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FALL 2021

Can You Film With All the Colors of the Wind How Color Affects Film

Filmmaking

The Process From Start to Screen

Mistakes in Film The Natural Parts of Life

Characters in Film A Story About How the Story Is Made

From the Audience’s Eyes

How the Audience Impacts Film

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Letter From The Editors Colin Brown

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Meet the Authors

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The Process of Film Making

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How Color Effects Film

Mistakes Through Film

Emotional Ties and Connections

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Film in The Eyes of The Audience

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Letter From The Editors

Dear Reader,

We are thrilled to be presenting to you our very first publication of Motion Picture, a magazine that dives deep into every aspect of film. We have been laboring to bring forth this piece for what seems like an eternity. There have been many struggles, but none have kept us from reaching the finish line that now sits behind us as we look back on the work we have accomplished.

Our stories are a wide variety which help cover the broad horizon of the film world. The stories range from Marvel v.s. DC to how color effects film. With every story in our magazine, comes an ASF. These are our favorite parts. We have put weeks into designing each small graphic and detail that it feels so nice to look back on it all together.

Over the course of the last few months, there have been many bumps in the road. We struggled most on being able to represent all aspects of film, and to encompass such a large, influential part of everyday life. Film is such an important part of cultural aspects, education, and entertainment.

Starting from blank white screens, we constructed entire articles filled to the brim with high-quality graphics and top-tier stories, designed to be fun to read and easy to look at. Every single graphic was designed from scratch by us; every story was written word for word.

After all of our hard work, we are proud to bring you our magazine.

Signed, The Motion Picture Team.

Meet The Authors Colin Brown

Carys DeCrane

Aurelie Sulter

Nidhi Allaboyina

Fiona Kleeman

Colin Brown is the Layout Editor for the entire group.

He is a freshman at LASA High School and enjoys spending time with his pals playing soccer and video games. On weekends, he enjoys getting together with his buddies and hanging out. Colin double-checked that everything was in the right place on the pages for this publication. He also made certain that everyone obeyed the rules and stayed within the margins. He aspires to avoid killing himself in the future by doing something idiotic with his pals.

Carys DeCrane is the ASF editor for Motion Picture.

This means she offers assistance and advice to make the teams ASF appealing and cohesive. She is a freshman at LASA High School that enjoys playing volleyball and is a true perfectionist. When not doing school or volleyball she spends her time having coffee with friends, shopping, or just hanging out. She aspires to use the skills she’s learned making this magazine in future endeavors.

Aurelie Sulter, the photograph editor of Motion Picture, is a freshman at LASA High School. She has been fencing for about 3 years and is frequently competing in national rated tournaments. Before she became a fencer she ran track and did ballet. Aurelie’s job was to make sure the photos and graphics looked nice and fit well with the magazine. She is excited for this school year because she is taking a filmmaking class where she will eventually write and direct a short film. Aurelie is currently writing a book and has a goal to have it published by the end of 2022.

Nidhi Allaboyina is the copy editor for the magazine, so she was in charge of the text, checking for any typos and errors in Motion Picture. She is a freshman who attends LASA High School who enjoys cooking, hanging out with her friends and watching TV in her free time. She aspires to become an animator in the future.

Fiona Kleeman is the ​photo editor for Motion Picture.

This means she adjusts all of the photos to perfection and makes sure they look just right. She is a freshman at LASA High School that enjoys the creativity that comes with making magazines. When not doing schoolwork, she enjoys baking treats, going to the skate park, and making small films. She got into filmmaking by making fake movie trailers with friends. Making all of the graphics was Fiona’s favorite part of the magazine process.

Can You Film With All the Colors of the How Color Affects Film

By Carys DeCrane

Graphics by Sofi Giannini

Graphics by Carys DeCrane

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olor is a prominent part of our day to day lives.

From what clothes people decide to wear, to what they eat, it all at least partially depends on color. Filmmakers use color to create emphasis, emotion, and to give you a clue to what type of character or scene is taking place. Color can also foreshadow something that may be to come later in the film, or have an underlying meaning that adds another level to the feature.

“You need to be able to tell a story and that all comes down to lighting” -Budro Partida, Cinematorgraper Dive deeper into the emotional and cultural ties people have to color, and the physical and physiological reactions our body has to different hues.

