Filmmaking // New Years

One of my favorite hobbies right now would have to be filmmaking so I figured I would take some time to talk about it. I recently did a project with a group of friends that in my opinion turned out really great and I wanted to take some time to share what I liked about it.

For one I got a new camera that lets me swap out the lenses on it and that made it a lot of fun. I was able to get some really cool shots with a ultra shallow depth of field like the one without the piano keys lined up. It also let me zoom in without having to stand in really awkward positions. It's also just plain fun to have lots of ways to make a shot. I've always been a fan of having as many choices as possible.

Top Movies // Italian Job

One of my all time favorite movies ever is the Italian Job so I decided to devote a whole blog post to it. I'm going to go through and just talk about some of my favorite aspects of the movie.

Number one: People steal stuff. Let me just be honest and say I just love movies where people steal stuff. I think Oceans 11 and Catch me if You Can. In the Italian job not only do they steal the gold once, but they steal it twice!

Number two: Mini Coopers. In the movie there are four very sweet Mini Coopers. Towards the end there is one great chase scene and we see a vintage Mini earlier on in the film. Also, I suspect that someone involved with the film had a thing for British cars. We see an Aston Martin Vanquish halfway through the film and then again at the end. So this movie covers the car thing better than a number of movies out there.