George Wing Television Blog

Cast Dead Angel:   The same Little girl in the photograph shown in the photograph in scene six. I can imagine her to be played by a 12 year old girl with blonde hair. Someone like Ramona Marquez known for playing Karen in  Outnumbered , or Margaret in  The Kings Speech . When it comes to the angel, she will be using white makeup and will be edited to look ghostly in After Effects. Eddie Dunford:  Eddie is described as :  “youthful, ambitious, libidinous. Elongated shirt collar and kipper tie.”   So the actor would need to be young, preferably early 20s. I would probably cast Thomas Brodie-Sangster, known for his parts in  Nanny McPhee, Stig of the Dump  etc. He would be perfect for this part given his age experience, and visually I can picture him to the part Bill Hadley:  Bill is described as having a  “grey beard, grey eyes”.  This description is relatively open, but given the probable age range of 50+ I woul...

Title: Outnumbered Date: 2007-Present  Writer(s): Andy Hamilton Guy Jenkin Director(s): Andy Hamilton Guy Jenkin Outnumbered is a BBC television sitcom revolving around the hectic lives of a modern nuclear family. I believe in this family, the children are the ones that seem to take control, having the parents, Sue and Pete Brockman running around worrying about them. Although this is a fictional family ,I cant help but think its a reflection of modern family life. I enjoy this genre and show because it pokes fun at modern life. I watch the Brockman's daily struggle People’s lives change dramatically after having children. Outnumbered is supposed to be a comedy but thinking about it it's deeply depressing. The children seem to hold all the power, and the parent lives revolve around the children.  Wrier and director Andy Hamilton believes, it's reassuring to ny parents watching. “We thought we’d celebrate the incompetence of parenthood."  So is there a lot o...

On balance I am very pleased with the final outcome of this unit. I certainly feel my knowledge has improved. I have worked independently with both my idea development, research and filming of my two minute film trailer. This unit was an interesting experience for me because I had never actually written a proper screenplay before. I enjoyed everything from coming up with the idea for my short film to actually producing a trailer for it with locations and crew. Although it wasn't the most enjoyable aspect, I even found it useful filling out a detailed risk assessment. In industry, I realise how valuable and highly regarded they are; most productions are unable to go ahead without a completed risk assessment to ensure the safety of the public, cast and crew. Unfortunately, after filming my trailer and editing it beyond the rough cut, one of my peers accidentally replaced my footage when importing a file to my hard drive. This resulted in the majority of my footage being deleted. I...

Obsession (1976) Director-Bran De Palma Psychological suspense thriller Homage to Hitchcocks Vertigo Starts off establishing visual motifs Camera moves forward, then circular movements with couples dancing. The shot the closes up to the waste of a man  with a gun who turns around. All done in one shot, tracking. De Palma sets up visual motifs with forward momentum tracking shot taking the audience close to the action. Continuation of camera moving. As the dancers move around the camera follows around. De Palma foreshadows by setting up the father and daughter at the start and again at the end. Chekhov's Gun is a narrative literary trade. Anton Chekhov in drawing room of his plays tends to be very dark. Gun in frame, don't put in frame without having any significance. Dolly takes you into ransom note. The film does a great time leap in one sequence. Memorial park. Reminder of opening titles, showing us significance of first opening shot. Dolly shot of insi...