Simon Elvin Creative Arts Today
Words and images in pursuit of honours
Statement 1. The Awning. Charlie is a young man who lives life without social media. When his friends invite him on a camping holiday with a group of their friends, he is dismayed to find how much they all film and upload everything they do. But what are two of the group doing in the …
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Version 1: Love of money is the root of all evil. Version 2: There are more important things in life than money. Version 3: It’s not always right to do the right thing. Version 1. Bob and his two sons, Lee and Mike, are excavating a house for some clients. They uncover a suitcase full …
Three film premises: Victoria and Abdul; All Is Lost; Lion VICTORIA AND ABDUL. The elderly Queen Victoria, tired and bored of life and irritated by the fawning and infighting of those around her, strikes up a friendship with a young Indian man who is sent to present her with a commemorative coin. As the friendship …
Chosen film: Me Before You (2016) The big idea/the concept. Lou, a young woman looking for work, is offered the job of looking after Will, a rich, young man paralysed in a traffic accident. Despite his hostile behaviour towards her, Lou’s optimistic and positive personality wins him over and the two form a strong bond, …
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BRAINSTORM. 27th August 2019 Personal experience. Starting again, leaving my children behind, being torn emotionally between the need to escape my situation and feeling guilty that they were still there. What should I have done? What other options were available to me? Was I in a frame of mind that was capable of making the …
Exploring what I want to achieve from this course unit: To formalise my analysis of film, so that I can articulate, clearly, what I like, don’t like, understand and think about film To become more familiar with the technicalities of scriptwriting, to free myself to write creatively and originally To understand the role of the …
The Kings Speech – in 250 words. The true story of King George VI and his battle to overcome a crippling stammer. The 2010 film won best picture, best director for Tom Hooper, best writer for David Seidler and best actor in a leading role for Colin Firth, whose performance as a man born into …
I’m coming back to formal study after many years, the reason being that I have spent some years writing stage plays and composing music, but I want to push myself to the next level of knowledge and skill, to improve my practice. I have chosen an Honours Degree in the Creative Arts, specialising in the …
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde.
Simon Elvin Creative Arts Today