Executive director

people simply require a shoulder to lean upon, or a person to enjoy themselves with. Donald Clifton, the CEO of the Gallup Institute, refers to the close-knit group of people who provide a person with these services as one’s “Board of Directors for Life”. My Board of Directors consists of loved ones who support my endeavors, provide emotional and social support, and who ensure my enjoyment. These individuals include: my mother, Irene; my father, Miguel; my two brothers, Miguel and Alan;…

production work: screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, etc. The director is one of the most important elements and his or her interpretation of a screenplay can make or break a film. As stated in Persistence of Vision: An Introduction to Film Appreciation, “An auteur is a director that has garnered enough influence that they have total artistic control over the entire production (Miller 54).” Here we will be discussing one such director, M. Night Shyamalan and his low-budget film Split…

The Dark Knight is a superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan. Throughout the film many themes and ideas are presented in many significant scenes. The director used various techniques to present those themes and ideas. The scene I have chosen to analyse is the Joker Interrogation scene because the purpose of this scene is to discover the inner side of Joker, along with his mindset. The aspects I chose to analyse are lighting, camera work, dialogue, and The lighting plays a particularly…

Brown, Charles B. "Somnambulism. A Fragment." The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume 1, edited by Paul Lauter, D.C. Health and Company, 1990, pages 1165-1177. This short story was written my Charles Brown and published in May of 1805. This story set the precedent for America Gothic short stories. It influenced many Gothic writers one of them being Poe. Like many Goth short stories that followed this story had the death of a beautiful woman. It also had a male protagonist who was…

Having viewed the video, "The Future of Corporate Governance," you might question how corporate governance can better serve an organization 's commitment to being ethical and acting legal. After all, most of the organizations which were "guilty" of financial and accounting mismanagement had corporate governance. But in some instances, the system of corporate governance was tainted by conflicts of interest, personal greed, and so on. So, in addition to what you learned in the video, what is the…

and have those asking morally challenging questions. It must feel real, it must excite and enthrall its audience, and create a passion for the film from the opening scene. This is a difficult task to achieve by any director, and in my opinion, Baz Luhrmann has evolved into such a director who has achieved these things, however it has taken him a few films to reach this objective. A Postmodern film can be described with a few main characteristics: 1. Its playfulness and self-reference – drawing…

The Three Idiots (2009) is the best film I ever watched in my life. Not only the film that interesting done, but also its contents which interpret many society problems through the story. This essay is written about what messages I have received from this film. Including how those messages related to the development. First of all, the pressure from society and family. There are many scenes which talking and showing the audience about how serious the characters are suffer with their education…

In order to understand why Christopher Nolan as a director is, nowadays, considered as an auteur, it is important to rehash the French film critics’, of Cahiers du cinéma, theory of the auteur. “Astruc argued that cinema was potentially a means of expression as subtle and complex as written language. He argued that cinema too was a language, ‘a form in which and by which an artist can express his thoughts, however abstract they may be, or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in a…

It was an old fact that actresses would sleep with directors o get a part of the movie but in BowFinger it taken to an outrageous level where she sleeps with a lesbian by the end of the movie. The illegal immigrants were also interesting seeing how they first introduced and by the end of the movie they already…

First Motion Pictures by The Lumiere Brothers With the invention of the Cinematographe, Auguste and Louis Lumiere were the pioneers to hold one of the first screenings of, also, the first motion picture in the world, which also gives birth to the implementation of charging for admission to which we have until today. In Paris, December of 1895, the first screenings of the Brothers’ movie was held at the “Salon Indien du Grand Café”. Salon Indien was in fact, a rather small sized hall that…