Executive director

Realism is important in creating a character the audience can more easily relate to, which is fundamental to texts attempting to create a reflection on such figures found in the real wold. This higher degree of verisimilitude is a staple of British social realism cinema, which represented characters in a documentary-like manner in order to evoke an audience reconsideration of marginalized or disadvantaged peoples or classes. Andrea Arnold’s film ‘Fish Tank’ (2009) utilises its depiction of place…

/ Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness” (Meyer 3). Some of the only aspects of Theseus that the director adheres to in comparison to the original play was that Theseus was given the choice of judgement in Hermia father’s punishment for her. It is understandable, however, why the director changed the importance of Theseus in the play, as he wanted the audience to focus on the…

The film Slumdog Millionaire was released in year 2008. It was directed by Danny Boyle who is a British Director and achieved eight Oscar awards for quality of performance in the arenas like cinematography, sound mixing, direction, film editing, etc. This movie is adopted from a novel “Q & A” which is written by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The movie is picturized in slum part of Mumbai, Indian background. The movie is a package of motivation, love, tragedy, action, eagerness and…

There is something truly rewarding as a movie fan, when a talented actor, good and entertaining in a number of roles, finally breaks out and taps into greatness. In Matt Spicer's feature film debut, Ingrid Goes West, Aubrey Plaza gives her finest performance yet as a woman caught up in the instant gratification world of social media. In a role that could be full of formulaic meltdowns and tired cinematic tropes, she creates a character who is selfish and dangerous, yet generates empathy and…

I never knew that there would be that many differences between a book and a movie made in Hollywood. The epic story I’m comparing and contrasting is known as the first English epic written in 1000 A.D. referred to Beowulf. In class we read the epic story of Beowulf and watched the movie Beowulf and were assigned to write an essay comparing and contrasting the book from the movie. When learning more about the epic story and looking beyond the words, the story shows more than an epic hero, it…

The Fall is a wonderful movie directed by Tarsem Singh. Tarsem Singh is a director who has directed several movies of varying success. The Cell. Mirror, Mirror. Immortals. And, most recently, Self/Less. Before this movie was made, Singh had made a small fortune directing music videos and television commercials. Instead of going wild and indulging, he put all of the money towards making this film. And it shows. It really shows. This movie radiates passion and love. On the surface, The Fall is a…

To manipulate one’s audience, one must “give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” Award-winning director, Christopher Nolan clearly portrays this in his films through his trademark directorial style of editing with specific use of non-linear narrative and mise en scene to create tension for his audience Through closely analysing the open scenes of Nolan’s Memento (2000) and Inception (2010), the audience can understand Nolan’s directorial style and the…

Companies employing this theory of governance shareholders hire Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and “incentivize [them] to adequately monitor their output and motivate superior performance” (Martin and Butler 2017). One major role for agents and principals operating under this theory is to align their goals to avoid conflict;…

In an interview with Chris Dickens (Editor of Shaun Of The Dead) Dickens states that when an editor is choosing shots they are choosing the shots they like. It is a matter of taste, but what creates that taste is the understanding of the meaning and purpose of that film in such detail that your choices are made with purpose that aids the film effectively (HDFilmtools, 2009). Dickens statement summarizes the importance of the knowledge behind filmmaking and how the editor needs to do research on…

Lino Brocka’s best-known film, Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag, is arguably the most complicated work in Philippine cinema. Translated as “Manila in the Claws of Neon” and “Manila: in the Claws of Darkness” to foreign audiences, the film made it in some international critics’ lists as one of the most important films ever made. The indecision in providing a more accurate translation sheds light to the uncertainty of the film’s characters, their fates bounded by Manila’s luminescence and…