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Establishing Shot Five Minutes
1,203 wordsThe purpose of the initial scene, while the credits are still rolling, is to introduce us to the abundance of characters, situations and interpersonal relations that take place in an urban setting and to see life beyond the control that its characters have upon it. It observes the inevitable and unpredictable changes in relationships, their evolution and the interactions between the different couples that sometimes enrich but mostly threaten their fragile stability. Altman's camera can be percei...
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Robert Deniro Truck Driver
1,528 wordsIn this masterpiece of a movie from one of the greatest after directors of our times, goodfellas was one of the most captivating movies it has ever been my privilege to watch. Martin Scorsese directed brilliantly in one of his greatest works since raging bull. He got together a wonderful cast of actors who all portrayed very convincing roles. The movie stars Ray Liotta, and co-stars Loraine back, Robert Deniro, and Joe pesci. All three co-stars won Oscar nominations, but it was joe pesci who act...
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Point Of View Fish Tank
1,408 wordsIn thinking of films that are able to exemplify many film elements that are put together in an interesting and organized manner the movie Rumble Fish comes to mind. The director Francis Ford Coppola demonstrates how metaphors are able to help decipher a deeper meaning of the film. Rumble Fish is a film that is about growing up and seeing new things that have never been seen before. The two main characters who are brothers Rusty James and the Motorcycle Boy, experience internal conflicts. Rusty J...
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Photographer Must Adjust Outer Circle Photo
550 wordsTo optimize the quality of ones portrait photos, a photographer must combine a series of camera techniques. A photo is a piece of art used to capture a moment in time. For a photographer to beautify the appearance of the photos he takes, he must know how his camera works. The photographer must adjust his aperture to suit the type of film he has and know how to load the film. Stillness is a key factor in taking a quality photo. If the camera is shaken during the time that the shutter is opening a...
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20 Th Century Advances In Technology
1,292 wordsOver the years film has meant many different things to many different types of people. Cultures have been forever changed due to certain films being made. One of the things that has maintained films to stay appealing to audiences are the continuing advances in technology that keep films interesting, as well as challenge filmmakers to constantly develop new ideas. I will show how technology and the use therein contributes to film and the creative aspect that goes into producing a product that app...
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Agent Smith Fight Scene
1,842 wordsThe moving image and film sequence deconstruction After watching 10 minutes of your select film sequence, carefully analyse a selection of varied camera shots and say what is significant about each one. Also indicate aspect of music, sound effects and special effects that contribute to the film sequence. The award winning sci-fi film Matrix Reloaded totally re-wrote the textbook for movie science fiction when it hit the screens in early 2003. Directed by the Wachowski brothers, The Matrix Reload...
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The Truman Show Image
1,140 wordsDiscuss the use of and creation of images in The Truman Show. Refer specifically to three key scenes. Pay particular attention to the filming techniques used in these scenes. The Truman Show is a film that relies heavily on the use of evocative images. To create these images, the director, Peter Weir uses a number of techniques. The major techniques used throughout the film include camera angles, framing, shot types, camera movement, the style of music and costuming, and sequencing. Combining tw...
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Blair Witch Serial Killer
2,251 wordsQuestioning Reality Mockumentary Mockumentary: Questioning Reality and the Tenets of Documentary Film Itself A mock documentary is successful when it is able to combine both the appearance of historically accurate elements and present believable situations through a false lens, leading the audience to question the reality of what they are seeing. The genre of false documentary aims to present a convincing story through the use of credible documentary tactics to portray a fictional documentary. E...
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Floppy Disk Digital Cameras
532 wordsDigital cameras allow computer users to take pictures and store the photographed images digitally instead of on traditional film. With some digital cameras, a user downloads the stored pictures from the digital camera to a computer using special software included with the camera. With others, the camera stores the pictures directly on a floppy disk or on a PC Card. A user then copies the pictures to a computer by inserting the floppy disk into the disk drive or the PC Card into a PC Card slot. O...
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Martin Luther King Close Up Shot
1,844 wordsThe first scene begins with a close up shot of Senor Love Daddys mouth, the top of a microphone, and an alarm clock. The alarm clock, being used as a prop, is making a very loud, annoying, ringing sound. This is done in order to get the viewers attention to the problem of racism. After the ringing stops, we start reframing in, and zooming out slowly, seeing more of Senor Love Daddy and the microphone. There is hard lighting present in the scene. The entire shot has a reddish color to it. A slow ...
