...How are the codes and conventions of the thriller genre used to engage responders in two of the thriller texts you have studied in this module? Thriller is an engaging genre of text, characteristically making the responder react in a way that reflects their own values and experiences. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest 1959) and The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, The Bourne Identity 2002) are examples of effective thriller texts. In these two texts, the responder is engaged with unease, worry and satisfaction through the protagonist’s characterisation, iconography, film technique and themes. In both North by North West and the Bourne Identity the protagonist is a dominant and capable male. This capability positions us...
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...How far can Alfred Hithcock’s unique styles and themes classify him as the ‘perfect auteur’? Alfred Hitchcock is frequently acknowledged as an ultimate example of an auteur from the themes and techniques displayed by his films. The film master is a father of mystery, suspense, and nerve shaking scenes as well as other themes like sexuality, roles of women and voyeurism. His work is highly stamped by thematic and stylistic devices and their consistency, personal aesthetic vision, inveterate themes and a defined view of the real world which attracts his audience. In his structure and content of the screenplay he is able to create moods which are sustained and shifted manipulate audience desires and fears; apply economy and wit and many other characteristics that make him a special auteur to be dealt on. Amazingly he is able to transcend the artistic challenges of studios and make highly personalized films that bear the stamp of his art personality rather than just sitting as a director. Hitchcock can be defined as an auteur through his films which is marked by his mastery of cinema techniques which is very unique and an exception from other film makers which is displayed in his use of camera viewpoints, elaborate editing and soundtrack to build some thematic instances such as suspense. Example of...
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...stressful climax Examples of Thriller Films: * The Great Escape: A large group of POW’s plan an escape from a German camp in WW2 * The Silence of the Lambs: An FBI agent develops relationship with the notorious serial killer in order to fain his assistance in the hunt for another serial killer * North By Northwest: Mistaken for a government agent by foreign spies, an advertising agent travels cross-country trying to survive. Sub-Genres of Thriller: * Action: uses physical action to create suspense. (Die Hard, Kill Bill Vol,1, The Bourne Identity ) * Crime: incorporates the suspenseful aspects of a thriller with a crime plot. (Jagged Edge) * Film-Noir: stylistic type of crime-drama or thriller that was popular in 1940-1950. Is characterized by a black and white style with stark lighting effects. Main character is usually a cynical hero. (Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, Sweet Smell of Success) * Psychological: incorporates elements of drama and mystery (Memento, Rear Window, Taxi Driver) * Science Fiction: incorporates hypothetical, science-based themes into plot of film. (Aliens, Inception, District 9) * Religious: incorporates religious themes, questions, ceremonies and objects. (The Ninth Gate, The Da Vinci...
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...It is speculated to have been initially constructed around the early 9th century and is a product of various additions and renovations over the course of a millennia, most of which were done in the 12th century. The complex consists of “476 separate vaults” and spans over 150 meters from north to south. From above, the masjid resembles an abstract beehive due to its hundreds of brick and stucco domed chambers. The Masjid-I Jami is a construction of a courtyard and four iwans set into a façade of two tiers of arches [Figs. 1 and 3] with a small fountain in the center of the courtyard. The southern Sanctuary Iwan—or qibla iwan—and West Iwan [Fig. 1] are both nearly square in composition, while the other two are more exaggerated on the vertical axis. The entire complex is skewed slightly for the mihrab in the qibla iwan to face Mecca, as well as due to its location in relation to the buildings around it. A.T. Mann states, “Because Mecca is where heaven and earth meet, all prayers and sacred places on earth face in its direction...
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...The fast melting Arctic region has emerged as a conflicting and controversial topic for many countries. Due to the increasing effects of global warming, the Arctic icecap is said to be melting faster than expected. The meltdown has decreased the area covered by ice, substantially reducing the Arctic icecap to only half the size it was 50 years ago. This irreversible warming can be seen as beneficial due to its great economic potential and has consequently provided the Arctic with strong regional significance. This global issue of climate change is presenting numerous challenges to Canada and the United States. The Yukon Territory and Alaska, both located in the northwest, are directly experiencing the consequences of this meltdown. The neighboring allies will definitely witness a change in their special relationship while combating this issue of climate change. The three fronts which affect the Canada and U.S. relationship are environmental degradation in Alaska and Yukon, sovereignty and border disputes, and lastly the battle for the natural resources in the Arctic. The two approaches which will facilitate in comprehending and further analyzing these issues are realism and complex interdependence. Realism describes international politics as a struggle for power dominated by organized violence in an anarchic international system. Complex interdependence challenges the realist assumption while synthesizing elements of realism and liberalism. Complex interdependence rejects...
