Unfortunately, I was sick this week and just like the lecture was unable to attend the workshop.
(As I live out of home I’ve have endless lectures from my mum about eating enough veggies so hopefully news of this illness doesn’t get back to her…)

I’ve decided to compensate with another initiative post! (Yay that means I get to watch movies and tell everyone it’s homework)

Since starting this course I have taken a liking to watching movies and interviews and thinking about what I have learnt in class, it makes me feel like I’m a part of a bigger group of general media-makers out in the big wide world, a sort of “I see what you did there and I understand why you did it” vibe.

Most recently I was watching ‘Friends with Benefits’ (great film) and it stood out the way the movie goes onto a whole new dimension of movie-magic. Like most life-like films, they make you forget you’re watching a film by referencing the real world in their world. For example in ‘Friends with Benefits’ they mention George Clooney, and talk about all the great things about New York City – as it is in the real world. It’s a way to bring the audience with it, for them to be like “I know George Clooney, I get that reference” and “Omg NYC is exactly like that!”. I guess this is a way for film-makers to drag people into the world of their film without them even realising it.

Once that thought struck, I started thinking about the endless lists of films that do this. Every rom-com out there has elements of this phenomenon.