and planned out the storyline. Fabian has also made a storyboard on his blog which I have based this iMovie on.



Literally seconds after reading this I continued to read Ms Humpleby's blog where she said 'on paper'. I now regret making this.

Reflective Comment: I do regret making this as it took time and that time seemed very unneeded. However it improved my iMovie skills and helped me to work with somebody I don't normally work with. 

Sunday 15 November 2015

Continuity Task

Our Brief
To create a Narrative: a Fairy tale reinvented OR modernised OR Subverted but meeting Film Noir conventions in some way. It also has to include a match on action, an 180 degree rule and the set action: a person opens a door, walks through and across the room, sits and exchanges dialogue with another person.

Planning
My group, me, Chloe Smith and Freya Rudd, quickly came to the decision to use Cinderella as our fairytale as it was one of the few we all knew and felt would be easy to manipulate the original characters around the film noir theme. We planned on using peers in my year as actors, who have free periods whilst we have Media, so they would be available to film in our lessons, also allowing myself, Chloe and Freya to focus on what was asked of us rather than learning lines. From here we wrote down all the characters in Cinderella: Cinderella, the Prince, the Fairy-Godmother, the ugly step-sisters etc. Out of this list we chose who we thought we could use basing it on who was available to act and also thinking about the story and how we could manipulate it around the film noir conventions (e.g who would be the femme fatale?). Once we had decided all of that, we wrote down one to ten on a piece of paper and tried to come up with ten significant points in the story, like a written down story board. We also wrote down possible costume, props and camera angles we could use. After this we shot 'stills' of our ten points to give us an idea of where to film, what camera angles to use, and just to give us more of a realistic idea of what we can do. The stills are below and the written narration I did is on top.

Roles:
Emily Ventress (me): Camera, editor, costume, narrative and props manager.
Chloe Smith: Director, camera assistant, script writer, costume and narrative.
Freya Rudd: Script writer assistant, costume, narrative and actress (Fairy-Godmother).

We used our lesson time to our advantage by filming most of our footage in them. We used many different parts in school and worked around when other classes had their lessons and where (e.g. worked out when there was a P.E class in the hall and when there wasn't). I think we only used one or two lunch times and a couple of hours in a school holiday for me to record 'Cinderella' doing it the voice over. After we had filmed all the clips I did all the editing. The school does have iMovie on their Macs but we used our lessons to film and so we didn't have time at school to edit. I know how to use iMovie and as I have a MacBook at home it seemed the sensible option for me to just do it all at home. However looking back it did take longer than I thought and I could've invited Chloe or Freya over to show them what to do and let them do a bit, however teaching somebody how to use it would've taken up time we didn't really have and we weren't free many of the same days within the half term holiday we had as some of us have outside jobs and some live far away. 
After receiving feedback from our teachers we attempted to 'dub' the scene where Cinderella is about to shoot The Prince as this is a very echoed and muffled scene, the dubbing went well and I managed to edit it so it did look synced with their lips however it didn't sound like that noise was coming from the room they were in, I tried using the Audio Effects in iMovie of Echo Delay, Medium Room, Large Room and Cathedral but the Echo Delay, Large Room and Cathedral made the speech hard to understand so in the end I settled for Medium Room.

What Went Wrong
I think one of the major issues in our production was sound. During Cinderella and her best friend's scene where they're discussing the The Prince coming to town, about 8 table tennis games were going on in the hall in the next room, this has caused a constant sound of ping pong balls bouncing off the tables, the 'reduce background noise' button on iMovie could not correct this either. The background music (Ofelia's dream off Bensound.com, copyright and royalty free) also overtly going loud of quiet frequently as I tried lowering it whilst people were talking but it just sounds very jumpy and doesn't flow very well. Another issue with our final production is the background clutter in the scene where Cinderella is talking to the Fairy-Godmother. We filmed these scenes in the school's studio. We did notice it was in the background so initially we filmed it so you could only see the Fairy-Godmother but still hear Cinderella however as most of hearing is also lip-reading it became hard to understand Eleanor without seeing her. Then on iMovie I tried putting a picture-in-picture of a black box to cover the background but I couldn't cover off of it without cutting off the Fairy-Godmothers back-of-head. Also focusing more on Mise-en-Scène could've helped as Cinderella seems to have sex with socks on which doesn't really add to the stereotypical sexiness of her and Cinderella seems to scrub the floor with her scarf at one point.

