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My impulse purchase

 I saw this bottle of Absolut vodka today and loved the bottles design! Apparently its only a limited edition 'Absolut London'. With my purchase of the vodka I got a free glass. I wouldnt usually buy branded spirits, I don't usually buy spirits at all actually- but I wanted this glass and bottle so much!

The bottle is designed by 'Gorillaz' artist Jamie Hewlett

a successful day filming with my enthusiastic crew!

Costumes

Here are some of the costumes

in their final stages, but not quite finished

five females for April

Lene Lovich

Julie Delpy

 Tabatha

 Bernadette

of course- Liz Lemon

“God, three weddings in one day, I’m going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. 

My elastic line is gonna get infected again.”

These are some photos I took when checking the locations for my short film 

I am making for my final year at University. 

I took the first 2 photos on a mild afternoon

But I took the other 5 photos on a misty morning. 

The mist really adds to the eerie feeling I wish to create in the film.

The tennis court (above)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

  The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, 2010

  Director: Luc Besson

 

 

Set in Paris with beautiful sets and costumes, this film was a sheer delight.

Witty and silly- Anything goes.

 Foolish detectives circling the city on the trail of an escaped prehistoric bird. 

An absurd display of Egyptian mummies admiring the architecture of Paris

 The smart, feisty and very beautiful Adele on her quest to save her sister

 adopted many different disguises to fool her way into places. 

Adopting the persona of each disguise was most fun to watch

The only thing I disliked about this movie was the over use of special effects in some scenes. 

Especially when Adele mounts the bird, I'm not sure if it was intended to look so unrealistic,

 but this scene felt unpleasantly digital.

 

The prosthetics worked really well to enhance the strange features of the characters. 

Simply making the detectives ears larger made him look more goofy 

and more like a man of another era; almost creating a new kind of species. 

Through watching the special features

 I gained more of an insight into the adaptation of the film. 

The film had been adapted from the comics of Jacques Tardi

 (which I hadn't previously heard of). 

The special features showed the intricate process of making the environment 

resemble that of the comics. No detail was ignored. 

Paris was transported back in time and through costume, 

set and pallette this could all be achieved

I'm so glad I found this film

I loved the mix of Egyptian history with early 20th Century Paris!

The fact an egg in a museum could crack after all these years

Simply from the power of the human mind who awakens the egg

now I will check out the comic it was adapted from by Jacques Tardi,

I don't usually like reading comics, 

but the illustrations of Paris look very nice indeed

Safari

Another practice colouring in photoshop.

 I usually colour by hand or use paints 

but I want to improve colouring in in photoshop, 

it looks very clean. I think if the background had detail, 

the picture would look alot more complete

Slaves of New York

'Slaves of New York'

Director: James Ivory, 1989 

 set in the art scene and full of playful costumes!

 

Even though Bernadette wasn't in a particularly comic role, 

the story was very true to real life. 

Set in the art scene, an exploration of over selling and under selling your talents.

Some of the trendy 'art crowd' were all too familiar. 

 

I’ve always loved the way Bernadette talks. 

Her American high pitched voice that made her Lily St. Regis

 performance so funny and entertaining in the musical 'Annie'.

I watched 'Annie' alot as a child and Lily was always my favourite character-

 even though she was bad!

Then Karen Walker's sister in 'Will and Grace' saw Bernadette as Virginia

Gin- for short

the episode 'Whatever Happened to Baby Gin?' is probably one of my favourite 

Will and Grace episodes. and I am a huge Will and Grace fan!

Partly because it is a parody of the wickedly fun 'Baby Jane' 

and partly because Bernadette Peters gives such a comic performance 

as Karens crippled sister.

I rented 'Slaves of New York' from lovefilm as I wanted to see more films 

with Bernadette Peters. 

 I thought the insecurities Eleanor had in the film were very realistic and a reminder of how important it is to believe in you're own capabilities and trust yourself! 

The writer Tama Janowitz also appeared in the film as Eleanor's friend. 

She would stay in the toilet at parties and was really funny. 

 Eleanors hats she designed were crazy!!