The Deathly Hallows Part 2

My Harry Potter film hype has gone into overload as of recently with the end of the film saga approaching quickly, yet still so far away at the same time!

I've always loved the openings of the films because they're always unique. The most recent two did a fantastic job with setting the tone of the films, which are progressively heading in darker territory every minute of their run time.

The Half Blood Prince had a fantastic opening in just the first 30 seconds where it briefly shows the after math of the battle with Voldemort in the ministry. It's effective with it's haunting score, Daniel Radcliffe's vacant expression after his traumatic ordeal and combined with the flashing of camera's riddled with Voldemort's intense battle cry, the whole sequence is quite unsettling and re rigs the franchise into the homestretch of dark things to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHh_ldUF2U

The Deathly Hallows Part One had an equally unsettling and quite scary opening with the decaying Warner Brothers Logo floating out of the black clouds before fading to black. This is followed by a rising clockwork clicking (presumably of the locket), screeching and wilderness which becomes increasingly louder before cutting to the first scenes of the film. It's intense and signifies hostility the world has fallen into and how dark things have become. I find it remarkable that all of this is conveyed in just 30 seconds of screen time yet again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtms4B1pO8

And finally, to get to the point for which this post was made, a screen cap of the opening sequence of the final film has surfaced and it looks like we're yet again to impress with the most foreboding and violent title sequence yet. To put my thoughts into words, the wait for this movie is killing me inside. Feast your eyes:

A New Video

After labouring for a whole 2 separated hours in the evening and a few hours of editing, the fruits of hour crappy labour has finally paid off in a weird and wonderful way.... ENJOY!!

30 Day Music Challenge... IN ONE DAY!

I've been noticing on the ol' social networking website known as Facebook (you might've heard of it...) that many peoples are taking part in the 30 Day Music Challenge. Since that requires a certain amount of persistence (which I don't have) to put something new up every day, I have taken it on myself to list off 30 songs I've been addicted to as of late. They're in no particular order of preference, but I do like some more than others:

1)


I guess this is my favourite at the moment, it's total badassery


2)
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My walk and strut song


3)


Long, melancholic, haunting and sad but really really cool!


4)


Another cool Puscifer song, they need to make MOAR!


5)


If you haven't heard, I have a Battlestar Galactica Obsession


6)


I think everyone owes it to themselves to listen to this, it's friggin' cool


7)


A hilariously weird song about a robot obsessed with cake and death


8)


Silent hill, industrial grungy coolness


9)


Moar silent hillness

10)


Daft Punk's awesome soundtrack to Tron Legacy


11)


A depressing but haunting melody.


12)


Super cool song from Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World


13)


I don't really know what to say about this one...


14)


One to blow your head off your shoulders


15)


Half way there!


16)


I would put this whole soundtrack down, but then there'd be no variety!


17)


Battlestar Galactica's loud, middle eastern cover of All Along the Watchtower


18)


A really nice piece... It makes me think of someone running away from something.... with no sound :P


19)


My favourite piece of music ever created. I want this played at my funeral!


20)


Cool beat and cool song by Korn


21)


Probably one of the most uplifting songs I've ever listened to


22)


Love this one!


23)


This be Fightin' music


24)


Intro song to Season 4 of The Wire, really really groovay


25)


From Mad Men, that ridiculously engaging song at the beginning of every episode!


26)


It just builds and builds onto itself to an explosive ending.


27)


I think we all know this one...


28)


Really strangely uplifting track from Sunshine.


29)


More haunting tracks... I'm all about the haunting today


30)


This one I hold closely to my heart!


And there you have it, 30 songs/tracks/whatever you want to call them from me. I generally listen to movie scores so I really tried this time to find songs with lyrics, forgive me if this doesn't match your pathetic taste!