Garage Band

In Garageband I made a piece of soundtrack for my short film. I decided to use bass namely for most of the piece, with drums to go in the background. This task was one of the more difficult ones in the long run; I like to listen to music but I'm not that good at composing it. One of my main ideas for using bass was from the song "Little Green Bag," by George Baker.

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Match on Action

Match on Action is a term used in filming when the editor cuts a shot whilst there is something going on, for instance; if someone is in the process of opening a door. They can open the door whilst the camera is in a over shoulder shot, then the scene can be cut, then continued instead in a establishing shot, giving the feeling that the whole process happened in a single motion.

Print: Alex Rider

The Alex Rider series is a set of spy novels written by Anthony Horowitz. Revolving around the life of the reluctant spy Alex Rider, recruited by MI6 after the death of his uncle, as he is forced to undergo several life threatening missions and exploits.

The first book in the series, Stormbreaker, is the foundation of the Alex Rider novels, being something like a prologue to the next seven books. It depicts Alex as a 14 year old orphan, his mother and father dead due to a plane crash. After his uncle, Ian Rider, is murdered in unforseen circumstances, Alex is recruited by the fictional MI6 in order to infiltrate a computer company. In the book, Alex uses several different gadgets, some ingenious to and some house hold objects, in order to evade and infiltrate the company.

Whilst the first book was merely the prologue, and despite leaving several questions unanswered, it was extremely successful, namely in the younger generation. Most reveiws included the term "Its James Bond as a teenager."

Anthony Horrowitz had written several other novels before the Alex Rider series. He is also known to have written the scripts for the Midsummer Murder series for ITV. But in novels, he has written over 50 books, his most popular titles are The Diamond Brothers, and The Power of Five. Most, if not all, of the books published by Anthony have been distributed by Walker Books.

Other products include the game based on Stormbreaker, graphic novels and a book explaining the gadgets throughout the series. The game itself was given poor reviews by IGN and ONM, stating the game "Just isn't good."

Audio Visual: The Green Mile

The Green Mile is a American dram film, based on the novel by Stephen King, and directed by Frank Darabont. The two main characters, Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey, are put through a series of events whilst John is on deathrow, known as the "Green mile."

The film itself was released on December 10th 1999 in cinemas all over the country, being distributed by Warner Bros and Universal Pictures respectively. A teaser trailer was released shortly before the films release. The budget for the film was $6,000,000, the gross revenue being $286,801,388. The film won over 10 awards over a period of two years, and reveiws from major critics such as Rotten Tomatoes were positive. The target audience is for those whom like tearjerker films, or those who have seen previous works by Tom Hanks.

Frank Darabont, the director of the film, had only produced one previous film before the Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption. the recurrence with Frank is that all of his films hadbeen based off of works by Stephen King, his most recent film being The Mist. He had also written several scripts for horror films, such as The Fly 2, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm street, and Frankenstien.