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Saving Private Ryan World War 2
1,204 wordsSaving Private Ryan is a fairly new World War 2 movie, which is a blockbuster hit. It? s about a private named Ryan who lost three of his brothers in action. Being the only brother left in the family he gets the ticket home. He was dropped on D-Day in German occupied territories. Unfortunatly no one knows where he is beacuse of mis drops so a team of eight rangers are sent out o find him. During the mission they go through many hard tasks of war. They also lose two of their men and at one point ...
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Aimed At Children Husband And Wife
1,652 wordsI am going to examine closely the way advertisers aim their Products at certain audiences. The audiences mainly targeted are: v Little children v Teenagers v Ambitious men v Adult women v Couples v Prosperous older women. Advertisements are used to increase the sale of a product and so choosing the right time to show a commercial is vital. A company won? t show an advert aimed at children late at night, when they know their target audience won? t be watching. Children? s products are usually sho...
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Computer Graphics George Lucas
2,933 wordsIS 490 SPECIAL TOPICS Computer Graphics May 6, 1996 Table of Contents Introduction 3 How It Was 3 How It All Began 4 Times Were Changing 6 Industry's First Attempts 7 The Second Wave 10 How the Magic is Made 11 Modeling 12 Animation 13 Rendering 13 Conclusion 15 Bibliography 16 Introduction Hollywood has gone digital, and the old ways of doing things are dying. Animation and special effects created with computers have been embraced by television networks, advertisers, and movie studios alike. Fi...
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Man Of Great Wife
766 wordsTartuffe is a classic story of deceit by one who is trusted and respected. Tartuffe, the deceitful holy man, is living in the house of Oregon. Oregon has opened his doors to Tartuffe, and he greatly respects him for being the good holy man he was thought to be. The rest of the family believe that Tartuffe is a fake and a con. Oregon and Madam Parcelle are the two which believe in his holy reputation. Tartuffe convinces Oregon that he is an incredible man of great holy stature, and Oregon proceed...
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Doesn Acute T Aimed At Children
1,609 wordsI am going to examine closely the way advertisers aim their Products at certain audiences. The audiences mainly targeted are: v Little children v Teenagers v Ambitious men v Adult women v Couples v Prosperous older women. Advertisements are used to increase the sale of a product and so choosing the right time to show a commercial is vital. A company won´ t show an advert aimed at children late at night, when they know their target audience won´ t be watching. Children´ s produc...
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U S Government People Republic Of China
1,237 wordsThe Discoverer Program was a fake to conceal the Corona Program, as a series of photo-reconnaissance spy satellites. Corona was the first photo-reconnaissance program, and the beginnings for military and space imaging programs of today. Corona was developed in secrecy so that the targeted nations wouldn t know what was planned. The U. S. government announced a series of scientific goals, including biological and reentry experiments for space flight, but none were actually planned. The cover was ...
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Prison Guards Taking Place
1,697 wordsPeter Brook and the Film Production of Marat/Sade It is noted within Margaret Croyden's book, Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets, in the extremely interesting and informative tenth chapter, entitled The Achievement of Peter Brook: From Commercialism to the Avant-Garde, that near the start of his career, Brook was attracted to both plays and techniques that expressed human contradiction. He often wondered, though, whether there were any modern playwright who could possibly equal the richness and complex...
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Amusement Parks Nineteenth Century
673 wordsPopular Culture in the 19 th Century During the Nineteenth Century there were several kinds of popular culture that became increasingly popular. I will discuss some of the types commercial entertainment that helped the people of this time have other options to relieve some of the pressures of everyday life. Realistic Theater becomes popular and the invention of the magic lanterns which was an early slide show projectors, which could have been found in dime theaters. Minstrelsy an art form, which...
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Charles Foster Kane One Of The Greatest
793 wordsCitizen Kane By many, Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films ever made. Orson Wells, at age 25, directed, produced, and starred in this film. Citizen Kane is a memorable film for countless reasons. The film brought about controversy because it fictionalized the life of William Randolph Hearst, a powerful newspaper publisher. The film draws remarkable parallels with his life and his relationship with his mistress. There is also speculation that the film is loosely based on Wells life as well. ...
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Male And Female Womens Magazines
2,635 wordsVisual representation of reality, as seen through mass media, is acknowledged by sociologists to be influential in shaping peoples views of the world. Our everyday realities are articulated mostly by what we see in the media. The role of advertising in this interpretation of reality is crucial. The target audiences self-identification with the images being a basic prerequisite for an advertisements effectiveness, makes advertising one of the most important factors in the building of behavior mod...
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