First bloody blog!

Well It's probably about time I started this blog thing -on a personal note, I hate blogs. Seeing as this is my first blog and its around the fifth week, I'm just going to give a brief summary of the last few weeks.
Creative Beginings. Well I would be lying if I said I thought it was a useful way in which to be introduced to the Academy. However, there were a select few activities that held some enjoyment and worth -but in the main, I still believe there are far better ways to encourage socializing and the likes.

Since I had originally written all this on paper here it is in 'blog' now.
We were shown the film 'Inside Man' a couple of weeks back so here is what I'd written on that.

Inside Man:

We were shown Inside man in class this week. Although it was certainly a film I had studied in my spare time before, I admittidly had never considered what Andy had asked us to do though.
In the past I had viewed it with the objective of defining and pinpointing camera movements, composition, lighting and sound. All of these things I realise are obviously important aspects of film production but I had never considered 'what the film was about'. This being most probably more important than the former qualities.
Andy had previously told us what a plausible interpretation for the movie 'The Poseidon Adventure'. After which I was rather surprised to learn that it carried a religious reference. Because of this, I had expected to discover a similar abstract, far out meaning to Inside man.
However, I was wrong. When watching the film that the film seemed to be promoting a a very multicultural, multiracial message of respect.
I imagine the primary example of this is Clive Owen's character's principles of respect. Along with the idea of 'respect' the idea of deception was also present. For instance, Christopher Plummer's character is considered to be on the side of 'good' at the beginign of the film. Yet, at the end he is revealed to be quite the opposite. The reverse is true of the character of Dalton Russel. This way of flipping the audiences pressumptions was quite immpressive.
Although this form of film annalysis is not entirely new to me, it was not something that I did with all films I watched.
Trying to decypher the true (or applicable) meaning of a film is what I now find myself doing with most films I watch. Some, I 've found to be easier than others to interprate. Yet, it still remains an insightful challenge.