Budro Partida, a local Austin producer, cinematographer, and director, believes that color is a vital component of creating any film.

“Whether it be a documentary, a short film, music video, or even a commercial, color is always one of the key components.”

Partida uses color to create emotional ties. In one movie he created, a zombie movie, he used a red filter to make a scene seem chaotic and frightening.

Filmmakers create all these different ways for color to be utilized and people will never even know it.

Color is typically depicted on a wheel, this wheel is made of the three primary colors evenly spaced apart, secondary colors, equally Budro Partida, producer, director, and cinematographer in between the Photo provided by Budro Partida primary, and tertiary, separating create emphasis, or make things the primary and secondary colors. stand out. A good example of Complementary colors are the one this may be a blue night sky, and that sit directly across from each blue tinted shadows, then a bright other on glowing orange moon. the

Color can also be utilized to bring emotion, or more broadly, mood. Brian Monroe, a videographer and director of photography, believes that color is a critical part of film, and our lives in general. For example, red can convey danger, chaos, and fear, but it can also convey love and romance.

It all depends on how the videographer captures the moment, and the slightest change color in tint can completely offset the wheel, a good mood being conveyed. example of this is blue and orange.

“It’s a funny thing, because Typically complementary colors our job is to make sure the viewer tend to be one warm color, and feels what we want them to feel, one cool color. Filmmakers use without them even knowing what complementary colors and other we’re doing,” Monroe says. color scheme devices in order to

“Color helps tell a story, it creates mood” -Budro Partida, Cinematorgrapher

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Color in a film is a curious thing, it takes an incredible amount of work, and is very difficult to do well. Hours of thought and labor is put into figuring out the perfect lighting and tint. All of this work, for a viewer to never even notice.

So why do it? Why bother if the audience, the consumer can’t even appreciate the beauty. The reason is, the viewer will always see if it’s done poorly. They will notice every time if the lighting is slightly off, whether it be consciously or subconscious. They might look at it and for a reason beyond them, just dislike it. Color is the unrecognised soldier, you notice when he’s gone, but forget him when he’s there. It’s not that color in film has no effect on the audience, they feel it. They see warm happy tints, and they know it’s a rom-com. Color is a wonderful thing that will forever

remain in the shadows, barely in view.

Films are created to make you feel something, whether that be love, fear, happiness, sadness,

“Color is everything to me, color conveys a mood, an emotion” -Brian Monnon, Director of Photography or even anger. Film is a tool, a weapon if used a certain way. A large way filmmakers connect to the audience on an emotional level

Photo provided by Budro Partida

Budro Partida, a producer, director, and cinemetographer

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is through color. Award winning director, cinematographer, and producer, Jeff Sandman, says,

“I want to evoke a certain feeling, color does that”.

Sandman says for example the color red can be used to create a sense of sadness, peace, cold, or life, depending on how you utilize it.

Studies have shown that not only does color create an emotional reaction, but it can even create a physical reaction within your body.

We all know that the color red usually reminds us of danger. But what few people know is that the color red actually causes changes in your breathing pattern, pulse, blood pressure, and muscle tension.

Green is also another color that causes dramatic physical reactions to your body. Red makes us have an increase in blood pressure and adrenaline, while green does the exact opposite. Even though some people don’t consciously associate these things with these colors, our body still subconsciously tells itself how to react.

Color plays a huge role in our culture, when making a film, especially a historic film. You have to be very conscientious of your color usage. For example, typically you would stage a king, or someone you want to appear noble, in red and gold because that is what our society thinks of when they see royalty. That’s why Iron Man’s suit is red and gold, he’s portrayed as a very flashy and wealthy person.

However if you’re creating a historical film that takes place in Ancient Rome, you might want to instead put the royalty in purple, since that was a color reserved for nobility.

This image of Pocahontas is the same except for one thing, they all have different tints, and with these changes in tint, also comes changes in mood.

The dark blue tint makes you feel that she is peaceful and serene, the darker tint eludes to also maybe a sense of quiet.

This bright colorful tint makes the scene feel lighthearted, happy, maybe even excited.

Even though you can’t see her face in this image, you still can understand the mood based on the color usage. By using bright, vibrant colors, the mood lightens.

Graphics by Carys DeCrane

As has been discussed previously, red can mean many things, and affects the brain the most, so this is probably a very important, dramatic, scene in the movie. This scene may be a turning point in the movie, or a time in which a lot of fast paced, heart-racing things are happening.

