Film

watching or making films can tell you that films have changed alot, since they were first introduced. There are changes from all categories of making a film. For example, color and sound, computers, cost, etc. Although some may not be very fond of they way movies have evolved, one cannot ignore it. Despite the evolution of filmmaking, they will always be a fantastic form of information. One of the most noticeable differences is the color and sound of films. If one were to watch a film from the…

persisted to advance as well. With the arrival of each new decade comes the influx of “new challenges for women to find their places again, as the changing nature of the business makes new rules, and, hopefully, breaks the old ones,” (Rose 1). Women in the film industry during the nineteen forties and fifties served as prominent icons that have immeasurably influenced women in their time period. As the nineteen forties began during World War II, motion pictures encouraged actresses to express…

intention is to portray... to represent something for a viewer to decode, to connect a signifier to a signified. For this subject’s major project, I chose to pursue the visual medium of film posters. Inspired by my font, Curved’s design — which has a certain space-age, 1960s feel to it — I looked at creating film posters for, initially a 1969 “Doctor Who” story The Seeds of Death then, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The latter, being a seminal piece of cinematic history, comes…

Prom Night in Mississippi Reflection Prom Night in Mississippi is a documentary film about Academy Award-winning actor, Morgan Freeman who offers to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under the condition that, prom had to be racially integrated. In this film, we view the struggles that are faced and overcome to have a successful integrated prom in 2008. My personal views, emotional connection, previous thoughts, reaction, and what I learned from watching this…

Titanic, is really a touching love story. The Director of the film is James Cameron. The main actor is Leonardo DiCaprio. Both the rich and the poor are on board. The ship clashes against an iceberg. The passengers give priority to female gender and children. This calamity strikes at the middle of the film. The ship is thought to be unsinkable. However when it hits an ice burg, it tragically sinks. Hearing people cry like folks while floating on water is so emotional. The tide draws breath and…

ways. From a teleological approach the argument would be that the development of synchronised sound seemed inevitable, arguably a logical improvement on Hollywood films. A teleological viewpoint would see the development of sound as inevitable because this makes the films more realistic. Steve Neale argues that the use of sound-in-film “reflects more of the world as experienced through our two basis senses” (Neale, 1985, p. 96). The teleological approach looks at sound as a process to get to…

overcome anything” is a pattern that happens throughout all the films that I have studied. This happens in the films: The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman and is a Drama film/Film adaptation, Remember the Titans directed by Boaz Yankin and is a Sport/Drama film, and Tomorrow When the War Began directed by Stuart Beattie is a Drama film/Action film and Stand by me by Rob Reiner is a comedy/action/adventure. In the film The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas by Mark Herman, A young…

these films. Certainly, this business has been booming for the past one-hundred years, and we keep on fueling the fire. Movies aren’t just about entertainment only. Many films have become part of the American culture, and many films from the US show how Americans think and feel about certain trends or ideas. American films are accurate representations of what America is to outsiders, and we do take pride in our work. American film is very popular among people worldwide. Many big film…

_________, which looks at all of the outcomes of specific behavior, could be used to analyze certain aspects of the film. 27. Even though are countless moral theories that could be used to analyze Zero Dark Thirty, it is important to remember that, meaning has to come __________ truth. 28. A proposition is an important phrase in philosophy that could be applied to scenarios in the film. A proposition is a language construction with logic that demonstrates a _______________. 29. While Dan…

In the 1992 movie The Player (Robert Altman), the main character Griffin Mills, a wealthy movie executive, murders a writer, David Kahane, whom he believes to be terrorizing him after not producing Kahane’s movie. Griffin represents the kind of entitlement seen in Hollywood, he makes demands he has no right to be making, he cheats on his girlfriend, and the worst offense : he walks into Bicycle Thieves only to catch the last 5 minutes, and then has the audacity to suggest a remake where the…