Serenity

Saw Serenity last weekend but haven't had a chance to blog about it until now.

Enjoyed it a lot and will probably go see it again in Australia.

Some of my favourite aspects of it, as a filmmaker:

• the layers of flashback at the start: voice-over becomes childhood lesson becomes flash-back becomes security video
• the long tracking shot through the ship, introducing all the characters
• the use of hand-held-style camera shake and refocusing during dramatic CGI shots that made it look like news or doco footage.

You can even observe the first point in the comfort of your own home as the first nine minutes are online at Vividas.