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Red Balloons to Red Roses What do Colors Mean to You?

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What’s Your Favorite Color?

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Filmmaking

The Process From Start to Screen

By Fiona Kleeman

Sasha Rainbow (center) is filming her award winning film ‘Kamali’ with Kamali (in pink) amd her mother (left) in India.

Photo provided by Sasha Rainbow

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When watching a film on the screen, people don’t usually think of the months or years of work that are put into it. It starts long before, with just an idea, and weaves through a long line of people with different skills just to make it to the big screen.

There are many layers to making films. The main six are script development, budgeting and financing, pre-production, production, post-production, and marketing and distribution.

When in the production stage, it can be a bit stressful. Jeff McQuitty, a writer, director, and cinematographer, said it’s a good idea to keep a clear vision in mind.

“The most important thing to keep in mind is the story that you’re telling,” McQuitty said. “It’s very easy to get lost in film techniques or trying to get a cool shot or the logistics of a production. And a lot of times that takes away from the overall vision of what the story that you’re telling is.”

Only a small amount of things happening on set involve camera angles, despite the fact that they are incredibly important in order to make a film (insert fancy word of your choice here) Cinematographers handle all things dealing with camera behind the scenes.

“I love cinematography because it marries the world of creativity and technical skills,” McQuitty said. “You’re right there with the director creating, helping him or her create their vision for the film or the project, and you’re in it with them and that’s really exciting and really stimulating creatively, but then you Motion Picture

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also have to be very hands on with the technical aspects cameras, lenses and lighting, and camera movement.”

Tying in with camera angles are the feelings that accompany them. Alonso J Lujan, a director, cinematographer and camera operator, knows all about the topic.

“You can interpret that in Photo provided by Jeff McQuitty your lighting in your filming whatever you Director Jeff McQuitty (behind camera) films a clip with his cast and crew. want,” Lujan said, mysterious.” everything aligned in order to “Maybe there’s a character that you

For many filmmakers, happen,” Rainbow said. “And don’t know much about the serious being behind the camera is one of you have to use a lot of your character, and you kind of keep their favorite parts, just like Sasha imagination, because everything him in the shadows. Right? And Rainbow, a director who came into always changes. Whether you’re whereas we keep another character the film world through fashion. doing a documentary, or a script, more, more well lit, because

“You know, there’s a lot of something scripted. So I love when that other character represents preparation that goes into getting you’re actually in the moment, somebody, somebody who’s not as Sasha Rainbow (right center) with her crew.

Photo provided by Sasha Rainbow

you’re pulling energy off everyone around you, you’re really living the experience.”

To get to the production stage, you have to start at the very beginning with just an idea. This can blossom into pieces of art. Lujan traces his film inspirations to everyday life.

“I think inspiration comes from, it can come from other art, but

“Every choice makes an impact on what the audience feels and how they react to the story” -Jeff McQuitty,

writer, director, and cinematographer

Graphic provided by Carys DeCrane

Photo provided by Sasha Rainbow

Sasha Rainbow (left) checks on the shot of the film she is making. just from life in general,” Lujan said.

“Sometimes certain elements or factors just kind of collide and kind of create some sort of a spark.”

After the idea is flourishing in your mind, you get started with a script.

McQuitty said it is necessary to have a good script in order for your

film to be a success.

“What makes a successful production is pre-production, you have to prep so much to make sure that on the day that you’re going to get what you want, and get what you need,” McQuitty said. “And it starts primarily with the scripts. If

you don’t have a really rock solid script, you know that that’s kind of game over from there. So I think that’s the first thing is getting the script polished and ready.”

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The Process Of Film Making

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Pre-production

This step involves everything plan wise. You sort out how your production stage will run.

You organise everything you need beforehand including costumes, getting props, assigning roles to actors, film locations, and getting a crew.

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Post-production

This step is mainly editing and making sure everything is how you want it. The color and sound are adjusted to your liking. You can get specialists to help you with this if your budget allows it.

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The budgeting and financing step is all about money and making sure you have enough. This step is crucial if you want a complete film or you have a chance of running out of money. Another aspect is the equipment price and making sure you have enough for that.

This is the first step to creating a masterpiece. Script development starts with brainstorming and ends with a full script of your movie/ film. This takes a long time, but once you are done, the feeling is super rewarding.

