and reliably deliver animated features for world’s top filmmakers and studios. Looking ahead we have a keen view on focus on subsequent projects in an on-going collaboration with an independent feature film production company (Comic Animation). IP – Cinesite has a service agreement with an independent film and digital content development and production group (Comic Animation) who are a creative and passionate bunch, focusing on developing an eclectic slate of feature films, which will be…
Reality is something humans define through sensory perception –what and how we see and hear all help create our experiences. Throughout the ages, storytelling been an art practiced by many and has taken several forms in order to appeal to these senses through such media as books, paintings, music, and film. When filmmaking first became an artistic medium capable of producing compelling stories, it took over one hundred years to reach the point technological advances the industry has reached…
The Girl by the Roadside is a 1917 Bluebird Photoplay crime drama presented by seasoned veterans of the film industry, including director, Theodore Marston, a former theater actor, who transitioned to film and directed several crime dramas, including 1918’s Beyond the Law, and one of Universal’s most popular actresses, Violet Mersereau, whose career spanned eighteen years from 1908-1926. The Girl by the Roadside functions as a cultural mediator, processing and addressing the complex social…
Initially I had planned to interview Kunal Savkur, but after he did not respond to my attempts to contact him, I had to get a bit creative. I reached out to several people on LinkedIn and I received responses from three of them. Two agreed to respond via email, and one agreed to a phone interview. I conducted the phone interview with Zel Anders and I am still awaiting the email responses from the other two women I contacted. Zel Anders has worked as a producer, screenwriter, and director.…
In 2012, Destin Daniel Cretton penned and directed his first feature length film, Short Term 12. Following the lives of employees working at a residential treatment facility in California, Short Term 12 offers a pensive albeit uplifting glance at both the at-risk teenagers living within the facility, as well as the employees taking care of them. There are countless reasons to enjoy this exemplary film, such as the way nearly every character is written to be believable, and complex. Another is…
In this paper, it will be argued that Cadez’s (2011) Strategy, strategic management accounting and performance: A Configurational Analysis, is an interesting but challenging piece of research. The argument will be developed through a critical review of Cadez’s paper, discussing in turn its research methods, and practical implications. The paper reports a study of 254 of the largest Slovenian manufacturing companies although only 109 were usable. The research is concerned with manufacturing…
Efficiency - enhancing practices that Nike is pursuing are as following: a) Economies of scale – defined as “reduction in unit costs attributed to a large output” (Hill, Jones & Schilling 2015, p.119). Nike is the single largest producer of athletic footwear and apparel. This allows Nike, through the large scale of outputs, to achieve a large cost advantages over its competition. b) Learning effects – defined as “cost saving that come from learning by doing” (Hill, Jones & Schilling 2015,…
Braum’s Incorporated is a vertically integrated company, owns multiple segments of the industry and merges them together, which allows them to produce their products with the quality and standards they want. The corporation produces meat, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables. They have 280 stores located throughout Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, and the majority located in Oklahoma, where their headquarters are (About Us 2016). The chains of stores located in these areas provide hamburgers…
Abstract—The idea of Riemann integration is now popular and very helpful in mathematics. In this paper we explore the background of mathematicians Henri Lebesgue, Peter Gustav Lejeune-Dirichlet and Bernhard Riemann. We discover some of their contributions to mathematics and how they all contributed to this famous concept of Riemann integration. Index Terms— Bernhard Riemann, Henri Lebesgue, Peter Gustav Lejeune-Dirichlet, Riemann integration I. INTRODUCTION Even though the idea of calculus…
them to lower the prices whilst still making high profits. This is good for the consumers as they would be paying lower prices for what could potentially be a higher quality service. Had the merge been vertical intergration rather than horizontal integration, the firm would not have been able to benefit from these extensive economies of scale. British Airways and Iberia Airlines could combine their ideas, leading to an even better service. "European routes could be rationalised" which for…