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My weekly blog this week is about the upcoming movie Star Wars: Episode VII. The film is in the processes of begining to  be filmed but the creators have given an opportunity to the public to be in the movie. You can enter this cool competition just by applying online. Thw raffle will be helping a benefit a charity UNICEF. The winner will have the chance to travel with all the cast and crew, meet the cast and crew, and be put in hair and makeup and wardrobe to appear and be a part of the movie. The walk on roll is said not to be a budget buster, but how do we know that's true? Well we don't know but something bad may come out of this. Why is this important to us film students? Well this is important to us for our future of our film career for ideas. This sounds like a really good idea and can help to gather ideas for the future to promote movies. 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/showbiz/movies/star-wars-movie-raffle/index.html?c=movies

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My weekly blog this week is about the new upcoming movie magic mike 2. The film is a sequel to the hit movie magic mike. It is said that the film will be in theaters next year July 2015. Channing Tatum, the main actor has let out the plot of the film already. Was this smart of him to do? It is said that the movie is inspired by two conventions that Tatum attended when he was just 19. Is it smart to trust his ideas? 

Well I do think that this important to me as a film maker because it imforms me about the ideas of the movie and can help me decide if the film is worth watching. 

I do think that once more info on the move comes out I will probably decide if it is a movie worth watching and I suggest everyone who is intrested in the film to do the same.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/20/showbiz/movies/channing-tatum-magic-mike-ew/index.html?c=movies

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This week on my weekly blog it is about the new movie coming out called Godzilla. CNN has said that the new film might make you feel like a kid again due to the fact that kids have grown up watching Godzilla. This new film has brought out to be about a $160 million dollar film. The actors in the film are not really focused on but the story the most. It is said that unlike the last film Godzilla shows more of his monster side with a bit of his dark side. Yet, the movie got a rating of a -B. 

I feel like this is relevant to me as a film student because I should know what to look foward to before going to see a film. I do think though that this film would be worth seeing and would recommend others to see it too. 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/showbiz/movies/godzilla-review-ew/index.html?c=movies

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My Weekly Blog this week is on the new upcoming movie Noah. Noah is based on the bible in when God told Noah to round up animals and people to take on his boat he built from saving the people from dying. The movie brought in 44 million dollars just this weekend. It even brought down last weeks top 5 films. So is the movie worth going to see. We'll much money was put into the making of this film so why not take a look into what all the fuss is about.

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This week my blog will be about the memoriam that occurs during the oscars to recognize the good people that have died recently. One of the deatha was a comedy filmmaker Harold Ramis that was 69, and the other was a camera assistant named Sarah Jones that was 27, who was struck by a train while filming. Though these people aren't very known. Many people have sent in call and concerns saying they want to braodcast her during the live event. This is important because it shows that even though you may not be known that well everyone is important and plays a big role in the film industry and these people should all be recognized. They should fight to be shown and to make them known. I respect the people that are trying to make this happen and hope that they do make this happen. We shall find out on sunday!

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/showbiz/movies/oscar-in-memoriam-segment/index.html?c=showbiz 

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My weekly blog this week is about how I meet Donald M. Morgan last week. Mr. Morgan has been a cinematographer for about 30 years and still works from time to time. On one of the days we were out filminf he came out and asked us if we ever saw an Emmy award and of course we said no. He showes us his award and allowed us to take a picture. He has won five Emmy's and 5 ASC awards and a couple others. The man is an inspiration to me and to what I would want to become in the future. 

His website is listed for more info: donaldm.morganasc.com

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My blog this week will be about Barkhad Abdi, and how he was nominated for best supporting actor. From what I have heard and read this man, not long ago was just a limo driver. Not that long ago his whole world was changed. An audition was held for parts of the upcoming movie Captian Phillis and the 28 year old decided to take a shot at it since he has had a bit of experince in the film industry working behind the camera. The recieved the role of Tom Hank's co- star. Not only did he land the part but he did a great job and earned nominee. I haven't seen the movie myself but by the sound of it he did a pretty well job and I do belive he does deserve the nominee.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/showbiz/movies/oscars-2014-nominee-reactions-barkhad-abdi/index.html?c=movies

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This week for my blog I will be talking the nominations for the Academy Awards again. This time I will be talking about the movie Wolf on Wall Street. The Wolf on Wall Street was nominated for many awards. One was for the leading role for Leonardio DiCaprio. I did agree with this nomination, I recently went to go see the movie and I have seen a lot of DiCaprios movie and I have to say he did an excellent job with this one and truly believed his character, even though I'm used to seeing him as this loving caring guy in romantic movies, he really did step up and proved he was meant to play that  role. Jonah Hill was also nominated for supporting role, I thought Jonah was the perfect supporting role because he's this goofy guy you wouln't think would be so successful, it was a perfect combination and he worked great with DiCaprio. Other nominations for this movie were for Directing, Best Picture, and Writing( Adapted Screenplay). I agree with the Directing nomination and Best Picture, because the way it was shot in the way the camera was used way it was framed really helped with moments when he was so far away from his goal and had weak moments when he wasn't so powerful. The picture was great it really also does deserce that award. I do disagree with the nomination for Writing, because I do think there could of been some changes in the story itself, some parts towards the end could of been fixed to make more of an impact. Yet, besides that I think this movie desreves mostly all of the nominations and do hope they win them. 

