Reel Stories
First Time Narrative Filmmaking With Grace Kelly!
As a filmmaker who specialized in filming documentaries in the past, I decided to take the opportunity the Student Board gave me and attempt creating a narrative film. While the process in making a documentary or a narrative are vastly different, they are both equally rewarding. In the past, my favorite part of making a documentary has been the interviewing portion because that is where I get to play with the settings on the camera and decide how I want the interview to look. With narrative, I am excited to try editing the scenes since I won’t have to create [...]
Celebrating the Academy Awards for the massive wins for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
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“Our Flag Means Death” Review by Reel Stories Intern Grace Kelly!
With Pride Month right around the corner in June, there have been many queer-positive shows appearing in streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, etc, but one show that I and my queer friends have fallen in love with is called "Our Flag Means Death". Still from "Our Flag Means Death" showing protagonists Blackbeard (left) and Stede Bonnet (right) sharing tea. The show is a period drama that depicts the story of a wealthy aristocrat who has always been bullied for his soft nature leaving his family to set off to become a pirate. It is a light-hearted, comedic show [...]
Films To Watch: Zodiac Sign Edition!
⭐ Let the stars tell you what film to watch this week ⭐ This list was curated by Reel Stories Intern Grace Kelly 🤩 ♑ Capricorn: Capricorns are ambitious, direct, and love to learn. Capricorns would enjoy an athletic documentary, such as "The Dawn Wall", which follows a man on a mission to climb El Capitan at Yosemite. ♒ Aquarius: Aquarians can be enthusiastic and active, or more reserved and calm, either way, they love thinking about the future and love science fiction, which is why "The Matrix" would be the perfect movie for them! ♓ Pisces: These daydreaming people [...]
Meet Our Reel Stories Intern, Luna Ekun Dayo!
Hi! My name is Luna Ekundayo. I’m a 17 year old student in the 12th grade at MetWest high school. I’m very passionate about the arts. I enjoy traditional art, digital art, playing electric guitar, singing, writing music, photography, videography the list goes on. I believe I gravitate towards creating because I enjoy exploring and conveying big feelings. All of these mediums allow me to express aspects of myself and other people through art. I’ve always enjoyed engaging different mediums but film is unique in its capability to unify them into one entire audio visual experience. I love creating a [...]
Meet Our Reel Stories Intern, Grace Kelly!
Hello! I am Grace Kelly, I’m 17 years old and I am a senior at Campolindo High School. I’ve been learning and studying film for about four or five years now and I have found that it has taken over my interests. I love any form of art that is visual such as painting and drawing as well (although I’m not very skilled at it). I found a love for theater tech as well and I am now the president and video director of my tech club at school! I fell in love with film because it was a way [...]
Review of “What I Should Have Said” by Jamie Donohoe
By Grace Kelly, Reel Stories Intern and Reel Stories Student Board Member Recently, I had the pleasure of watching a film that was written and directed by my English teacher, Jamie Donohoe. Still from "What I Should Have Said" short film “What I Should Have Said” starts off by depicting a father and three kids at a dinner table. Donohoe said that the dinner table is the one time where everybody is together and that, for him, it was a time where he received good and bad news with his family and so for everyone to lie and say they [...]
How writer and director Sophie Penn started creating her independent short film “Halcyon Days”
Hi Readers of Reel Stories! I’m writing this to talk about, well, a REAL story. My own, and that of the film that I am in the process of creating. My name is Sophie Penn. I was born and raised in Belmont, California (Bay Area!!) and am currently living and working as an independent filmmaker in Austin, Texas. I went to Syracuse University as a film major in 2018, and subsequently took a gap year in January 2021 to move to Austin and start a film production company with three colleagues. Now, ten months later, I’m still in Austin, and [...]
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Queen’s Gambit Review
The Queen’s Gambit Review By Kayla Wong I watched The Queen’s Gambit and now I think chess is interesting, well-edited scenes from chess games made for television that is. The Queen’s Gambit is a Netflix limited series based on the novel with the same name by Walter Tevis. The show follows the journey of chess prodigy Beth Harmon, who also happens to be an orphan who struggles with addiction. This show came highly recommended to me by friends, classmates, and even my Acting teacher from school. They all insisted that I would love this show as someone who appreciates the [...]
