Anna Hamillas Film Blog

  I think this experience with creating a film Study was a good idea for me to do. It was just easier on me, especially with the musical. I thought it was easier since I just had to gather a lot of clips, do research, and then do a voice-over. As of this moment, I only have to do my voice over and then I will be done. I am worried that for a few of the genres I didn’t have enough clips, but if I do I will gather some more examples. I finished editing and the final film is really good, some of the voiceovers don’t exactly sound the best, but I did my best. I think it turned out really good for my first ever film study. I think it was the best thing to do for my last project because of the musical. I really did like finding all the clips since some of these musicals I had never heard of before. All my links and the musicals featured are In the description of the video. I am going to miss film class next year, but I am glad I was able to make these projects and I will defiantly be mak...

  Introduction: This week’s blog post is about the use of special effects makeup in films. I’ve always been interested in special effects makeup for movies and also creatures, anything created from special effects. A show that we used to watch a lot at my dad’s house was called Face-Off where artists would create things using special effects. It was such a cool show and I loved seeing how these things were made. Also the show Jim Henson Creature Shop was amazing. I like a lot of things like that creating things like classic horror creatures to out-of-this-world things. I know that I have talked about special effects before and claymation, but the makeup for movies is another thing that added to movies. It could be even the most simple things that special effects makeup artists will do that we don’t even notice as the audience. Inspiration: For this, I decided to look at famous Syfy makeup artists. Glenn Hetrick-Star Trek: Discovery The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, The Hun...

For my film essay for production, I decided to cut down on some of the information that I was put into the project since the musical was going to pick up practice again. I only kept the musical genres and instead of also doing movie genres since I felt those were self-explanatory. I felt like I was going to feel rushed and I wanted to take my time with it and feel good about the final product. I think I am also going to also go to cut down on some of the examples to make it easier. Since practice for the musical starts up this weekend I wanted to make sure that I finished up the final touches on my script and finalized the playlist of all the clips I need. In the video, some of them are really long, but I of course plan on keeping them shorter, so I can edit everything easier. I should be able to get all of the editing done in time. My goal is to not rush editing, that’s why I decided to cut the information down. Here is the link in case it doesn't work within the blog:   https://y...

Introduction: This week’s blog post is about the comedy genre. I don’t think I’ve done this genre before, and my brother Charlie loves comedy movies. He is obsessed with Adam Sandler and has seen a lot of his movies. Think his obsession with comedy (and Adam Sandler) really started with the movie Big Daddy . He would watch it for a few days in a row. Comedy is really a fun genre of movies and it’s great for big laughs and any type of comedy. Types of comedy are slapstick, parody, spoof, satire, irony, sarcasm, farce, dark comedy, and surrealism. Comedy can be done in a lot of different ways and sometimes can be funny or sometimes fail to make people laugh. There’s a lot that makes a comedy, a comedy.  Inspirations: I think that Charlie was my definite inspiration for this blog post so in honor of him. I decided to find a list of the top 10 comedies. Here is the list: https://www.themanual.com/culture/best-comedy-movies-of-all-time/ A Night at the Opera Blues Brothers Monty Python...

Introduction: This week’s blog post is about the story of Cinderella. It’s not really a film topic or genre, but I decided in honor of our performance of Cinderella this week I would discuss the many version of cinderella. I may not get to all of them but I will do my best. The story of cinderella is one of the most classic fairytales and is probably the most known from Disney and the newest version of the musical. The cinderella movie that was notable for me as a kid, other than the Disney movie and the sequels, was the 1965 movie version. The story of cinderella can be modern-day struggles and problems and doest have to be the classic story but can follow the same tropes and ideas. I decided to start by looking up all stories based on Cinderella and the actual Cinderella story itself. Inspiration: Here is the link (I did the top 10): https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-cinderella-movies/ranker-film   Cinderella (2015) The Princess Diaries  The Princess Diaries 2: Royal En...

  For my last film this year, I decided to make a film essay. I liked what Aaron decided to do so I thought I’d give it a try. I decided to do my film essay on the musical genres and film musicals. Since our performance for Cinderella is coming up next week I thought it would be a fun thing to work on something having to do with musicals. I mostly did the research funny enough at free times I had at practice. I thought it would be motivation for me to get my script done. I am worried about finding all the necessary clips I need, but that can easily be fixed with fewer examples. Below I have the introduction to the film essay introducing the topics. Above I then have my storyboard as an outline for how I will structure my video. I will be discussing the musical genre and then musicals in film.