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Budgeting and Financing

Production

Time to get filming!

Production is the part where you actually shoot your film.

After all this hard work and planning, things are going smoothly as you direct and make sure everything goes accordingly. This step can take days to months.

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Marketing and Distribution

This is the final stage until the process is complete. This step involves getting your film widespread and making others want to watch it. You would make advertisements and put them anywhere your budget allows it. You hope it pays off and your film becomes a big hit.

Movie Theaters In The USA Graphics By Fiona Kleeman

Top Grossing Movies of 2020 Sourced: the-numbers.com

So many people visit the movie theaters every year but don’t know too much about them. Here are some fun facts about recent statistics as well as a step by step process explaining how a movie is made and brought to the theater.

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Bad Boys For Life $204,417,855

1917 $157,901,466

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s e k a Mist i n Film

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he majority of film occupations are high-pressure, fast-paced, and exhilarating. This is why they are so appealing to such a vast audience. Most roles in the film industry go unnoticed because most people only see and enjoy the final product, but there is, in reality, a lot going on behind the scenes of movies, television shows, and music videos. Some might believe that these people are perfect and make few mistakes, but it turns out that mistakes are a natural part of their everyday life.

Aaron Spigner plays an important role in film. “I wear so many hats. I am a Director of Photography locally here in Birmingham. I am also a Producer, a Director, then for ESPN, I run instant replay for all their sporting events. That doesn’t mean that I’m at every sporting event, it just means I work on every kind of sport that they produce. And so essentially, what replay does is the normal stuff like you see on TV that replays, but then we also are putting together packages and telling stories. I try to describe it as like...super high speed, video editing. When we’re not doing replays, we’re building packages and showing highlights or putting together videos to music.”

Spigner talked about his experience making mistakes and how he coped with them. “There’s pressure there. But I don’t, I don’t think it’s ever one of those things where, like, it builds up.

Like for me, it’s just fuel for the fire. Right?

King Photo courtisy of Sean It’s not something that I come home and I’m like, ‘Hey, you’re not gonna believe the day I had’’ because, for me, that’s just part of the job, it’s not a day I had, it’s just a day I live. And again, I thrive off of Motion Picture

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it. Now not everybody’s built to thrive off of pressure, some people crack underneath it. Some people rather do things on their own, so they don’t have to deal with stress or any of that. But for me, I just enjoy it. So the pressure, the stress, is just fuel for the fire that’s constantly burning when I’m working.”

Spigner said that people made mistakes, but they were small enough that they could be cleaned up relatively quickly. Big mistakes were very rare, but they did happen. “One time I was doing an MLB game for the Braves. It was The Open, which is like a big deal. For shows, whenever you watch sports shows, whenever you watch, like an actual sporting event, they kind of break it down into segments. And the first segment is called The Open.

And it’s the most important one because it kind of sets the scene for the rest of the show. And a lot of stuff is pre-produced. So when

“Everything has to be exactly perfect” - Aaron Spigner, Cinematographer you’re watching it at home, it looks like all this stuff is life. But in reality, everything’s already been recorded. And it’s playing off of a replay box, something I would be playing right. And so like you’re watching it, and you see a guy in the outfield, warming up, he’s

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throwing the ball back and back and forth. But he’s actually in the dugout getting ready to come out on the field for the first inning. But at home, you think he’s warming up just because that’s what you see. So I had queued up a play.

And we did this thing called rehearsal. And it happens at the beginning, that we kind of run through the open to make sure everybody is good to go, right?

Like it’s gonna play from red, it’s gonna play from blue. That’s what our boxes are called red, blue, a, b, x, y. And I was red. And it was gonna play from my box. Oh, man, this was a bad game for me.

And, we went through the run through and everything was great, everybody’s good. So they started talking to me wanting me to build something else for another part of the show. And so I was sort of building well then when they came back to me. I had to play out. But I hadn’t recruited right. It was at the end of the train. It was at the end of the clip. So it looked like I had it queued up because it’s the same guy on the field. But when

they came to me, and I rolled it, I rolled it and he starts to throw the ball and then he froze and that was the end of the clip. So like you’re watching at home and you see him, like, take his hand back to throw it, and then he stops.

