Forrest Gump Review

Synopsis

This film begins with a feather falling to the feet of a guy that only have a low IQ who called Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is sitting at a bus stop in Georgia and he picked up the feather. After that, he told his life story to a woman seated next to him.

His story started with him and his “mama” who teaches him some lesson in life and asked him to choose his destiny bravely. 

I really like what Forrest Gump's mama said.
You never know what's going to happen next second
so treasure every moment that we have:)

 Because of his cripple and his low IQ, Forrest Gump discriminated by his school mates. However, he meets a girl named Jenny who became his best and only friend in his childhood life. Jenny encouraged Forrest to run quickly when his schoolmates bullied him as a result Forrest had discarded his leg bracelet and his had explored ability to run at a lighting speed.

 Forrest accomplished great things in his life because of his special ability. His lighting running speed gets him into college and after his college graduation he enlisted in the army which sent to Vietnam.  He made friend with – Bubba and Dan during his served army service. These two guys changed Forrest’s life. Because of them, Forrest wins medal for his heroism, created a famous fishing fleet, inspired people to jog, starts a ping-pong competition tours, donating to people and meeting the president several times.

However, all of the significant things that Forrest did are all for his childhood sweetheart Jenny. What was Forrest did touched Jenny’s heart, Jenny came back for him and they married and had a child at last.

 The film ends with a father and son waiting for a school bus on little Forrest’s school opening day. As the little Forrest get on the bus, the feather caught on a breeze and drifts skyward.

I think this film had encouraged people to love their life and moved on when the things going bad. The ability is not the most important criteria to have a successful and happy life. Only the courage, love and the determination can make our life better.

Director's Journal week 2

This week we had to divide the job scope for the crew members and start to write a script for the short film.

Firstly, let's talk about the job scope of the short film crew members . Our short film crew members are made up of nearly 10 members. It's important to gather more film crew because it is impossible to produce a short film with a director. A successful movie or short film need to depend on the fully cooperation of the crew. Therefore, we had divided the crew members into different position such as director, camera, lighting, production manager, editorial, sound effects, script writer, storyboard artist etc. In a group, one could learn more and do better when they work well with other people. Therefore, we had agreed during the production meeting that we will helped each other and try our best to produce the short film.

So now we move to the topic of writing script. The duration of the short film is three minutes but if you think that write an interesting and nice script is a easy job then you are wrong!

Oh gosh~our scripts had been rejected by our lecturer few times because the script not interesting and attract one's eyeballs enough therefore we have to try again and again. However I think this is a good experience for us to stimulate our creativity.

Here's some tips that I search from online which help us to write a good script:

1.Formulate a premise. Write a short sentence or phrase of the fundamental concept which drives the plot. This can be something which is the message or idea behind your story, an extremely short plot idea, or something else to give you a goal and unifying idea to work toward.

2. Create an outline or treatment. Before you begin actually writing dialog and script, it might help to create a basic road-map/story of what will happen in your story so you don't get sidetracked and can work out any plot holes or kinks. Sketch out a general plan and envision how events will unfold. This should be told in the third-person.

3. Your characters should drive the action on the stage or screen, so make sure they are interesting and innovative. It may not be necessary for you to fully develop them right away, however, as they tend to take on lives of their own as the script-writing continues.Flesh out your story. Write the entire premise of the play, movie, etc. with lots of details and ideas, paying no mind to style, format, repetition, or anything else that gets in the way of your creative flow. Your finished product should cover the plot, personalities, relationships, character arcs, and a larger point to the story. Sometimes, drawings or diagrams may be used as a temporary storyboard to show to other persons to demonstrate facets of your plot and characters, etc.

4. Trim the story down. Now that you have everything on paper, look for dead weight, weak links, irrelevant details, over-explaining, sidetracking, elements that drag, and anything else that weakens the overall trajectory. Be harsh; just because you fell in love with something you worked on in the exploratory phase doesn’t mean it should survive the revision phase.

Read more: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Script

I hope we can produce a good script by this week becuse we will having reherseal shooting on next week!
Buck up and good luck guys!

Director's Journal week 1

Today is the first class of The Art of Directing. I am looking forward for this class because I am interested in watching movie and I would like to learn how to direct and create a good movie.

After our lecturer Dr. Azlan explain some basic concept of the course, we had been instructed by our lecturer to choose our own group for the further production. There are documentary, PSA, advertising, short film and the promotion video for the media faculty. Lastly, I choose to join to the short film production.The short film production is led by Ariff who had more experience in production. However due to the number of the students, not all the students can have a chance to direct a production. I think it's a pity for me to lose a chance to learn more. Anyway, I hope I may learn something about the way to direct, act and create a good movie in this production. Wish us have a good luck!