Source of Inspiration 4

 

     So oddly enough one of my inspirational pieces actually came from another blog. Morgan's post on Hamilton inspired me to think more outside the box to add something new to my blog. Her post was about doing a song of the week, and that inspired me to do something kind of similar. Instead of doing a song of the week though I would do either a movie/TV show of the week or even a different poll for each week. I love the idea of adding something weekly like that so I decided to try and make it fit my own blog. The polls could be done on multiple different things such as favorite Marvel film, favorite genre, favorite actress or actor and so on. These could be changed every week or even every 2 weeks. Either way it creates a more interactive element to the design that I think people would really enjoy. Personally I know I love participating in the polls and love coming back to see who won. Morgan had a brilliant idea and I'd love to one day be able to incorporate it into my own design. 

The Wilhelm Scream

 
     I can almost 100% guarantee that at some point in your life you have heard the Wilhelm Scream (WS), whether you realize it or not. The WS is probably one of my favorite things about films and I love hearing it when I'm watching a movie. Movies such as Despicable Me, The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Monsters University, and every single Star Wars movie has featured this one sound clip. But what is it and where did it come from?

     It's actually a lot older than people might realize. The scream was recorded in the year 1951 for a film called Distant Drums. In the scene where the sound is used, a man is dragged underneath a swamp by an alligator. That's it. That's the origin story for the Wilhelm Scream. So why has it become such a widely used sound effect? Well for a long time the sound actually wasn't used. until Stars Wars came around. They started using that screaming and have used in every single movie since. After Star Wars, other editors and filmmakers have started using t more as well, turning this man being bit by an alligator into a little game for movie goers. Nothing makes me more excited when watching a film than suddenly hearing that scream in the background. And trust me once you know what it sounds like you'l hear it everywhere. It's a blessing and a curse.

     I'm going to leave you guys with a compilation from YouTube of Wilhelm Screams in films. Feel free to watch it and see if there are any films you have seen before! I'm also going to give you guys a link to IMDb that has a list of movies that have used the WS at some point during their story. There is probably one if not more movies on that list that you have seen.

 

image: http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/pictures/films/chargefeatherriver/featherriverwil.jpg

Source of Inspiration 3

     Let's talk about borders. Not the ones surrounding the country, or even the country; but, the ones surrounding pictures. In some of my earlier posts the images always looked a little out of place to me, but I never really had an idea of what to do to fix them. Until one afternoon when I was looking around at some of the pictures around my desk. On the bottom shelf I have my sorority composite, and on the top shelf a collage my best friend gave me and a picture of my favorite soccer player Ali Krieger, The one thing that all of these pictures had in common was a gray border around them. So after noticing I decided why not give it a try on here, and I ended up loving it. The border I feel just completes the post and ties everything together somehow. 

9 Interesting Firsts in Film

1. First stunt woman on Indian screen: Fearless Nadia aka Mary Ann Evans (Mary Evans Wadia)
2. Toy Story was the first CGI feature film 
3. The Power of Love was the first 3-D film released in the year 1922
4. The first film to be rated PG-13 was Red Dawn (1984)
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the first film to have a commercially released soundtrack  
6. The first Shakespeare adaptation was King John in 1899
7. The first Sherlock Holmes film was Sherlock Holmes Baffled in 1900
8. The first Woman to win a Best Director Oscar was Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2010)
9. The first black person to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel in 1940 (photographed above)

All information and image found at the sites listed below:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/72060/36-film-history-firsts

http://cassavafilms.com/list-of-9/nine-unheralded-firsts-in-film

http://listverse.com/2009/11/24/top-10-firsts-in-feature-films/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cinematic_firsts

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/african-american-oscar-winner-oscarssowhite-870533/item/common-john-legend-african-american-870592

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/02/_75_years_ago_hattie_mcdaniel_became_the_first_african_american_to_win_an.html