And it’s just frozen on air. Oh, man, that was one of those we’re not mad at you were just very disappointed moments. that was a bad one. And then that kind of set the tone and I think I messed up a few more times in that show. But normally I don’t ever mess up.”

Shaun King, the Assistant Director of the Netflix series Queer Eye, has a different view. “I was pre-med way back in college.

And taking organic chemistry was not for me. And I’ve always wanted to be outside and doing things, you know, I’m not one to be seated behind a desk. I just can’t do it as a professional career.

And so the University of South Alabama was where I went and I had a television program. And so I’m enrolled in that and that’s what I followed. And then when I graduated college, I worked in Mobile, Alabama for about

three years, doing corporate industrial sorts of videos, like safety training videos, you know, things like celebration videos for FedEx, just various things, but it wasn’t very fulfilling and satisfying. And I always wanted to give a shot at movies and just, you know, see what I could do.

So I came to New York, and there was a website I still think it’s around called Mandy Calm.

thought I wanted to be a director.

But an assistant director came up to me one day and this is probably about two months into me being a PA and said you should be an AD. And I was like Why? And they said it is because well you can handle things. You process things very logistically, and we can yell at you all day and you don’t get flustered. I was like oh, okay, so I went that route.”

Most of them agreed that the stress these jobs produce fuels the people working them.

“And so like that pressure to perform, like Photo provided by Aaron Spigner fuels me, like Aaron Spigner walks the field bef I am inspired. ore the beginning of the 2019 NCAA Like I really, National Championship And basically, it’s I really love you’re working for free. So for it.” Spigner explains. However, six months, I just worked for Kyrsten McMurray, the producer free. I did pretty much every of Boyhood, had a different position you can imagine on a opinion about what makes the film set, just learning the ropes. film industry fun to work in. “It’s And ultimately I met somebody introduced me to some really and I was hired as a production cool people, just really earnest, assistant. And a PA in the film creative, hardworking people. business, a PA, or a production The ones that you don’t see on assistant is the lowest of the low the other side of the camera, like you get paid the least, but doing really interesting work, you do the most work. The first like making props and costumes, people in, but they’re the last and scouting locations, there are people out. And the benefit of so many interesting roles to be being a PA though is it lets you had on a film or TV show set. see all the other departments on Not even just the production a film set. And from there, you phase, but the pre-production can choose the route that you phase. And then the postwant to go now. Originally I production phase,

it’s all different jobs and different people that you’re interacting with. And I love all the people, I mean, I, I have such a network, a wide network of interesting people.

And that’s my favorite thing is just getting to meet and know so many different personality types. There have been some, you know, crazy, difficult, challenging personalities to work with. But there are also really awesome people that you’re just like, wow, I wouldn’t have met you otherwise. So that’s the best part. Not that there aren’t creative people in other more white-collar jobs, they’re just not encouraged to express themselves the same way as they were coming up in a creative industry. I just can’t imagine being in a cubicle working.

It’s just not for me, especially since I never came from that I think it would be quite a shock to go from working at a real production company to a stiff, nine-to-five job in a cubicle.”

Whether you enjoy meeting new people or working through stressful situations, everyone in the film industry has something they enjoy. These people are as close as it gets to perfect, but they do make mistakes. What makes them so special is how they handle it.

They don’t get flustered and are able to stay calm. Do you think you have what it takes to work in the film industry?

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Characters in film A Story of How the Story is Made.

By: Aurelie Sulter

The characters you see on screen take time and preparation to create. It’s easy to miss the small details that go into making any given character so lovable when seen on the big screen.. It’s not just the buttered popcorn and dimly lit movie theater that make movies so special. Making words on a script into 3d, emotional, and real characters takes tedious time and work. The people who know about this process of story creating and performing the most are the ones doing it.

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Photo provided by Joshua Hess

There is an obvious difference between older movies and more modern movies, but is one better than the other?. David Melvin thinks there are pros and cons to both.

“There are principles and traditions that come from the past that we all should pay attention to,” Melvin said, “But there are a lot of things that are left over from the past that I don’t necessarily know are essential to where we are today.”

Melvin is a screenwriter, producer, and director currently working on his feature film called “Walkabout.” He has worked with people like Greg Berlanti and Ming Na in his career of screenwriting.

He explains that it is important

define what this person wants and how they don’t get it.”

