London Calling

Some of my friends and I made this film back in December last year for a competition for Film Nation. The brief was to create a film that conveyed the main values of the Olympics (courage, equality, friendship, respect, determination, excellence, inspiration, truce).

Our film documents the day in the life of 17 year old Harold 'Mole' Gordon- Smith as he races around London; making urban playgrounds of the city's iconic buildings and spaces that he climbs, darts and leaps around on.

Winner of the 'Best Fiction
17-19' award

Poster we put up around school to gain
votes

Filming was completed in one day, starting early in the morning and wrapping up towards late in the evening. The fantastic mixture of urban and classical architecture in London made us spoilt for choice when choosing iconic places and areas to film, and we had a lot of fun exploring central looking for interesting parkour spots for Mole to run, swing and jump around on. The editing process was a bit more tedious however, taking us many hours to achieve a film that we were finally happy with.

'Film of the Month Award'

We accomplished the editing process on iMovie, where
 a few ideas had to be scrapped in order for the film to
 appear more professional and be completed in time.
For example we originally had a voice over planned but
lacked the appropriate sound recording gear for the job.

I composed the music for the film using Garage Band.

Mention from Panasonic UK

So far it has won the 'Best Fiction' 17-19' award, and 'Best Film of the Month'. The awards are going to be presented at the British Film Institute by director Mike Leigh, so I am going to make sure I have watched some of his films before the event in July.