Anna Hamillas Film Blog

Year End Summary Blog Post: What was your favorite part of the class this year? My favorite part of this year was making meeting new people and making new friends. One of my favorite moments from this year was making Sweet Caroline. The overall experience with learning new things with film and getting to work with new people to create amazing projects is an experience that you can never forget. Our class has so many creative people and it was amazing getting to know everyone and getting to learn with them. What have you learned the most about? The most I’ve learned about is how a film really gets to be created. We got to go through what an actual film production would go through and then the editing. Learning to work as a team and getting the scripts, the equipment and the overall idea of the film, shows us how films are created. This year we took what we learned about film history and we got to experience new ways films are created and learning more equipment and the genres of film....

In Hugo, Georges Méliès, who does not want to remember the part of his life where he created fantastic and magical worlds through films, states, “My life has taught me one lesson, Hugo Cabret, and not the one I thought it would. Happy endings only happen in the movies.” Why does Méliès say this? He says this because in his films he’s been able to live a fantasy life and love out his dreams, but in real life he is stuck in one place. He feels like he’s accomplished something so great but he’s not able to feel like what he did doesn't get him an own happy ending. He himself can’t live up to his own legacy and have his own happy ending to his own life  Why does he want to forget about the films he made? He wants to forget because he wants to live his own life and not live his life three his movies. He wants to live out his own fantasy and it’s hard doing that when he’s stuck in the fantasy of his films. When he has these films and this legacy that follows him he can’t live...

Hugo Discussion Questions: Georges Méliès’ films were set in fantastical worlds with magical creatures and adventurous and creative storylines. Hugo focuses on how films can allow you to escape reality and explore a dream-like world. Two quotes from the film explore this concept: Georges Méliès: “If you’ve ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around...this is where they’re made.”  Georges Méliès: “My friends, I address you all tonight as you truly are; wizards, mermaids, travellers, adventurers, magicians... Come and dream with me.” What do these quotes teach us about the connection between the cinema and dreams?: T hese two quotes teach a connection between cinema in dreams through the film Hugo . When you start Hugo, one of the first elements we get to explore is Hugo's dream to finish the automaton that he and his late father had tried to fix together. In these sequences then going back to Hugo’s reality of being stuck at the train station, showing...

The Social Network Reflection Questions:  How could the film appeal to a secondary/other audience who have little interest or experience of Facebook? Consider the setting and the credentials of writer Aaron Sorkin (look him up if you’re not familiar with his work). The film could appeal to a secondary/other audience by showing the origin story to facebook and how its not just about facebook but about Zuckerberg's story of making facebook and the story behind the lawsuit of facebook. The settings also help because it gives a backstory and it goes back and forth to where the idea can from and then actual facebook and how it became so well known and used all over the world. Aaron Sorkin also has experience with stories like Zuckerbergs with movies like Steve Jobs, and bringing their stories to life. Does the film take a stance for or against the existence of Facebook? Does it comment in any way on the impact it has had on the world today? The film takes a stance for the ex...

The Social Network Questions How is the scene humorous? They both are saying facts to each other and trying to outsmart each other. They're also throwing insults at each other. He’s trying to apologize and she's saying that his future won't happen. Both of them are saying things about the other getting upset, then asking if she wants to get food and it's honestly all over the place and that's what makes it funny. It's so random that these two are fighting so ridiculously about things they say to each other. What is unique about the editing and pace of the sequence? The music makes it seem upbeat and the lighting is very warm, it's almost to make it seem like it's supposed to be more of a lighter sequence, but really the scene is more intense. The scene seems to start off slowly and then starts to speed up as they keep going at each other. The editing and scenes mostly focusing on the two characters and its shows the back and forth conversation ...