...audience who are viewing the film. A large factor that contributes to good movies and the emotions in movies are the actors that are chosen to play the main characters. Another factor that makes a good film is the plot of the movie because it carries the ideas and meaning of the film. The setting is the last extensive aspect of a movie because it helps the audience sense more emotion and personality. The actors, plot and setting are three immeasurable factors that add to the greatness of a film. Actors play a large role in films making the movie have feeling and interest. When you have good actors your movie is extremely interesting. Good actors make it easier to connect with the story. By seeing the actors portray the correct emotions, it adds dimension and makes it easy to connect with the film and understand the emotions being shown. When the actors learn how to work with each other and show chemistry throughout the film, it adds to the intensity of the movie and allows the audience to see the emotions in the story. When the actors show these two aspects throughout the movie, it makes you feel as if you were in the film and experienced the same things as they did. As much as a good actor can make a good movie, a bad actor can destroy one. Bad actors do not portray the character, the feelings and emotions are completely missed and it makes the viewer uninterested and disappointed. The actors add so much to the movies we watch and make the films much more meaningful. ...
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...Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers is a film by Italian filmmaker, Gillo Pontecorvo. The film was nominated for three Oscars for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen, and Best Director. It won the grand prize at Venice and was given top honors in London during its debut. The Battle of Algiers reveals the questionable effects of Western imperialism and how the legacy of imperialism is tied to the suppression of indigenous resistance. The film is set in the city of Algiers which was the capital of Algiers, during French colonist rule of the 1950s and 1960s. The film depicts how the French colonists were successful in winning the Battle of Algiers in 1957, however, in the end, their tactics cost them the colony of Algeria; three years later, the people overthrew French colonial rule and won their independence. The film is an insightful interpretation of the effect of Western colonialism; as such, it's an important source of reference in the discussion of current events involving the West's intervention in the Middle East. The movie begins with a torture scene in which French paratroopers have just gained information about the freedom fighters. The French know where the leader, Ali Pointe, is hiding and he has thirty seconds to surrender. Much of the film is a flashback from the point of view of Ali Pointe, the leader of the resistance. The way the film came about is surprising in many ways. The movie was subsidized by the Algerian...
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...Actors and Acting | The text defines five types of actors: Impersonator, Personality, Star, Wild Card, and Character. Come up with examples of each type of actor (in addition to those identified in the text) and explain in detail why you think they fit each particular category. In this chapter, I learned that there are five different types of actors; Impersonator, Personality, Star, Wild Card and Character. A great example of impersonator would be Chris Tucker from the movies “Rush Hour”, “Friday” and “House Party 3.” I think that all the characters that he plays in all these movies depict and behave in really life. In this text the term impersonator is considered demeaning in the acting world suggesting that the actor has simply copied the manner, dialect, and behavior of a character, instead of creating the character. (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2011) Personality actors would be Mark Wahlberg from the movies “The Three Kings”, “Shooter” and “The Departed” is great examples of how Mark uses his strong personality and bad attitude to play the character in these movies. The star type actor to me would be Sandra Bullock because of the way the people interested in her and her relationships and the money she gets per movie. I think a great wild card would be Mikey Rourke because he can play any character from good to bad guys; a great example of a movie for him would be “The Wrestler”. A character type actor to me would Jonah Hill because the characters that he plays in the movies...
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...Assessment 4 – Essay Q: Why did the New Zealand government offer Warner Brothers incentives to film “The Hobbit” in New Zealand? Analyse how this will affect the New Zealand film industry and New Zealand society. The movie “The Hobbit”, directed and produced by New Zealand’s own Peter Jackson, is a two-part film based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel of the same name. It is a prequel to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ film trilogy. The film is being shot right here in New Zealand, but only because of our governments’ intervention. Warner Brothers were considering moving production elsewhere due to a Do Not Work order released from the International Federation of Actors. It was the fear that our tourism industry surrounding the film would be hit hard that caused a national uproar, so on 25th of October 2010, thousands of New Zealanders organised protest rallies imploring that production remained in New Zealand. It was two days later that the New Zealand government and Warner Bros executives decided to keep the Hobbit being filmed in New Zealand as originally planned. On 24th September 2010, the International Federation of Actors Do Not Work order advised members that “The producers…have refused to engage performers on union-negotiated agreements” This would subject the actors who work on the film to possible displacement from the union. This is what caused Warner Bros and New Line Cinema to consider taking production elsewhere. The New Zealand government came to an agreement between the...
