Anna Hamillas Film Blog

There were a few things I had to change with this film since my cousin Mikayla was exposed to someone with covid at school so I had to rewrite the script to be on zoom. The filming for this film was really crazy, but we all had a lot of fun. This film has really improved acting I feel and also has more angles and variety. We filmed a lot outside and also inside for a little bit. The process of making this film was defiantly interesting since it came from only a small idea from Mikayla while filming our last film. Today we actually filmed everything since our schedules were a bit crazy. We all did really while and we filmed for a long time. It was also such a nice day out so we definitely had a lot of light. I really do like this film a lot and once I also edit it together I think it’s going to look really good. I’m really proud of our work on this film.

Intention Definition & Exploration of Ideas: During this marking period, I continued my theme of stories and histories and making a sequel to my first film. I wanted to build more onto the story and you also get to see more of the characters from the first film. I focused on the time travel element and focusing more on 2020 and what was going on. I also focused on parallel universes and if you look more into their story you see how the original characters are still there at the end of the second film. We also added on some comedy courtesy of my cousin Natalie. I wanted to make this more of an improvement than the first film. I also made sure that we worked on remembering lines more and had a better way of reading lines in case we forgot them. I also paid more attention to clothing and having more content in the film. I do wish I would have had more camera angles, but the camera work was better since we had a tripod and filmed more during the day. We also had more modern years with...

  Introduction: This week’s blog post is about the role of color in creating the right atmosphere. A lot of times in film and shows colors help the audience get an idea of the tone of the film and the emotions of a character. Certain colors in the film are usually associated with a character's feelings and actions. I found this amazing site that explains and gives examples of color used in the film. The primary reason for using color in the film is to make the images colorful, dynamic, and beautiful. But the use of color doesn't just help with the visual storytelling. The use of color in the film also tells us the story and gives us more of an understanding of what a character might want us to think about them and affects how we see them. A good example that I can think of at the top of my head would be the horror movie Suspiria . Both the 1977 version and the recent 2018 version. They both have such an amazing color pallet and also have opposite color chooses. While the 1977...

  Introduction: This week’s blog post is about the perceptions of youngsters in horror films. I thought this would be an interesting film topic since there is a lot of kids in horror films and they make a lot of impact on these films and anything in the horror genre. Kids in horror films can be terrifying and memorable in horror movies or tv shows. Kids increase the fear factor since most people don’t want anything to happen to the kid and make the story even scarier if a kid experiences these supernatural and scary things. According to an article , I found they said that “Kids are an easy tool to use to depict the ongoing battle of good vs. evil in horror movies and TV shows. Children are especially effective here because their interactions with evil highlight the idea of lost innocence, which is something every audience member can relate to.” This is a way that kids are used in the horror genre and makes the movie more interesting to watch. It can be really scary movies or even ...

  Introduction: This week's blog post is about McCarthyism and its influence on the films that came out of Hollywood during that time. McCarthyism is a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most didn’t belong to the Communist Party. This campaign is what brought us the play The Crucible , comparing the Salem Witch Trials to these events. This campaign had a big impact on films at the time since filmmakers were under a lot of pressure from this group to make sure that the movies didn’t hold any communist view or anything like that. A lot of people, in general, were impacted by this campaign especially those involved in art and film since they were in charge of America’s entertainment. Inspiration: I decided to look up films impacted by McCarthyism and films based on the campaign. The way we were Jul...

This film is a special one, my cousin had this really fun idea during our filming of our last film, and we decided to make a film based on the idea. I finished the script and then added the last few finishing touches. I also completed the storyboard for the film. My goal is to do the costumes and make a schedule for filming. The idea was about a trio of serial killers. We didn’t know what it was really about so I just went off a few ideas we had and made a script. Now we are going to not make it graphic in any way so it is school-appropriate. It’s mostly going to focus on the characters' relationships and their stories. My cousin Mikayla is going to be Sally. My other cousin Natalie is going to be Rachel. And then I’m going to be Alice. This film is, I think, going to be the most interesting film I’ve made yet. I can’t wait to see how it goes. The trio in the film is called the sisterhood. We thought it would be a good name since Mikayla and Natalie are sisters and I'm basicall...

  Introduction: This week’s blog post is about: Neorealism and its origins in European Cinema. I was looking at film topics and I thought It would be fun to look back at film theory and neo-realism. Neorealism, also known as structural realism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the most important factor in international relations. Neorealism and realism are also two different topics. Classical realism places emphasis on human and domestic factors and neorealism focuses on the structure of the international system that determines state behavior. Neorealism became famous in 1947 with Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City , when it won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as the first major film produced in Italy after the war. The film and art style isn’t seen much around anymore with the trend really ending in 1952. Inspiration: For this, I decided to look at films produced with this style. Source: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/1...