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...contributed to the extraordinary success of Starbucks in the early 1990’s. First, the long-term vision was to create a coffee chain that would become America’s “third place”. People needed a third place outside of home and work where they could sit, relax, and enjoy their time alone or with others. Second, as soon as Howard Schultz took over as the Starbucks Owner, he began opening several new stores in key locations throughout Chicago and the northwest. Soon after, Shultz decided to take the company public. Doing so boosted the company tremendously in the right direction by raising $25 million and allowing even more stores to be opened. Lastly, despite great success, Starbucks spent nothing on advertising freeing up even more money towards other company resources at the time. These factors were of key importance in boosting Starbucks success in the 1990’s. Most importantly, Starbucks had a compelling value proposition for the company that created and developed the brand image of Starbucks. It was best explained by its “live coffee” theme that expressed the importance of keeping the coffee culture alive and creating an attractive experience that people could inject into their busy everyday lives. The brand developed with three key components that have formed to become the image of Starbucks Coffee. First, was the coffee itself. Starbucks takes pride it serving the highest quality coffee in the world. Second, is the service that Starbucks offers or what they call “customer intimacy”...
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...Music: Play Superman main theme audio, from live orchestra. (0:00-1:26) {Fade music out} Narrator Trevor Withers: Music has always been an important part of film. Soundtracks in Film allow the mood to be set for a particular scene, or In the beginning stages of film before the invention of “talking film” music was used in silent films to demonstrate mood, event or element. Music: {Fade in Music from Birth of the nation} Narrator TW: The first film to have a specific score written for it was Birth of a Nation. The majority of silent films were accompanied by anything from full orchestras to organists and pianists Music: {Cross layer Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator music from the globe scene} Narrator TW: The 1920’s saw the establishment...
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...Arts and industry were important sculptural representations that were opportunities for a coherent and didactic image of cultural value. Figures that represented multiple roles within the community, such as chemistry, agriculture and art appeared in friezes of historical narrative and grouped allegories. Figures representing winds, human qualities, cultural concepts and arts were all present in the design. The East side of the building the figures represented maritime industry and agriculture, the west was devoted to engineering, painting, architecture, astronomy, dance and communication. The north contains only a monk and a scholar with law as the theme in the northwest. F.C. Fehr designed the south façade with full-length historical and allegorical figures, which represent wisdom, education, shipping, law, truth, music, Britannia, sculpture, government literature and architecture. The eastern side of the façade depicts Jane Grey at Syon House and King John and the Magna Carta on the western side of the façade. Both of these historical acts occurred in Middlesex. The building had purpose, a guildhall for the community, which may have been a medieval concept at the...
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...representation C. Initial skirmishes 1. Writs of assistance against smuggling 2. Proclamation of 1763 3. Sugar Act 4. Revenue Act 5. Currency Act D. Stamp Act crisis 1. Provisions of Stamp Act 2. Indignation in colonies 3. Taxation and representation; increasing opposition a. Virginia resolutions b. Stamp Act Congress c. Boycott of British goods d. Public demonstrations e. Committees of Correspondence f. Sons of Liberty g. Crowd actions 4. Breadth of opposition a. Colonial elites b. Middling ranks c. Laboring classes 5. Repeal of Stamp Act; passage of Declaratory Act E. Internal colonial disputes 1. Tenant uprising in Hudson Valley 2. Tenant uprising in Green Mountains 3. Regulators in South Carolina 4. Regulators in North Carolina II. The road to revolution A. Townshend crisis 1. Provisions of Townshend duties 2. Colonial response, home-spun virtue a. Revival of boycott on British goods b. American-made goods as symbol of resistance c. Reawakening of popular protest B. Boston Massacre 1. Stationing of troops in Boston 2. The massacre 3. Popular indignation C. An uneasy calm 1. Repeal of Townshend duties; withdrawal of troops from Boston 2. Lifting of boycott 3. Persisting suspicions of Britain 4. John Wilkes controversy 5. Anglican church rumors D. Tea and Intolerable Acts 1. Tea Act a. Roots in global commercial developments b. Contents 2. Colonial response a. Resistance in ports b. Boston Tea...
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...the UK in 2005 and at the Deepwater Horizon Drilling Rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The purpose of the case study is to provided analysis framework of the two cases and compare and contrast the root causes of the incidents and responses taken to the emergencies, the study will identify common themes and lessons learned from the incidents. In particular, issues relating to inherent safety of the design, operating procedures, human factors and the preparedness for protection of staff and emergency responders. Overview Both Buncefield & Deepwater Horizon fall within the oil and gas industry and the study identifies findings that are lacking within a multibillion dollar industry and which could and should have been prevented. Early in the morning of Sunday the 11th December 2005 an explosion, followed by a fire engulfed the Buncefield fuel storage depot, the fire was to turn out as Britain’s biggest peacetime blaze. Unleaded fuel was being pumped into one of the storage tanks on the site, safeguards on the tanks failed, none of the duty staff were aware that the capacity of the tank had been breached. The site is situated near the town of Hemel Hempstead, 25 miles northwest of London; it is sited in a residential and small industrial business area. The site and surrounding area was destroyed, there were casualties but no loss of life. On the 20th April 2010 a catastrophic explosion occurred and tore through the Deepwater Horrizon Drilling Rig, which at the time was...