He explains. Melvin says that in some ways character

Melvin breaks down what a development is the whole idea of screenplay is, “a lot of the structure screenwriting, without character development you don’t have a story. is based simply on the fact that that font and that structure, loosely Melvin compares it to playing sports. one page, equals one minute of

“It’s like saying, ‘How much screen time. when you see a 112 does practice matter? well if you page script, that’s an hour and 52 minutes, that they always can gauge don’t train, even if you’re naturally talented, how are you going to do time based on pages.” it?’”

Melvin explains character

These principles can be used development to be a vital part of in many situations, whether he is screenwriting, many don’t know writing anywhere from a romance of the process of actual character development and many more aren’t to a comedy character development is always an essential step in familiar with the phrase. creating the perfect film.

“You keep digging away at the layers, and you keep trying to to know where screenwriting and directing started from but some old techniques, like the formatting of screenplays are becoming outdated.

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The Actors

Some have trouble explaining their jobs to others, but Allison-Wolfe has it down.

“I would explain it the way I explained to my daughter who’s five, and I play pretend for a living. I take a character that I read in the story, or in the script, and I bring them to life on the screen,” Wolfe said.

Wolfe is an actor, writer and director of her new movie The First Kiss.

She learned that she wanted to work in the film business when she saw the credits scene of the movie Transformers and thought, “I want to do that.”

This led Wolfe to pursue her goal of being on the screen. She has been featured on Shark Week, The Book of John Grey, and Bonnie and Clyde. Wolfe believes that one of the most important parts of making a character appear real on screen is by creating a backstory.

“You really know this character inside out. You

Photo provided by Joshua Hess

Before a scene from Allison Wolfe’s movie “The First Kiss.”

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know how they would sip a cup of tea. You know how they would enter a room. You know how they would talk to someone they hate. It’s what makes your performance so much more genuine.”

When playing the character Joey Fields, Wolfe really had to focus on how well she knew her character.

A director won’t always have a detailed backstory for a chracter so it is up to the actor to create one in order to display relatable emotions.

Photo provided by Gail Cronaure

“I have fantasies about playing that kick butt older woman who rides a motorcycle and shoots guns and does all that kind of stuff, that’d be sick, and I certainly am, salty enough to do that.” says Gail Cronaure, who works in academic theater, film, television, and is the Vice President of Women in Film Dallas.

She points out that from a young age she as playing the older characters like the old woman, or crazy old aunt. She has noticed a certain difference in how a character is portrayed

when it comes to the older male role, versus the older woman role. Male characters tend to get the badass oldman role, while when it is a woman who is old, she is seen as fragile and diseased.

“I think part of that is we need to have women who are writing those stories.”

Cronaure hopes that women will become more and more a part of screenwriting and filmmaking in general, in order to show more power in feminine

roles. Cronaure enjoys watching the films that can create a whole new world in front of her. She mentions that when watching these scifi-like movies she is impressed by the strong feminane roles who are writing, directing, and acting in the films.

Cornaure focuses first on the script before auditioning for any part, in order to make sure she can optimize her knowledge of the written character. She makes sure to read over all of the characters in the script even if she is only rehearsing for one.

She says it helps her get a sense of the story through the script.

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W’ell Be Right Back

A survey sent to over 70 highschool students reveals teenagers favorite sitcoms, and form of intertainment.

Graphics by: Aurelie Sulter

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29% 23%

Friends Black-ish

8%

8%

The Good Place New Girl Other

1%

What Do Teens Think?

“Movies have a lot of variety and aren’t a big commitment.”

“A

movie or documentary is just a quick story that rushes the plot, but with a show they can drag on a storyline for a long time and have more opportunities to make the show more interesting.” says Ryan Kellar, a candidate from our survey.

This diagram shows the percentage of people who enjoy movies,

“I can binge T.V shows and they entertain me.”

What is Prefered in Entertainment?

TV shows, short films, and documentaries.

A servey was sent

MOVIES 30%

to about 70 people

DOCUMENTAIRES

1%

and this is the data that came from it. suprizingly the majority of people enjoy TV shows over movie, documentaris, and short films.

SHORT FILMS

4%

TV SHOWS 64%

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How the Audience Impacts Film

By Nidhi Allaboyina

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The minute film producers release a film, people immediately sit on their couch and switch on the TV. People buy movie theater tickets and start filing into the seats. This is the purpose of films, for the audience.

