Research - Branchage Film Festival

On the 23rd of September I vised the Spiegeltent where the branchage film festival was being held. Here we heard a talk by the director of the well know urban drama called Kidulthood. The director’s name is Menhaj Heda, he showed us a short film that he had made before he directed Kidulthood called 'Jump Boy'. Jump Boy is a urban drama about a group of boys of about 16years old. Menhaj briefly described how and why he decided to make Jump Boy. After this he then showed us some scenes from Kidulthood, which he then talked about how he filmed it and all the problems he faced such as filming one scene on different days like the scene out side the school were the main character is talking in the car. He was also telling us about his song choice for one of the scenes, ’Just a rascal by Dizzee Rascal' , and how that scene almost becomes a music video as the actions are always choreographed to the music. Before Menhaj had worked on film he had done alot of work for channel 4 music show and so had done alot of work on music videos. This experience was inspirational and made me think about how i was going to make my project.