George Lucas put together an all-start team of staff to produce Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1981. Lucas had thought of the idea years earlier but had been sidelined in directing other movies. Producers were Frank Marshall and Howard Kazanjian. Writers were George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan responsible for the screenplay.
Science Fiction: A Look in the Future The last century saw numerous genres and subgenres emerge in cinema in a highly diversified society. The way science fiction conveys its themes make this genre one of the most imaginative and controversial in film. Much people around the world enjoy watching science fiction films. These movies help audiences to escape from their own world and visit other realities whether to open their minds or give appreciation to the unreal. In this genre, there are few movies which stand out more than Metropolis and Blade Runner.
That is when films started to tell a story with an established beginning, middle and end and using various techniques to put the viewer into the film and reveal the story key points through the plot and story and their durations, characters, space and time. As most of the classical Hollywood films, credits sequences are often used “to initiate the film narration” (Bordwell and Staiger and Thompson, 1985, p.25). Here in Mildred Pierce, the opening credits sequence showing us the Warner Bros logo, who is known for his gangster and melodrama movies, and then the waves washing
Joseph Carl Breil was the composer of all the original scores for The Birth of a Nation. Breil created music specific to the scenes and mood that D.W. Griffith wanted to portray to the audience. 2. The film Casablanca use sources music throughout its entirety to accomplish several things. Casablanca takes place during World War II with a storyline that bounces around from scenes in Paris, Morocco and New York.
During this analysis I intend on identifying who all took part in production as well as how the different elements that form the mise-en-scène help create the mood and the overall appearance of the movie (scene). When people think of a movie they automatically ask “Who are the actors?” or “Who is the director or producer?” To be honest there are hundreds of people involved in making movies and the majority of them are behind the scenes and have something to do with the production of the movie. To give credit where credit is due, the identification of the production team is a must. Without the creator the production team would not have a movie to produce. Stephanie Meyer is the author of the original book series.
Chris Columbus; Director and producer Chris Columbus is very well known for his many successful films. Columbus was born on September 10th, 1958 in town called Spangler in Pennsylvania but he was raised in Ohio. He pursued his passion for filmmaking at New York University enrolled in Tisch School of the Arts. He worked on filmmaking for many years before his big break as a producer in one of Steven Spielbergs films. Soon after working with Spielberg, Columbus began directing movies of his own.
Some of the first directors to be granted auteur status by the Cahiers du Cinema critics were directors like Howard Hawks, John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock. Eventually the list expanded to include the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra, Jean Renoir and many more (Brody 2013). Since then the list has expanded to modern day directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton. The latter of which will be my focus for this essay. Timothy Walter Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California, United States (Tim Burton biography [Sa])- making him literally a child (and later director) of Hollywood.
Why do people go to the movies? People go to the movies for the “experience.” Moviegoers describe the attraction of going to the theater as an experience based on the gigantic screen and that theatrical surround sound system, an opportunity to get out of the house for the purpose of entertainment, as a location for a date and not having to wait till a particular movie come out on Home Video before they have a chance to see it. The “movie going” experience has changed tremendously over the last few years with the rise of many substitutes in the home video viewing options from premium cable channels like HBO, Showtime, Starz and Encore to online streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Video-On-Demand as well as other alternatives like Google’s Play movie store and YouTube to Apple’s own movie store, embedded in its iTunes. Customers are experiencing an entertainment overload and can easily access these mediums on the Smartphones, internet connected laptops, tablets, game consoles and even on their televisions. And because most of these devices are readily available and at a reasonable price, customers, across all economic standing, are easily converting their living rooms to a mini-theater with the addition of a reasonable priced surround sound audio system and a large screen television and from the comfort of their homes, they can duplicate the experience with their preferred brand of soda and popcorn and also have the ability to pause in-between scenes, something that they are not able to do in a theater.
“Compare the marketing campaign of Skyfall to that of Monsters’ Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes was a huge box office hit, making over $20 million in the opening weekend alone. It was realeased November 9th 2012 and still manages to have people talking about it today. Skyfall premired in London at the Royal Albert hall on October 23rd and grossed over $951 million worldwide. This was achieved due to the long hours and the large amount of money inviested into making this film. Also the marketing campaign played a big part in this success, as It is the lifeblood that can either make or break a film.
Asian American Theatre To a further degree than Europeans or Africans, the voices of Asian Americans have been unheard, even though their cultures are so rich in the theater experience. One of the reasons is that Asian theater, similar to that of Native Americans, differs greatly from Western Theater. In 1980, however, Asian American graduated from workshop status to that of something prestigious as Theatre. Therefore, it gave them an opportunity to join the mainstream, “that of which generates enthusiasm, role model, and a new pool of artistry” to its audience (Gussow, 50) For decades, Asians were usually denied entry into mainstream regional theater except as one-dimensional stereotypes. Language barriers and the marked dissimilarity