Understanding the film industry and the audience is

“I think the audience is as much a part of filmmaking as the screenplay and the writers you know, because without an audience, it doesn’t exist.”

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turn movies influence society by changes in representations, challenging audience’s morals and changing viewers’ opinions.

In the time of Shakespeare and even ancient Greece, there was a certain element of responsiveness in forms of entertainment (in this case, theatre) - if the audience

- Ryan Jay, Film Critic important to producers. The film industry has power yet it needs to listen and to respond to audiences, as supply and demand is an interactive process. Recognising and appealing to the target audience is incredibly important as ultimately they will be the types of people who will be watching the film. The film industry faces a continuous task of bringing a product to life to an audience. A film achieves maximum success when the audience considers the film to be “good”. Society is reflected in movies and in

didn’t like it enough to show up, the performance could not go on. They generate the demand that keeps productions going. From the moment of a film’s conception, the audience plays a powerful role in its content. After all, the audience is the consumer of the film. Therefore, it’s logical that some of the same rules that govern supply and demand for any other product still apply. The audience’s

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role as the consumer is a main focus of the director and the producer as they develop the plot, characters, and dialogue. They have to consider questions like “is the story being told relatable to the audience?”, “how will the audience react to the various characters in the film?” and many more. For example, producers will consider their audience during casting. They think about whether the actor is suited to the part along with whether or not certain actors will attract an audience to the performance.

Film doesn’t have a “correct” definition. This is what

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Nani Li Yang directs her first feature film. professionals said when asked to define film in their own words.

Here is what Nick and Joseph, film critics from Fish Jelly Film Reviews, said on the matter.

“I just said that it was

Nani Li Yang talks with the cameramen about the raw clips.

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storytelling through motion picture,” said Joseph, a film critic. “I think film to me is a visual language enabling the most universal ability to relay all aspects of the human experience and or the human condition.” Nick added.

“For me, film, movies are entertainment, escapism and educational.” said film critic Ryan Jay. “I think film is a combination of all the arts that you can imagine.” said film director and producer Nani Li Yang, who recently released her first feature film, Beneath the Banyan Tree.

Photo provided by Yao Yu The main aspect that

is taken into consideration when making a film is the audience.

“Film is a business,” Joseph explained. “So getting as many butts in seats, probably the most important thing.

Whatever will get audiences into seats as what studios pander to.”

“I think there’s the fallacy that box office means a film is good.

But just because there’s an interest

market and we have to say that kind of trying to figure out what the audience wants. And that’s just how the market works. And then they trying to produce more stuff to face audience interest. But at the same time, I feel, to some degree, the good films, the very good ones, that was doing something that more of the filmmaker itself is coming from, like the

sometimes audience not even know that they need that.” said Yang, speaking from her experience with her film.

Jay explained how he thought that the audience is as important as anything else in the process of filmmaking.

“I think the audience is as much a part of filmmaking as the screenplay and the writers

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Ryan Jay talks to interiews about his critic career. enough for someone to see a film doesn’t mean they come away liking it, but I find that we interpret a film’s success based on how many people see it.” said Nick. “Guiding as the film goes, majority of the

audience perspective, that they make film for the audience, that they think they’re trying to tell a story to communicate an idea, perspective of life, to the audience, that

you know, because without an audience, it doesn’t exist.” he said.

Film is not just characters interacting on a screen. It’s a story, a story for the audience.

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The Audience’s Top Picks The audience has a big impact on films. Here are the results from a survey asking 9th grade highschoolers their favorite movie genre: Action

14 (87.5%)

Adventure

9 (56.3%)

Romance

5 (31.3%) 14 (87.5%)

Comedy Drama

2 (12.5%)

Fantasy Horror

8 (50%) 4 (25%) 11 (68.8%)

Mystery Musical

Sci-Fi

6 (37.8%) 9 (56.3)

Superhero movies are one of the most famous genre of movies. Some people prefer Marvel while others prefer DC.

DC 1 (6.3%)

Credit to DC

Marvel 15 (93.8%)

Credit to Marvel Studios

Graphics by Nidhi allaboyina

Sasha Rainbow looks at her peers.

She wonders what her next shot will be.

Photo provided by Sasha Rainbow

Chair Graphics by Carys DeCrane Light Graphics by Fiona Kleeman