...Even though the soundtrack of my life should sound like snoring and several potty mouth words from others directed towards me, I have found out that it would be more than that. It would consist be separated into two parts: The Genesis and The Rise. At least in my own mind. All three of these songs represent me and events that have happened to me in my short lifetime. “My Shot” by Lin-Manuel Miranda : “I’m a diamond in the rough, a shining piece of coal, trying to reach my goal…” This particular line from the American Musical, Hamilton, means a lot to me. I can relate this to the first eight years of my life, where I was still trying to find who I was. I was always trying to please others and I tried very hard to find which group of people I belonged to. I was alway an outsider and I always will be, no matter how hard I try. It has allowed me to see how everyone follows each other, like...
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... Process Essay Importing video into iMovie There are many different video-editing computer programs out there ranging from amateur to professional. Their level of complexity is usually reflected in the price. But I have found, for my simple needs, that nothing beats the interface of iMovie 2. Even though the program came out nearly ten years ago, it still offers a streamlined performance that remains compatible with popular movie formats in use today. I am still able to import video, if it can play in QuickTime, edit it, import and add up to two audio tracks, add transitions to video, edit audio, fade in or out, and export the completed movie into many different formats. I will explain how I do it so that if you’re interested, you can do it too. First you need a few materials. Naturally, you need a Macintosh computer running at least Mac OS 9. If you’ve bought a Mac in the last ten years, it’ll probably be 9 or higher anyway. Next, you need the program iMovie 2. I bought the disc secondhand off of ebay for only ten dollars, but you may be able to find it available as freeware online. Next, you need to also have QuickTime 7 Pro, also available free with serial numbers online. Finally, you need a movie file and an audio file. It’s not important what format, with the exception of Windows Media Video/Audio, as they’re all convertible with QuickTime. For my video, I’m going to look to youtube...
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...Composition MU51013A Assignment 3 33219967 Panos Ghikas We made our composition assignment for the cartoon Tom and Jerry. The final idea was to create a new soundtrack for it. Although, our ideas changed a lot we managed to choose the best one. At the beginning we thought about using toy keyboards and xylophones but that did not work out because they were too expensive for us. The other one was to use an electric violin and keyboard to create different sounds but that was not suitable for the assignment. Furthermore, we thought that one person in the group could interrupt everyone during their improvisation and that she could also use percussion instruments such as a tambourine and also making sounds with body, but we dropped it. When we had to present the composition for the first time we all played on our own instruments and we did not have a backbone idea for it. There were 3 main sections then: a certain kind of rhythm which everyone was playing at a different time, then random notes and a melody line. Because we did not have a backbone we had to change our original composition. The first thought was to go with the silent movie and then wrote a soundtrack for it. We all did a lot of research but none of the movies was suitable for us. The final thought was to take one cartoon and write a soundtrack for it. We searched a suitable clip by watching lots of Tom and Jerry episodes to find the right one. We decided to compose for the episode called Push- Button Kitty...
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...In this essay, I will discuss the cinematography, montage, musical composure, and the effect it had on the movie it was used in. I recently had the pleasure of viewing Alfred Hitchcock’s movie titled “Vertigo”. It is based on the 1959 novel “D’entre les morts” that was written by Boileau Narcejac. Jimmy Stewart who was portrayed “Scottie” was stellar in this film as well as Alfred Hitchcock’s presence and directorial style; paramount. Cinematography, which is the combined art and technology of films and how it is created, was evident in this film (Cinematography). One of the features that Alfred Hitchcock is heavily noted for is the use of color to draw in feeling and emotion within a scene. For instance, in the opening scene of Vertigo, the first thing you will notice is the use of red, blue, and green. The colors shifted from one to the next with the changing of objects and certain panning techniques that were used to focus the audience on a certain point of the frame and color significance. Most importantly, Hitchcock used those colors as a lead in to the rest of the entire movie, which they are used throughout every scene and have a specific meaning and connection. For an example, the color red was used in a matter that would have the viewer assume that emotions like that of terror, fear, and horror. However, throughout the film the same color is used in flowers, wallpaper, and other scenery, which had a different meaning as in warmer emotional feelings. The color blue...
