Movie star

remembering each one as if it just happened yesterday. My mind wanders, transporting me through the various memories of my life, the past mingling with the present. Incoherent chatter and loud, shrieking giggles fill the swamped snack bar of the movie theater. As I stand near the end of the line, waiting for a chance to waste money, a large family passes by me with a huge bag of popcorn. The strong scent of butter with a hint of salt reaches my nose, my mouth watering with anticipation. After…

The film Kidulthood uses different types of media techniques to not only make the film effective but also to target the audience. One example of this is sound, sound is used to target the audience which are urbanites, which are people who live in the city or in urban places. The mostly used genre of sound in this film is grime and hip-hop, these types of genres have been used because this music would be what the audience would listen too, therefore it would attract the…

Today, the name Los Angeles has become synonymous with the film industry. However, the city, which goes by the initials LA, has a history going back long before the movies. It is known for a variety of culture and business operations. As a result, it is the most populated city in the state of California. LA has the second highest population in the entire United States, second only to New York City. Spanish and Mexican Roots Spanish governor Felipe de Neve founded Los Angeles in the early 1780s…

Film award ceremonies are a commonplace in New York City. Winter Film Awards, WFA, is among many of the film festivals that New York hosts. WFA is a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization that was created with a special purpose in mind back in 2011. This organization highlights the beauty in diversity as well as women. WFA wanted to be a different kind of awards festival with their unique social and cultural origins. WFA strives to create a social setting where people from all different…

If ever there was film that epitomized rising talent’s ability to vastly improve mediocre material it’s this one. Emily Blunt is quickly becoming one of my favorite actresses working today, she magnificently embodies everything I believe a great actress should. Her comfort zone regarding roles in virtually non-existent, she’s willing to commit whole-heartedly to every role she gets, and her versatility and range allows both of the previous assets to work as remarkably well as they do. ‘Edge of…

in which they’re ultimately only worthy of one viewing – and one viewing only. You watch it and minutes or possibly even a few days later – it fully fades from your memory like a childhood trip to the dentist. The point is it’s rare to witness a movie that stands out in a clustered, often chaotic Hollywood field of endless film productions. But, from time to time, though, a film like Kevin’s Smith Clerks or John Carpenter’s Halloween will land in your lap and reinvigorate your love for cinema…

American attendance began to decline do to the simple fact of Independent filmmakers. Once independent filmmakers where allowed the right to show their films, a whole category of competition began stir the melting pot in the post War era. Hollywood had to actually try to be creative with the work they threw out to people. Hollywood production companies were so used to being on the top of the world with no competition. Films were just being shot out to the world with no thoughts or creativity.…

Following the introduction of sound in the late 1920’s, the film industry flourished, and multiple genres took their place in the forefront of the industry, including gangster, horror, and western films (Dixon & Foster 90-91). One genre of film that started in the early 1930s and became popular until the late 1940s was the “screwball comedy”, which contained elements consisting of comedy and romance (Dixon & Foster 99-100). It was “characterized by social satire, comedic relief through zany,…

food to the movie theater. People are getting kicked out of movie theaters all over, just because they are bringing their own food! This is what I think about it. You save a lot more money if you bring your own snacks. You could get a giant bag of pretzels for the same price as 1 pretzel at the movies. One bag of popcorn could be $5.00 at the movie theater and only $2.00 for a box of popcorn at the grocery store. You could go to a gas station and get candy for .50 so why go to the movie theater…

So, you have a film degree in your possession, you’ve garnered experience and credibility working on numerous small productions and you feel that you are finally ready to make a name for yourself and establish a career in film; but where do you go? It is very likely that your first choice would be Hollywood, California because it is the self-proclaimed “entertainment capital of the world.” But depending on where you live and what your projected cost-of-living budget, coupled with troubling…