RESEARCH My coursework task was to create a new film, featuring a trailer, storyboard; at least one promotional poster and DVD cover. I had free choice over my genre and I chose to use musical documentary because it’s a genre I’ve watched many films on. This made research pleasurable, because I was adding to my existing knowledge on a topic I already felt comfortable with. One feature I found in most of the films I watched was the idea of a musical journey or adventure, with many twists and turns
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Two Australian films both set 1950s based on true stories ‘shine’ directed by Scott Hicks and ‘swimming upstream’ directed by Russell Mulcahly. In both films, there is an inter connection through filmic techniques, the theme of the relationship between the father, the son and character devolvement. Through filmic techniques and images shine and swimming upstream connect with the action scene. David presents an intense piano piece called the Rachmanioff piano concert no 3, and tony competes in the
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assignment this week was to compare the effects of color versus black-and-white in films. Learning Team B selected Spider-Man 2 as the color film, and The Maltese Falcon as the black-and-white film. While referencing the influence of color and black-and-white imagery, we will examine the following topics: How color or black-and-white… • Contributed to the expression of each film • Influenced the atmosphere of the films • Affected characterization • Provided transitional changes • Helped mirror
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creature enters into a peaceful community and disrupts the calm. Burton, however, changes the horror genre and on many occasions turns the audience upside down by presenting a mixture of horror, comedy, romance and fairytale. Even before watching the film, a person knows that it is not a complete horror. The advance publicity for Edward Scissorhands used the phrase 'the story of an unfinished gentle man' and posters showed a picture of a gloomily dark Edward with a butterfly resting on one of the sharp
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Evan (August Rush) throughout the entire movie, as he was on his journey in search of his parents, inspired so much people through his talent in music. People such as Arthur, Wizard, Hope, and many others whom he encountered during his journey. Not only he is an expert in hearing any kind of sound and music, but he can pick up whatever any kind of instrument so quickly, such as when Evan played Wizard's guitar, which he named "Roxanne" or "Roxy", is not the way it is usually played. Instead, Evan
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that amateur people are now taking part in making professional products are sharing them to an audience. Examples of this are people like Soulja boy who made a song and music video, released it on Youtube and people took notice to it, after which he got picked up by a record company and started to get recognized globally. In the film
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I attended a performance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing music made by Danny Elfman for Tim Burton films. Each piece focused more on capturing the mood the music captured in that overall movie. Instead of focusing on one composition from each movie, a medley of multiple compositions from the film was made to give an overall feel of each. Compared to the Mozart’s “Little Night Music” performance I attended a week ago, the atmosphere was more relaxed. The patrons for this specific event
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The Film Industry in Europe Mass media as a whole are diversified media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication. There are many mass media such as broadcast (radio, television), print media (newspapers, magazines, and books), recorder music, digital media (internet) and outdoor media (billboards). But we will be particularly interested in the media of cinema and films which is one of the most famous. That’s why at first we will have a look on the film industry
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The film ‘Run Lola Run’ directed by Tome Tykwer depicts various themes associated with mise-en-scene. Each theme provides unique elements to the two major components of mise-en-scene; design and composition. Every scene is characterized by urgency, and by creating this mood, the film is able to convey a feeling of expectation through hinting at things to come. It is through expectation that, time, setting and character relationship are able to govern much of what unfolds during the course of the
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Les Bonnes Femme (The Girls) is a great film with shocking twists. It starts out slowly with Jane and Jacqueline meeting two guys who they hangout with for the night. That is until Jacqueline, who isn’t much of a partier, decides to go home. Jane, being the outgoing, fun and easy one, decides to go home with the two guys, which ends as a terrible night for her. At work all of the girls begin to notice a man on a motorcycle to has been stalking Jacqueline since a few nights before. The girls hardly
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