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...you are writing for. This is a major difference in this essay. This could be print or online based. A publication style will change your tone and voice for writing. The publication will simply be stated under your name on your draft and final draft. Feel free to write for Rolling Stone, Spin, The Onion, Westword, The Advocate (YOUR school newspaper), online sites, etc… If you want something more standard, simply select The Denver Post. If you want to select something more appropriate for your writing style, select a publication that will give you such freedom. You must select a real one though. Evaluation An evaluation is just that – YOU evaluating. This is NOT simply a summary of a film. Do NOT write what happened start to finish. Your goal is: defend what you liked or disliked in the film – feel free to use examples – but SHOW why/how you liked/disliked them. You can select acting, plot, direction, cinematography, CG, special effects, hue/tone, music (soundtrack or score), costumes, genre (romance, horror, etc…) and more. Simply select several elements. An example: The film featured excellent performances, by all the cast. Christian Bale, as always is great as Batman. Anne Hathaway was completely engrossing; she became "Catwoman", just like Michele Pfeiffer did, although their interpretations were very different, both were equally effective. Tom Hardy, the main villain ("Bane"), completely shattered my expectations. One of...
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...The book covers some of the best classic sci-fi films that personified the fundamental components that are timeless and thought-provocative that has kept generations of filmmakers and audiences fascinated for years. Dedication Message The book is dedicated to all my friends in the entertainment industry. I was once part of the new generation of filmmakers and young screenwriters back in the 1990s during that great era of independent filmmakers that helped launched the careers of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. This book is dedicated to my old alumni of indie filmmakers, actors, and writers, a great group of guys and gals that love all types of film genre, and the craft of filmmaking. Introduction...
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...Certification: This is to certify that the following essay is my own work and that I have not received any unauthorized assistance with it. Signed: Michael Raymond, November 30, 2013. “Write an essay interpreting how one rock group or singer's music reflected and/or influenced the 1960s.” Living Dead: The Cultural Impact of the Grateful Dead The decade of the 1960’s saw plenty of musicians become involved in the protest movement. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, among others, wrote of the injustices of American society. While the Beatles were singing “All You Need Is Love”, the Rolling Stones wrote about the “Street Fighting Man”. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sang about the Kent State shootings in “Ohio”. Country Joe McDonald encouraged the burning of draft cards while leading the “Fish Cheer”. However, the degree of influence each had on not just the 1960’s, but ensuing decades waned as burnout, family life, and lifestyle choices took their toll. The act whose music reflected and influenced not just the 60’s, but decades to come, was the Grateful Dead. The music of the Dead reflected the counterculture of the 1960’s, fostered a self-sustaining, traveling multicultural community, and delivered a message of peace and love for thirty years. San Francisco was the center of the counterculture movement of the 1960’s. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood attracted thousands of youths from across the country, looking to drop out of traditional society and build a new society...
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...do not whether I like this film or not. I say this because, the film had a dark yet dry feeling to me. I am not saying that the story was not good. Somehow the film’s sound and effects and plot did not really capture my attention. That being said, I thought that the film had many good qualities to make it a great film for this time. The acting was pretty dry, by that I mean that movements and dialogue were slow at times. My guess is that the director intended to create a feeling of confusion or build a sense of feeling of that of someone with vertigo. The script was good, and it really follows the story it intends to tell, in its dark dramatic ways. It was a drastic way of telling a romantic story, but very much inline with Hitchcock’s The scenes transitions were very fluid, motion, the landscape was complementing to the plot. This film was very diverse in the use of colors, sounds, and especial effects; from the introduction to some of the screenplay action, all of this effect added to the emotion it intended to produce. The locations were suiting to the setting in which the story could be more effective. The actors seemed to be very original or involved into their characters. The editing of this film must have been very complex, especially when the soundtrack had to be match to the scenes. The scenes in which the director wanted to have a special reaction; such as the dreams and the vertigo effect, seemed simple but for the time it must have been thought as a great creation...