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...INTRODUCTION Selangor is one of the 13 states in Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west. It completely surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. The origin of the name Selangor is lost in history, although some source claim the name to have come from the Malay word selangau, which gives the meaning of a large fly, most probably due to the abundance of flies in the marshes along the Selangor River in the state’s northwest. Another more plausible theory claims the state’s name was derived from the term Selang Ur meaning “land of the straits” (ur means “land” in Tamil, selang means “straits” in the Malay language). Selangor is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan (“Abode of Sincerity”). Selangor is hailed as the gateway to Malaysia, given its strategic location to all major travel routes. It is home to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the country’s main entry point and Port Klang, the largest port in Malaysia. There is an extensive network of highways and expressways in the state, making all parts of Selangor easily accessible. The location of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city and Putrajaya, the new federal administrative centre within the bounds of the state further enhances the touristic appeal of Selangor. The magnificent Kota Darul Ehsan Arch along the Federal Highway welcomes visitors...
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...The Five Geographic Elements of Canada The name “Canada” is derived from the First Nation’s word “Kanata” meaning land or village (-Wikipedia Name of Canada). Canada is colossal, it is the second largest country on earth and the most substantial in North America (-World Atlas). This vast, frigid northern country has a population of 34,834,841 people. Canada has been independently governed since 1867. The Canadian flag is white with a large red maple leaf in the center. The capital city of Canada is Ottawa, which contains 1.208 million citizens. Together Canada and Alaska make up the upper portion of North America. The primary languages in Canada are English and French. (- CIA World Factbook) Geography accounts for a sizable section of Canada’s...
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...Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood (1935) and especially The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Sea Hawk (1940), as well as Charles Gerhardt's Anthony Adverse (1936) and Sam Wood's Kings Row (1942). Max Steiner explored many different moods, sensational in Ernest Schoedsack's King Kong (1933), one of the first soundtracks to rely heavily on sound effects, pathetic in Victor Fleming's Gone With The Wind (1939), including Tara and countless references to traditional songs, exotic in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942), melodramatic in Irving Rapper's Now Voyager (1942), gloomy in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), epic in John Ford's The Searchers (1956), romantic in Delmer Daves' A Summer Place (1959), whose instrumental theme was a massive hit for Percy Faith's orchestra, etc. He also scored Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946), John Huston's Key Largo (1948), Raoul Walsh's White Heat (1949). Roy Webb (the New Yorker among all these foreigners)...
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...Origin International Company Marketing Plan Fort Hays State University Shenyang Normal University Spring 2011 Table of Contents Situation Analysis……...........................................................................................3 History of the Company…………………………………………………………3 Mission…………………………………………………………………………..4 Goal……………………………………………………………………………...4 Marketing Environment………………………………………………………….4 Core Competencies ………………………………………………………....4 Controllable Factors…………………………………………………………4 Uncontrollable Factors………………………………………………………5 Target Market Description ………………………………………………………6 SWOT……................................................................................................................12 Marketing Strategies……………………………………………………………..13 Product Description and the Competition……………………………………….13 Placing…………………………………………………………………………...20 Pricing…………………………………………………………………………...23 Promotion………………………………………………………………………..25 Primary research…………………………………………………………….27 Packaging …………………………………………………………………..30 Advertising………………………………………………………………….32 Conclusion…............................................................................................................35 Bibliography…….....................................................................................................36 Appendix ……...........................................................................................................38 Press release………………………………………………………………………38 ...
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...Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood (1935) and especially The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Sea Hawk (1940), as well as Charles Gerhardt's Anthony Adverse (1936) and Sam Wood's Kings Row (1942). Max Steiner explored many different moods, sensational in Ernest Schoedsack's King Kong (1933), one of the first soundtracks to rely heavily on sound effects, pathetic in Victor Fleming's Gone With The Wind (1939), including Tara and countless references to traditional songs, exotic in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942), melodramatic in Irving Rapper's Now Voyager (1942), gloomy in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), epic in John Ford's The Searchers (1956), romantic in Delmer Daves' A Summer Place (1959), whose instrumental theme was a massive hit for Percy Faith's orchestra, etc. He also scored Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946), John Huston's Key Largo (1948), Raoul Walsh's White Heat (1949). Roy Webb (the New Yorker among all these foreigners)...
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