National Schools' Week

Today we made our National Schools' week trip to Covent Garden Odeon Cinema to watch an Spanish thriller movie directed by Guillem Morales, called "Julia's Eyes".

The movie was about a woman called Julia, who gradually looses her sight, after finding her blind sister Sara, skeptically being hanged in her house.


She then starts investigations through her sister's death, when she realises being chased by an invisible man, to whom she suspects to be Sara's killer.


Throughout the inspections, she finds out about her sisters' overnight stay with a boyfriend in a hotel. However, despite being unable to find any record of their stay, she is then being given some information about her sister's bandaged eyes during her stay in the hotel by the waiter in the hotel's restaurant. 


Julia, However has been told by doctor that will loose her sight shortly, has found a donor and is undertaking an eye operation which requires a carer to whom she ends up kissing while being cared and trained in Sara's house, and it results in him leaving her house unexpectedly. However she pages him again that night, after being horrifiedly woken up and sensing the invisible man in her house. As she rushes out, she finds herself in neighbours house where she confronts the neighbour's young girl telling her about the invisible man being the killer of her sister Sara. 


After leaving the neighbour house, she finds Ivan -the carer- in the courtyard who has just come to rescue her. As she is frightened to stay there any longer, Ivan takes her to his house where Julia surprisingly confronts the neighbour's young daughter again while Ivan is gone downstairs to bring an spare bed. The girl tells Julia that Ivan is the invisible man and therefore is the killer, as his room's wall are covered by pictures of the twin sisters. 


When Ivan is back, Julia tells him she needs to go to toilet, where she removes her eye's bandages few days early and is regained her sight. However she pretends that the operation has failed in order to secure herself from Ivan while seeing pictures of her and her sister on the wall and the young girl being stabbed. Ivan reveals her lie by asking her to open a box where he has kept the body of the real Ivan -the nurse- when she suddenly screams. 


Finally she can manage to escape by stabbing him and makes her way back to Sara's house where she seeks help from the blind lady next door who then becomes clear that is the killer's mother when knocking Julia down. 


The killer then leaves his mother's house after blinding her again using an injection, taking the Julia's body with him into Sara's house where he tells Julia that he loves her only if she is blind, because blind people can understand the man who lives in shadows and has being ignored by the society. 


The movie ends when the police come for the rescue after Julia had called them, and the killer cuts his throat before being arrested.

At the end of the movie I filmed my teacher and classmates asking their opinions about the "Julia's Eyes" movie.  

The movie overall was good I believe, it had used variety of shots such as close ups and over 

    the shoulders.

 The use of mise en scene had 

   made it even more scary,

 especially with dark lights  and 

 using blood and knife as props. It 

 helped us having a better

 understanding of Horror-Thriller 

 movies and how they are set.

   

Camera Activity

Our first activity with camera was to do an interview with random people. We were given a sheet of paper with an interview questionnaire and a camera to interview and record people.

As it was a group activity, I was working with Ella and Shahida. We shared the duties, one had to hold the camera and film the interviewee, while another person is asking the questions and the third person's directing, then we swap the places. We also had the option to chose our own location and ask our own questions. 

So we started from Kingsland road, going towards Shorditch and Brick lane. The interviewees were mostly people waiting for buses or sitting outside shops and cafes, or just a pedestrian. In Brick Lane we recorded some good shots of the shops with the shopkeepers being interviewed. We found two nice shopkeepers and a photographer to find answers to our questions.

At first I found it quite embarrassing to go to people and ask for interview but after a while I liked to hold the camera and try different angles. We were trying to use variety of angles and shot types, we used high and low angles, and closeup, medium and long shots and sometimes just leaving the camera on while walking down the street, just to see how the footage will look like, we also used the music as background in some of the shots -like the one in trainer shop-. Background picture was also an important factor, as it adds more meaning and effect to the footage. It was a really good practise with the camera, for trying out different camera angles and shots after being taught in the lesson.