Thursday 10 July 2008

Tuesday 8 July 2008

Career Girls

Career Girls is a great film created by Mike Leigh, it shows  a lot of realism of how people can be but then how they can change, during life learn new things in life and work to have a good future. Career Girls is about two women that used to live together and after saying goodbye they meet up, but know they are totally different. Hannah has changed a lot, she is now a business women, has a good job, money and a nice place to live in. Annie has changed as well, she used to have really bad skin problems know this has gone and the women meet up and Annie goes to Hannah ho she is living. All this is compared to what happened before in their lives how they used to, and how they are know. 

The film shows two different stories, it's like the women are telling us what has happened before, we understand how much they have changed and how they used to be. So we look at the realism of what they went through, how they had to live and how they are now.  

Thursday 3 July 2008

Improvisation

 Mike Leigh is a man that has a unique style when producing films. He is most famous for improvisation, whereas other directors work is purely based as script work.  Mike Leigh has a different technique that may interest some actors and actresses. Mike Leigh  gets his cast together and he gives them a character that they need to work on, they have no script but get into the role of what character they will be in the film. 

Mike Leigh works with the characters while they are improvising until they get it wright, so until the true realism comes out they will film the scene. Mike Leigh may get a lot of criticism for not having a script as most directors do, however he wants to catch the true feeling of his characters.