The Reluctant Blogger

All filmmakers are influenced by other people's ideas and creations. If one was to watch what everyone else was watching, then, in theory, one can only think what everyone else is thinking. This is why individual ideas and viewpoints are so important. A world where everyone has the same opinion would be a boring world indeed. My current influences are as follows: Film Directors: Peter Jackson J. J. Abrams Ridley Scott Georges Melies Tim Burton Photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson Dorothea Lange Joel Robinson Ansel Adams Artists: Oliver Jeffers Alan Lee Beatrix Potter E. H. Shepard Judith Kerr Authors: Jane Austen J. R. R. Tolkien Michael Morpurgo Noel Streatfield Suzanne Collins Agatha Christie Classical Music: The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit Soundtrack (Howard Shore) The Kings Speech Soundtrack (Alexander Desplat) Raindrop Prelude (Frederik Chopin) Dance of the Cygnets (Tchaikovsky) Mars/Jupiter (Hols...

"The Angels are coming and they are fast! Faster than you could ever believe! Don't turn away, don't turn your back and don't blink!" Doctor Who is perhaps one of the best TV shows of all time - 50 years in the running is by no means an easy feat. But one of the best episodes as rated by the fans  is 'Blink' - known to most as the Weeping Angels episode. The Weeping Angels have been considered one of the most scariest enemies of all the Doctor Who villains and monsters,( http://onepopz.com/doctor-whos-top-20-scariest-monsters-get-behind-sofa/4/ ) n ever moving when you look at them, but as soon as you blink or turn away they are at liberty to move. And they are fast. As part of an editing experiment, I was given an idea by Lifeline which was to make a short video edit of the Weeping Angels to the music of ' The Blue Danube ' in an attempt to see if the creatures were still just as scary when accompanied by ridiculously contrasting musi...