Sequence Analysis In the art of film making, it's imperative a director and the filming crew use all resources available to effectively portray the situation the actors are simulating. With a blend of certain stylistic elements, a quickly crafted set can become a new world and a narrative can become a reality to the audience. In Goodfellas “The Date Sequence” is brought to life with a masterful use of both cinematography and sound. The graceful blend between these two elements, as well as others, draws in viewers and drives forth the narrative. Within the first few seconds of the date sequence, viewers are given a stylized over the should shot at Ray Liotta, allowing the audience to seamlessly adapt to his character's narration and the scene at hand.
Prof. Helen Roulston ENG 313: History of Cinema 3. Explain why one or more films have been important in the development of the cinema. Griffith Is to Film as Plato Is to Philosophy In my second week’s journal entry, I wrote out a commentary and reflection to our watching Birth of a Nation. It really struck me how much of an effect this film had on both its culture and on the history of cinema. Both factors are incredible to fathom.
Hi-5 is very much concerned with image, consumerism and technology, and as seen in the opening credits, it immediately reinforces the main purpose of entertainment. The vibrant colours which are almost fluorescent and the psychedelic patterns delve its four plus, female skewed audience into a state of euphoria, somewhat imitating the scene at a disco. The opening credits heavily feature their Hi-5 logo, which in turn is an insidious form of product placement. Whereas Hi-5’s priority is to create excitement and sell product through setting and music, Play School’s aim is to provide emotional support assisting in the children’s intellectual and social development. Play School is filmed in a studio resembling
Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema INTRODUCTION During the course of this essay it is my intention to discuss the differences between Classical Hollywood and post-Classical Hollywood. Although these terms refer to theoretical movements of which they are not definitive it is my goal to show that they are applicable in a broad way to a cinema tradition that dominated Hollywood production between 1916 and 1960 and which also pervaded Western Mainstream Cinema (Classical Hollywood or Classic Narrative Cinema) and to the movement and changes that came about following this time period (Post-Classical or New Hollywood). I intend to do this by first analysing and defining aspects of Classical Hollywood and having done that, examining post classical at which time the relationship between them will become evident. It is my intention to reference films from both movements and also published texts relative to the subject matter. In order to illustrate the structures involved I will be writing about the subjects of genre and genre transformation, the representation of gender, postmodernism and the relationship between style, form and content.
War itself has been an ever-present around the world across thousands of years and has, as the years progressed, evolved and shaped the world in many ways. Be it in the pursuit of dominance by invasion, revolution against tyranny or freedom from oppressive forces, war has always managed to be a major part of political life, an endgame tactic or a show of power and force. With the rise of mass communications and media a new avenue and direction for war has come to light. Film in particular has taken this stance and through film you have seen this last century a rise in public participation and/or condemnation in the war process. No longer can a government wage a war with disregard of the consequences, through the avenue of film the public are able to make their own voices and perceptions heard and broadcast to the masses.
The "N-word", as we are still likely to refer to it, is a cause for great distress among people of all ethnic cities and background. As he seen the film the "N-word" using it has become increasingly popular and increasingly controversial. What once was a use as a catch all for all dark skinned people and spat out with derision, is now used freely among blacks and whites, and even Asians and Hispanics, as a term of endearment. Particularly in America, where this world likely carried the most way when it was first coined, received a steady rise in its use in the camaraderie sense. This film is a common example of the power words can hold and who exactly should wield that power and when.
According to Ph.D. research sociologist Brian Uzzi of Northwestern University, movie buzz can often help a film become a blockbuster hit. Certain movies seem to creep into the airwaves and receive constant chatter from news organizations, online sites, talk-show hosts and radio DJs. This can occur even before a film has been officially released. When the movie buzz hits a certain critical mass through this word-of-mouth marketing, suddenly audiences will want to see it and it becomes a blockbuster The success of a film's opening weekend is often considered one of the benchmarks for its blockbuster status. Studios carefully stage advertising campaigns with posters, press interviews, billboards and sneak previews before a movie's official open over a weekend or holiday.
Particular kinds of music or camera angles may be used to encourage certain emotions. Verbal language, makes meaningful statements in media languages consist of "classic choices" and "syntagmatic combinations". By analyzing these languages, one can come to a better understanding of how meanings are created. A. Meanings: How does media use different forms of language to convey ideas or meanings? B.
Music makes a film, a movie as well as an animated cartoon more interesting by bring out audiences’ emotion, introducing and setting a tone of a movie, dictating characters’ action, and misleading audiences. It expresses characters’ feelings, actions, and a film’s tensions (King, n.d., Watkins, 2013, and A Brief Discourse, 2008). Due to the fact that music raises human emotion, it is that music plays an important role in film (Picardi, 2013). Music makes a film more significant. It provides the audiences with the connection of emotion, character, and situation.
The comment made reference to the song May it Be, by Enya, included in the Original Soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings, and located within the so-called 'new age' (Williams, 2009) in Irish traditional music (ITM). It is interesting to observe how this music is often used in cinema, and the different ways in which it is presented: since its strictly traditional use in the performances of The Dubliners and Chieftains, until its mix with new technologies in the new age of Enya, or its transformation in Western Classical music with compositions such James Horner's ones. Thus, in regard to the initial quote, we can say that if it is an exaggeration, it remarks the important role of music in films and it is useful to introduce this work. The following paper deals with the symbolic function of ITM in no Irish cinema, principally from Hollywood. It is going to be handled Merrien and Sonnenschein's definitions of symbol, and previous studies about the use of traditional music in cinema.