What Went Well
I think the general feel of the film feels right for a film noir. I also think we chose actors and characters really well. I like all of the camera angles we used and made a good attempt on some of those we'd never done before (e.g focus pulls). I think lighting went well as although my teacher said she didn't like the shadows I think some of them are really good with Cinderella and the Prince dancing. Also I think the fact we got the whole thing finished is pretty impressive as apart from all the editing, the voice over and the script writing it was all done within school hours. Posting what we had done on social media made a lot more people see it so that was a good idea, I put it on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. On my Facebook post a lot of people commented saying well done and our Youtube video of our final production stands at 176 views.


Overall

Overall I am happy with our final production and feel it was a success. I am proud of what we achieved in the short time frame and I do think it has improved since our previous (and our first) production being a Sweded version of the Insidious 3: Teaser Trailer. Of course there were things we could've improved on but this will be a good learning curve for the next production we will be asked to produce. 

I enjoyed this activity and hope we get to do similar things in the future (maybe with a little extra time!)



Reflective Comment:
My Reflective comment on the actual video(s) are above however my reflective comment on my evaluation would be that I think I did this well, it's not too long but says all I needed to. I could've written more in my conclusion (Overall) but I would've felt I was repeating myself.

Sunday 11 October 2015

Understanding Audiences



Reflective Comment
I would've preferred to do this better but it says what it needs to and looks isn't everything! I like how the theme fits with the context.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Analysing the Codes, Conventions, and Narrative of the Opening Title Sequence of The Dark Knight

Analysing the Codes, Conventions and Narrative of an Opening Title Sequence

Activity 1: Creating a Film Synopsis
Title: The Dark KnightGenre: Action / Neo-Noir
The Dark Knight is the 7th film in the action based Batman movies, a series of movies in which Batman, a fictional superhero, defeats the antagonists and restores peace.
Outline of my Opinion of the Film: The Dark Knight puts a slight dark twist on the usual Batman comics and older movies but still comes with all the big-screen stunts, fighting and excitement - one of 2008's must-see movies.

Activity 2: Freeze Frame
Title: The Dark Knight, Analysing One Frame
In the frozen image I can see two masked men, zip-wiring across sky scrapers above a bustling cross roads. In the image it looks like it's daylight which shows how clear the two are. 

The subject (the two zip-wirers) are very far away from the camera, this makes us see how fast and how far they are going. The camera then goes onto follow the two men across the zip wire and onto the roof they are sliding too. In this shot we can see two men, one in completely black clothing and one in a black top but grey trousers - both men are wearing clown like masks. This makes the two men look suspicious and in the film we know at this point that they're committing a burglary on an American bank. The shot is probably composed like this to covertly show how dangerous the action they're carrying out is and what lengths these two antagonists will go to in order to get what they want. If the shot was composed differently it may not show how risky this situation is.

Activity 3: Structure and Style: Telling a Story to a Viewer
Title: The Dark Knight: Opening Title Sequence: Structure and Style
Camera
Within the opening title sequence of The Dark Knight there is a burglery of a large American bank, as this is a high-action scene involving lots of gunshots and other crimes. Because this is an action-packed scene there are many quick changes of camera angles. A lot of the shots are medium shots of ordinary objects within a bank, such as desks, tills etc. In the same shot the antagonists (masked men) appear out of the desks normally pointing a gun towards innocent bank-workers. There are many close ups, medium shots, long shots and tracking but not a lot of over-the-shoulder shots or focus pulls as there is not a lot of dialog.There are no fancy transitions just normal cutting.

Colour
All of the opening title sequence is consistently in full colour. Baring in mind this film in a neo-noir this is unusual as noir films are normally in black and white as their peak of popularity was between the 1940s and the 1950s where black and white was a much cheaper way of making films, it also simplifies the use of shadows and using light and dark to create atmosphere. A burglary is verisimilitude as it is realistic and is rare, but does happen however the idea of there being a Batman is unrealistic and therefore not verisimilitude. 

Character
Burglars are realistic characters but The Joker is not an impossible character but is quite unlikely to never have been sent to jail. Batman, however, is a very very unrealistic character as superheros are unlikely to be real. Within the opening sequence there are quite a few characters, all male, but all but The Joker die. Mise-En-Scène is used to build character by the costume. All the male burglars are masked and so keeps you guessing who's who but The Joker (the only suited robber) and therefore makes him stand out clearer than the rest. Due to the reputation of Batman you can start to guess the rest of the narrative that Batman is going to set out to stop The Joker once again.