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...represents or finds jobs for artists, film directors, screenwriters, models, or musicians in entertainment or film industry. The acting agency supports, promotes, or defends the clients' interests. An accounting agency can specialize on various talents in the film industry by establishing different departments within the company or specify on a single specialty. As such, the acting agencies can range from being commercial talent, modeling, sport, broadcast journalist, voice-over, music, film, or literal agencies. The status of Exposure Acting Agency has aroused interest to give them growth and development ideas after noticing its decline in its business, especially the way it does not receive requests for actors for the past few months. In this case, this report provides an effective business plan that Exposure Acting Agency can implement into their organization to thrive their success in the film industry. Background The aim of this plan reports it to help Exposure Acting Agency streamline its products and services to make sure its signed actors receive frequent requests from film directors, which is the healthy way of ensuring business growth and talent development. Receiving frequent requests for the actors will help the company to drive its growth and sustainability, as it achieves the expected operations and financials over the given period. Exposure acting is a New York-based company that specializes on inter-linking film actors with film directors with an aim of growing...
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...was there to fight for the fair representation of Latinos in the film. Rodriguez openly discusses movies where Mexican and Latina's women are stereotyped. Rodriguez reveals how Latinos are not interested in filmmaking, especially his guerilla filmmaking and instead he gets non-Latinos who are using the valuable information in making movies. Rodriguez input in Hollywood could not be felt as movie script was made by involving many movie makers to contribute to ideas. The responsibility he had in Hollywood was to make enjoyable, entertaining, and fun movies that people will always yearn to see and not to make movies for people to appreciate. Rodriguez explains that when he puts his experience to filmmaking, then the Latino part will just come out naturally and no need to force it. Also forcing oneself to watch Latin movies won’t help as it requires passion, not it is an obligation for one to do....
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...represents or finds jobs for artists, film directors, screenwriters, models, or musicians in entertainment or film industry. The acting agency supports, promotes, or defends the clients' interests. An accounting agency can specialize on various talents in the film industry by establishing different departments within the company or specify on a single specialty. As such, the acting agencies can range from being commercial talent, modeling, sport, broadcast journalist, voice-over, music, film, or literal agencies. The status of Exposure Acting Agency has aroused interest to give them growth and development ideas after noticing its decline in its business, especially the way it does not receive requests for actors for the past few months. In this case, this report provides an effective business plan that Exposure Acting Agency can implement into their organization to thrive their success in the film industry. Background The aim of this plan reports it to help Exposure Acting Agency streamline its products and services to make sure its signed actors receive frequent requests from film directors, which is the healthy way of ensuring business growth and talent development. Receiving frequent requests for the actors will help the company to drive its growth and sustainability, as it achieves the expected operations and financials over the given period. Exposure acting is a New York-based company that specializes on inter-linking film actors with film directors with an aim of growing...