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...half star rating out of four and made both positive and negative comments of the movie. Although he gave it a favorable review he also said it was “very good but not great”(Ebert). The problem with Ebert’s review is that he does not review the details of the movie, such as the acting or the set or soundtrack, but critiques the movie only as a whole after a long summary of the film. Gangs of New York was a great movie with a couple of fantastic performances by both Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Roger Ebert’s review did not do it justice. The main problem that I have with Ebert’s review is that he ends with an entire paragraph that compares Gangs of New York with Scorsese’s other films such as GoodFellas and Casino. He says that he does “not think this film is in the first rank of his masterpieces”(Ebert). The problem with that kind of judgment is that Gangs of New York is a completely different kind of movie than Scorsese had ever done before. Ebert is essentially telling us that he likes gangster movies better than historical fiction. I personally do not think that Gangs of New York is one of the greatest movies ever, but I do believe it is a great movie and one of my personal favorites. Bill the Butcher, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is, however, one of the greatest characters in movie history. Day-Lewis plays Bill perfectly, and his personality is so unique in the film. He is sinister and wicked but also witty and humorous, and he is crazy but smart enough to...
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...do not whether I like this film or not. I say this because, the film had a dark yet dry feeling to me. I am not saying that the story was not good. Somehow the film’s sound and effects and plot did not really capture my attention. That being said, I thought that the film had many good qualities to make it a great film for this time. The acting was pretty dry, by that I mean that movements and dialogue were slow at times. My guess is that the director intended to create a feeling of confusion or build a sense of feeling of that of someone with vertigo. The script was good, and it really follows the story it intends to tell, in its dark dramatic ways. It was a drastic way of telling a romantic story, but very much inline with Hitchcock’s The scenes transitions were very fluid, motion, the landscape was complementing to the plot. This film was very diverse in the use of colors, sounds, and especial effects; from the introduction to some of the screenplay action, all of this effect added to the emotion it intended to produce. The locations were suiting to the setting in which the story could be more effective. The actors seemed to be very original or involved into their characters. The editing of this film must have been very complex, especially when the soundtrack had to be match to the scenes. The scenes in which the director wanted to have a special reaction; such as the dreams and the vertigo effect, seemed simple but for the time it must have been thought as a great creation...
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...Major Essay: Question One Musical films have been present in Hollywood since The Jazz Singer (1927) premiered. Mast states that a film is a musical when the primary entertainment and investment lie in the musical numbers (p. 309, Wood, 2008). Musical films are often a beloved or hated genre due to the unrealistic nature of characters erupting into song and dance. This essay analyse four main conventions of the musical genre the spectacle, the narrative, the adaption of established stories and the power the combination of lyrics and music can achieve on screen. Examples from different periods in Hollywood will be used to explore these conventions and how they apply and have evolved to suite conventions of modern cinema. Kellner (2005) explains spectacles have been present in different cultures since pre-modern times. Examples of these spectacles include plays, the Olympics of Ancient Greece, in Ancient Rome public offerings of bread, circuses and gladiator games (Kellner, 2005). The human desire for the spectacle has not fallen into extinction but rather evolved with society and technology. Entertainment has always been a prime field of the spectacle and film has been one of the most productive industries to utilise the spectacle (Kellner, 2005). Hello Dolly (1969), My Fair Lady (1964) and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997) are three examples of film musical spectacles. All three of these movies contain elaborate costumes, bright colours and large dance...