Story/Narrative
I do not identify myself with any of the characters in the opening sequence as they are all very unlike me. The main plot of the opening sequence is the general escalation of the robbing. We see how they get in, how they steal the money and how The Joker gets away in a school bus. It does establish interest into watching further as you want to know how The Joker will be stopped.

Sound
Diagetic sound is the sound where they're shouting at each other, however the non-diagetic sound is the gunshots as they were probably put in afterwards and also amplified to make the scene more exciting. The very start is very quite with a repetitive, tension building instrument which I am going to guess is a violin. As the scene escalates drums kick in once the main shooting part starts this is a sound match to the image on the screen.

Settings
The scene takes place is a busy American city - possibly New-York? Probably to empathise how if things did go badly a lot of people could die. The rest of the scene is inside the bank which is a large, modern multi-story building. It reminds me of London as it's that sort of high business city.

Audience
I think the film is targeted and preferred to males, probably 13-25 kinda age as it's Britishly classified as a 12A meaning if you're under the age of 12 you need to have an adult with you. This satisfies their tastes as it's action-packed with lots of guns, explosions and violence. In my opinion other films they would enjoy would be other superhero films such as Spiderman, Superman etc. I am in the age bracket but feel I am the wrong sex to the be the target or preferred audience for this film.

Titles
Warner Brothers Pictures, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics are all involved in this film however from the clip I was using online it did not show all the distribution and exhibition companies, sound or editing companies, production studios, cast details or production teams. The Typography of Batman is famous for being Batman as it has the Batman logo always with it. A LOT of CGI is used for all the explosions and lorries going over and crashes to buildings etc.

Reflective Comment
This went well I feel I covered all points needed. I made the image larger as Ms Humpleby requested. If you're reading this and you think there's anything I could improve on please comment. :) 

Sunday 4 October 2015

Jobs in the Media

Youtube, talking head voicethread on Jobs Within the Media


Reflective Comment
I am very awkward in this. I'm not used to talking on camera and this was my first time. I waffle on a lot and don't actually talk in a great deal of detail. I could've edited sound better, reducing it when I'm speaking and made some title screens to structure the video out. I will consider all these thing when I film another talking head video. I may refilm this at a later date,

Tuesday 22 September 2015

My 10 Top Movies of All Time

Powered by emaze This is a link to the set work we were given about listing our 10 top movies, I made my on EMaze.

Reflective Comment
I like this as I like the emaze format I used and like the look of the art gallery theme. However I could've written more about each film and put who they're targeted for, and what classification they are. 

Media and Me

This is my Media and Me work made on Prezi



Reflective Comment
I like this Prezi but it does look quite empty, I also made myself sound like a media-aholic but I don't really see how think could've been avoided. Using my own pictures of an iPhone, Netfix, iPod Touch 5th Generation and GTA V could've made it look more real but for convenience reasons I used ones off of the Internet. 

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Film Noir Work

Film Noir & Neo-Noir Prezi with examples:

I didn't like the emaze presentation I did and so did a Prezi which is above to improve it as I find that an easier software to use which also offered more space for me to write. Something on the emaze will be repeated on the Prezi.

Film Noir emaze Presentation
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We were given the task to create still images based on the sheet (the first slide).
This is a stereotyical Noir storyline. These are our still scenes in order of the story on the sheet.

Reflective Comment 
I didn't like the emaze I made as it was difficult to edit and didn't have all the information I wanted on it. I therefore made a Prezi of information about Film Noirs. I like the Prezi.
The photos we took as classwork of a typical Noir story look good and I'm pleased with them, it could've been improved by doing more near walls and surfaces so we got more shadows. There also is no smoke which is a key feature of Film Noirs but this was difficult to find in school obviously.

Tuesday 25 August 2015

Insidious 3 - Sweded


This is my sweded version of the Insidious: Chapter 3, Teaser Trailer. Enjoy!! :)


This is our planning, storyboard, props, script, iMovie, Facebook, Twitter & YouTube evidence of making our Sweded film, Insidious 3 Teaser Trailer.

Reflective Comment
I really enjoyed making this film. I think it turned out well (compared to the original Insidious 3: Teaser Trailer). It could be improved by filming all on the same day so that the lighting doesn't keep changing and also so all members of the group could be there. Also if we had filmed it at night so it was darker and more likely to scare people.

Emaze Presentation on Sweded films

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This is my EMaze Presentation on Sweded films.

Reflective Comment

This is the first ever emaze presentation I made, I don't like it as at the time I didn't know how to choose the different 'Slides' from the 'Gallery'. However since then I've learnt a lot more and also helps me learn and remember a lot about 'Sweded films'.