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...when they watch a movie. The mise en scene of a movie catches the attention of the viewers’ moods as much as lighting, props sounds, and smells do. It alerts their emotional response system to a real-life setting, which is conveyed in the movie. Mise en scene has two significant visual components: design and composition. Design creates the look and overall feeling of the lighting, setting(s), decor, and actors. Composition refers to the structure, distribution, equilibrium, and the relationship between the actors and the matter around them and within their environment. The use of these elements within the movie frame provide the audience with the general meaning of the movie scene. Mise en scene also plays an important role in the viewers’ response to a movie. It affects the viewers’ experience of views, sounds, contrast and color. Some aspects of mise en scene can happen on a rare occasion; whether through an act of mother nature or by accident. For example: rain, snow, an actor improvising and ignoring the script, or an actor getting injured. Mise en scene happens in movies because the movie directors planned it before the shooting of the scenes of the movie. Mise en scene can and is sometimes used to distinguish a director’s movie work from another director's. In addition to the stress put on the movie director, each director of a new movie shooting in a certain movie genre has to accurately present the mise en scene of that movie to...
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...As a proponent of indie films and enterprising actors, there is practically nothing better than having the opportunity to discover actors with whom I was previously unfamiliar. In the case of James Clayton, when I screened CANDiLAND, that was my first exposure to this amazing industry professional. Recently, James agreed to answer a few questions concerning his entrance into the profession, his notable works, and even what he believes (hopes) his future may hold for him. Photo Credit Kevin Clark Photography RH: Why did you decide to become an actor? What kind of training have you received? JC: I've acted my entire life, but didn't conceive of it as a career until I was about sixteen. At that time, I jumped right in and started auditioning. I didn't have any formal training and was relying purely on instinct. When I was around the age of seventeen, a good friend of mine, director Adam Smolok, gave me a book written by the great acting teacher Stella Adler (she taught Marlon Brando), and it really opened up my mind to the possibilities of the craft. When I moved to...
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...represents or finds jobs for artists, film directors, screenwriters, models, or musicians in entertainment or film industry. The acting agency supports, promotes, or defends the clients' interests. An accounting agency can specialize on various talents in the film industry by establishing different departments within the company or specify on a single specialty. As such, the acting agencies can range from being commercial talent, modeling, sport, broadcast journalist, voice-over, music, film, or literal agencies. The status of Exposure Acting Agency has aroused interest to give them growth and development ideas after noticing its decline in its business, especially the way it does not receive requests for actors for the past few months. In this case, this report provides an effective business plan that Exposure Acting Agency can implement into their organization to thrive their success in the film industry. Background The aim of this plan reports it to help Exposure Acting Agency streamline its products and services to make sure its signed actors receive frequent requests from film directors, which is the healthy way of ensuring business growth and talent development. Receiving frequent requests for the actors will help the company to drive its growth and sustainability, as it achieves the expected operations and financials over the given period. Exposure acting is a New York-based company that specializes on inter-linking film actors with film directors with an aim of growing...
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...A film is nothing without its story; it is the basis on which a film is made around without a script there is no film. The script that the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is centered around is one filled with sacrifice, love, and family. It helps bring out the emotions of the characters as well as establishes the tone of the film. A good story can help the audience connect to the characters because it finds ways of pulling from everyday situations and that is what makes a good script. People want to be able to relate to a story so if the film has the potential of letting the viewers see themselves in the characters place then they can completely be immense in the film. The “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is about the life of Loretta Lynn and her raise to fame. The story starts when she is thirteen and with her father in town when she meets Mooney and is instantly taken by him. Their relationship grows and soon she is married to Mooney with opposition from her father, but in the end he allows it. Loretta soon learns that being married is not always so glamorous and Mooney starts to turn his affections elsewhere. Both of them then move to Washington State where...
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...Biographical Films Jenna Nelson December 12, 2014 JASS 248 Professor Erik Marshall Analysis Essay-The Five Heartbeats; The Film Genre of Biopics The Five Heartbeats (1991), directed by Robert Townsend, is a movie that I know all too well. This film effectively portrays the highs and the lows of the music industry and how it affects the members of a group. In this essay, I will analyze the cinematography, mis-en-scéne and the importance of music in films such as this one. I will also expound upon the genre of biographical films and how they contribute to society. Biographical films, or “biopics” represents the life history of an actual person or group. Unlike documentary film, biopics employ actors to play the roles of these individuals: they are dramatized, fictional films. Biopics are often marketed as being “inspired by” or “based on” the lives of famous people including entertainers, royalty, scientists and even criminals. Dennis Bingham conducted a study on biographical films and discusses and history of the biography. He also looks at the various forms of the biopic, including theatrical releases, made-for-television movies and short films. Bingham argues that biopics of women are structured so differently from male biopics as to constitute their own genre. The conventions of the female biopic have proven much more intractable than the male biopic. This is due to society’s difficulty with the very issue of women in the public sphere. The difficulty kept...
