Log entry 5 – Sophia

This week we have got through a few more scenes. We have now figured out a strong structure for creating the scenes much quicker and more efficiently. I feel like we are speeding through the scenes which is great. I think we need to focus more on our clarity and size of performance so be able to pull it off with conviction. I feel like we are all starting to find it a lot easier to copy the movements and gestures from the film now because we now know how it needs to be done. For example, simple things like trying not to mirror the film are becoming much easier than they were when we first started. I am really enjoying the outcome of the scenes we are fixing together, I think they are slowly feeling more professional and the scene changes are becoming much smoother.

We watched a DVD called ‘Room 237’ which is about all of the conspiracy theories about The Shining. I found quite a lot of the film rubbish because people were digging far to deep into silly little things that for me personally had no relevance. I did find parts of some of the stories quite interesting though. My favourite is the one about the Apollo moon landing, I think it was fairly obvious that Kubrick was trying to get people to notice all of the links in the film to the moon landing. My main thought was the scene in which Danny walks into room 237 wearing the Apollo moon knitted jumper, the key to the door says ‘RooM no 237’ (I think it was that but I will need to double check). When you mix up the letters it says Moon room and that is the part where Danny gets attacked by a woman in the bath, which is apparently his imagination, it was as if he was trying to tell us that it was all imagined and wasn’t real. Because the reality of that happening is very slim. I think we really need to get every detail of that into what we are doing and try and make it fairly obvious that we are doing so. Also the moon is 237000 miles away from the earth. I am finding it difficult writing out my ideas for it because they are all still very vague in my head so I don’t know how to write out my thoughts! The other things I really liked in the film were the use of some of the little props that symbolised a load of other crazy conspiracy’s. A few of them I liked were the red Volkswagen (because in the film it was yellow), the ski and cowboy posters, the porn magazine Jack was reading, baking soda cans and the eagle. I think we should try and get these props to be placed in our version. I think it would be interesting if the audience pick up on what we are trying to do. The film also gave me the idea of using ‘Welcome to the ball’ invitations as actual invitations for our audience and to use for our posters.