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...Essay on the movie "Pi" (1997) written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Pi is a black and white movie that fits into Classicism form of film. Mathematician Maximillian Cohen (played by Sean Gulette) is a genius who leads a strange and lonely life. He shares a small apartment with Euklid, his homemade supercomputer. He's a mathematical genius who suffers from head-splitting migraine attacks, hallucinations, extreme paranoia, and some form of social anxiety disorder . After many unsuccessful treatments, he has become addicted to several painkillers . He is obsessed to find a pattern within the number pi. He thinks Mathematics is the language of nature, and believes everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers and that if you graph the numbers properly patterns will emerge. Max meets Lenny Meyer (played by Ben Shenkman), a Hasidic Jew who does mathematical research on the Torah. Lenny explains to Max how some people believe that the Torah is a string of numbers that form a code sent by God. Lenny's research is similar to real mathematical theories, which intrigues Max. Lenny also mentions that he and his fellow researchers are searching for a 216-digit number that is repeated throughout the text of the Torah. Max finds the 216-digit number code that he thinks it will unlock patterns in the stock market to predict future changes of how stock will increase or decrease. A Wall Street businesswoman Marcy Dawson (played by Pamela Hart) and a group of...
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...English men and men from colonies extremely difficult, and often risky, to develop. In order to maintain unity and authority, British men identified with one another and supported the discrimination of colonized men. Exceptions to this social routine are evident with characters from Mangal Pandey: The Rising, A Passage to India, and My Beautiful Laundrette. In Mangal Pandey, Pandey and Officer Gordon develop a unique relationship that is often tested by the lack of respect for Indian customs by the British. A Passage to India shows the relationship between Dr. Aziz and Mr. Fielding, which demonstrates the complications of maintaining English identity without succumbing to the exploitation of Indians. A homosexual relationship between Omar and Johnny during the Thatcher Era in Britain is shown in My Beautiful Laundrette. Although the first two films are set in colonized India, they both draw parallels to the difficulties of having a biracial male relationship during post-colonial England. My Beautiful Laundrette also uses the most fascinating cinematic craft to portray male bonding by using unique camera angles and shots in combination with a relevant soundtrack. Based on historical events, Mangal Pandey encompasses a pivotal period for British presence in India. It is vital to understand the strategy of the British in order to analyze a relationship between a British officer and an Indian male. The British acknowledged that they were outnumbered by Indians and used sepoys, or Indian...
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...in pop culture. In my essay, I have decided to compare and contrast the values and characteristics of these two movies. From the first to the second there are the same basic ideas, but so many differences in the characters and events. Christ Lemire describes the old Footloose as a “flood of fond memories” for anyone who grew up in the 1980s. This movie was a true symbol of the growth of pop culture during this time. The main character, played by Kevin Bacon, was a bad boy from big city Chicago. He was forced to move to a small town called Bomont, Utah with his mother into his aunt’s house. All he wanted to do was dance, but it was banned. This had a lot to do with the church and their moral beliefs. The boy meets a rebellious girl and it almost halfway becomes a love story also. His goal in this movie was for the town to put on a prom for the teens in school. He even goes before the town council in order to change the law against dancing. Although he portrays a very good argument and quotes from the bible about how they danced and rejoiced, the council voted against it. The young boy is determined and does not give up. In the end they hold the prom at a grain mill outside of town and everyone has the time of their lives. Now, back in the 1980s this was a bigger deal than we see it today. This could have been a real life epidemic in some places. This movie was like a role model for young people. Kevin Bacon was the crush for young girls, while the soundtrack of the movie played...
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...In my film analysis essay, I want to discuss about the aboriginal “blackfellas” in Australia, and further the masculinity in the company of the “father and son” relationship which are presented in this film. Mad Bastards, a Paramount Pictures film which was filmed in 2010, written and directed by Brendan Fletcher, and starred by Dean Daley-Jones, Lucas Yeeda, and Greg Tait. In addition, Mad Bastards had been nominated for 12 awards, and had won two. Besides, Mad Bastards was an official selection of 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival is an American film festival held annually in Utah, and is the largest independent film festival in the US for American and international independent filmmakers. The festival covers competitive...
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