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...Can Bollywood Go Global? Submitted By: Divyanshu Rastogi 0134/52 Abstract The case talks about the opportunities and problems that the Indian film makers face in reaching out to the international film business and market. It provides a historical view by detailing the journey of the cinema and how Hollywood emerged as the global leader in the film industry worldwide by the 1920’s. Although some movie industries were sustained in other regions including the United Kingdom and France, their films and offerings had restricted international appeal and audience. It also focuses on the rise and development of the Indian film industry and the entire industry as well. Bollywood films, which are made in Mumbai usually are the most famous and acknowledged amongst the Indian film industry which also includes other genres like Tollywood, which constitutes of the movies made in the state of Andhra Pradesh (and now Telangana as well) and caters to Telugu films. The Bollywood movies are generally melodramatic and musical. There are other local language films made in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal as well. Bollywood films in specific have done well in Southeast Asia and are fairly popular amongst the Indian populace. It also brings to light the challenge of whether Indian content films can rival with Hollywood in international markets and to how extensively a modification in content is required for this approach to be successful. History of the World cinema The Cinema first came into existence...
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...Themes Regina Walker ENG 225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Christopher McBride January 17, 2016 The movie I chose to discuss for the theme topic is Goodfellas. The major theme of this movie is about Henry a young man in little Italy who wants to become a wise guy. The mafia was always considered a very tight group, and the gangsters' mob family was just as important as their own family. This is first seen in the movie when Henry first starts working part time for Paulie. Paulie introduced Henry to Jimmy and Tommy who introduced him to a true life of crime and thus began a career of major crimes. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/goodfellas-1990 Three techniques used in this film that contribute to the establishment of the theme are Lighting: This movie was shot in traditional and high- key lighting. This can be seen through this entire film, the movie had a few low-key lighting points however; they were not as prevalent as the high key ones. Costuming: The clothing and design in this film are those of an era in which grace and elegance where still key factors in how people dressed. The makeup was neat and flawless and the clothes were timeless and fashionable. In the scene in which Henry and Karen went on a date she wears a dress and long gloves something customary of what women wore back then. His suit was fitted and not sloppy or too baggy or big it was tailored to fit him and he wore it well when they entered the restaurant, although through the back door...
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...8 Seconds Justin Richard ENG225 Instructor Schmidt December 19, 2011 8 Seconds There are thousands of movies that can be broken down and analyzed but there are a handful of films that tell a story about a cowboy doing what he loves most. In the 1994 film entitled, 8 Seconds, one should stop and analyze all the elements from the story that was told to the overall textual themes that showed why this film was truly a heartwarming experience through the life of Lane Frost. All directors have a story to tell through a film being created. He or she will use either a chronological order or a non-linear order to help guide the audience through the story. Goodykoontz & Jacobs (2011) states, “Most movies follow a standard chronological order, which means that events in the movie’s plot follow the same order they would occur in the story, the order of real time” (p 2.3). John Avildsen, the director of 8 Seconds, used a chronological order to escort the audience through Lane’s life from the time he was a young child riding sheep at the fair to a world champion bull rider. The story starts in 1968 as a kid trying to hold on for dare life in a sheep riding contest at the local fair somewhere in Oklahoma. Immediately following this scene, the director takes us to Lane riding bulls in the All Teen Rodeo Championships; which Frost wins first place after riding a bull for eight seconds. After the early years of learning the techniques of riding bulls from his father he...
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