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My blog this week is about the nominations for the academy awards. One nomination that stood out to me is for feature animated film. The croods was one to be nominated for this category. I watched the croods but didn't watch the other nominated films but from seeing the croods I can say that is was a great choice to have been nominated for featured animation film. The film was all you could ask for in a kids film. Even though I'm a teen I was an amusing film to watch with my family. I strongly think that it has a very good chance at winning the award and hope it does. 

Film progress week 6

Film progress week 6

Well this is the last week that we had till we turned in our films. Lastly to be done was all the sounds. A bit of foley was not able to be added to the film. In the end the film was turned in and we had all the shots we needed turned in. Yet, we did not have all the sound put in to we needed. Oportunities to put foley in was missed but in the end it was a good experience to get a taste of how the rest of the year will be. 

Film progress week 5

Film progress week 5

This week on our film we have only w couple days left to finish. We have everything recorded and it is a matter of putting it all together. We had to record some ADR again but so far we have all of our sound done. The foley has been done but there was trouble when putting the foley with the footsteps because they didn't match. Yet, we have everything in control and just need to focus on finishing it on time. The film is way more work then I expected but it was good to give a taste of how busy and how hard working we gotta be bext year. 

Film progress week 4

Film progress week 4

This week on our film is where we started our post filming work. We started editing more and recording foley sounds. All our ADR is mostly done and just have to focus on our editing. We each take turns switching off in the editing. Though, sometimes we may get distracted we are determined to finish this film in time. The shots that we got are all of a variety which will make our film more intresting. If we keep up the work and also push it more our film should be done and ready to show by friday. 

Film progress week 3

Film progress week 3

This week in our film group we have filmed about two days already. We have gotten a lot done in about four days. The first two days we messed around a bit and didn't get much done but pulled ourselves together and have gotten what we need to get done, done. There were some scenes that needed redoing and we shot them today. We also needed a variety of more angles for certain scenes to make it look more apealing. This week we plan to shot once more and do more editing. Today the guys also worked on some foley that we will add in tomorrow. Finally, I would like to say that our whole group is cooperating and being there when needed and if we keep up the good work, I know it will be a great film. 

Film progress week 2

Film progress week 2

For this weeks progress with our film we have been successful. We started our first say of filming on wednesday. We originally scheduled it for tuesday but ran into a few problems and moved it to wednesday. During that day we went to the house we are shooting at and worked on the first couple of scenes. We did a good job so far in the shots we got and our camera man got good angles to have a variety of shots to switch off of. Then we ended the day off with the scene where he plays his Xbox. The next day the guys in our group decided to start working on the foley sounds while naomi and I helped edit. The next days we are scheduled to shot is this following week and again we hope to get a lot done and do a great job on out film.

Film progress week 1

Film Progress

For my film group we chose to go with Gustavo's script. We have started fixing mistakes in the script and perfecting it to be the way we want out story to go. We spend time at the location we want to shoot and took pictures so we have a better idea to do out story board. We only have two characters in the film and our main character will be Eric. The other will be played by my mom as the mother. We plan to be filming by next week if we finish our script and storyboard on time. The days we plan to film will probably be Tuesday,Wednesday, and Thursday of next week and the week after that. Our scripts did have an amount of mistakes but we all got online and fixed it together. The group have all cooperated and have all put in there work so if we continue this way I hope to be done on time and to have done a well job. 

Well of course by this time I'm sure everyone has heard of Netflix. Yet, though they have a million viewers that pay monthly to use their service, how else do they make their money? If you haven't seen yet, Netflix now has they're own TV shows that they produced and only play on there also like Hulu. A survey says that about half of the viewers watch the Netflix series. On some research that was done it is said that Netflix raised their price target from $280 to $330. About $150 million was used to make the TV shows. Yet, from a source it is said Netflix Shows will  " cut churn by establishing expectations about future potential offerings, a strategy borrowed from premium cable networks like HBO." This can help them a lot money wise and help them expand more then they already have.

This article caught my eye because literally all I watch is Netflix and knowing how they make their money or learning ways they expand interest me to always keep up with their new ideas to help them expand more.

As a consumer and film student it concerns me that Netflix does well because being able to watch as many times as I want and with a whole variety does concern me because without it , where would I watch movies?

Although Netflix's produced TV shows have become a big hit ,will their other new inventions be as good as this one?  

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/netflix-bet-originals-already-paying-off-194902500.html

AMC the second biggest movie chain in the nation is said to go public. AMC is owned by China's Dalian Wanda Group and in his best interest for the company he plans to raise over $400million for the company. The movie chain has over 340 movie theaters in bussiness and with going public it can surley benefit. In December 2007 AMC originally  set a $750-million IPO. After, releasing info on this there was a withdrawal a year later. Then, later in 2012 china biggest entertainment group offered to buy them out for $ 2.6 billion. After , it made AMC the world's largest owned theater. Later ,on AMC's income doubled to about $41.4 Million dollars.

 What caught my eye in this article is how AMC has made more money and whether it's going to continue being run well because if not it may mean no more AMC theaters and places for movies to be shown.

How this impacted me as a film student or consumer? Well like everyone else I love going to the movie theaters watching movies on the big screen is way better than watching it at home. Therefore, knowing whether AMC is doing well in it's bussiness does affect me because without the AMC ,theaters would be way more packed then usual and less options of places to watch a film.

Well, AMC is doing pretty good and is successful but would it stay like this for long? 




http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-amc-entertainment-ipo-20130830,0,7486975.story