An audience attending a Hitchcock film is required to do much more than eat popcorn and drink soda! A Hitchcock film immerses the audience within the action of the film using stylistic and cinematic elements, such as: camera placement, editing, point of view, subjectivity and objectivity, all working together in ways that help to evoke certain emotions, while also provoking certain questions, making you wonder just what in the world Hitchcock is going to do next? In 39 Steps, one can see the…
In Shakespeare’s day London theatres could hold up to 3,000 people which mean that during a week as many as 10,000 to 20,000 people could see the popular plays of the time. Shakespeare’s audience was very diverse the rich, the upper class and middle class, and the lower middle class. People attending the theatre went for entertainment as today people do by going to the cinema. Royalty even occasionally attended the theatre in private booths. The Globe was a London theatre which costed a…
Choose three businesses that you are familiar with: a restaurant (fast-food or sit-down), a clothing or home accessories store, and a movie theater or other entertainment establishment. The three businesses that I am familiar with are Chuy’s (a Mexican sit-down restaurant), Tommy Hilfiger (a clothing store) and Carmike Cinemas (a movie theater). 1. Chuy’s How long does the first customer contact take in each business? The first customer contact happens as soon as we enter the restaurant. There…
The Harlem Renaissance was a time of empowerment and cultural growth for African Americans and this is reflected in the literature form that era. In the empowering poem, “Hey Black Child” by Useni Perkins the speaker explores the idea of self-empowerment in order to promote the idea of cultural advancement. Perkins uses repetition to convey the message that if young black children remain hopeful and remember that they matter and they can acquire achievement through dedication and education they…
Identify an assessment you used to evaluate your students’ developing knowledge and skills. It should be an assessment to be completed by the entire class. In math every time we use tickets out the door, observations, and the chapter review of that particular section to assess that our students are learning and understanding concepts. The assessment for this particular activity that I choose is the ticket out the door. Use the assessment and results to respond to the following questions…
Going to a theatre production is better than going to the movies because it helps local business in an area, supports rising actors and actress and finally helps brings confidence to young men and women in their daily lives. At the movie’s I might buy some popcorn from a big corporation or maybe some candy owned by Nestle. Then sit down and watch a movie from a big corporate movie industry. Meanwhile I could go to a theatre production, firstly go get dinner, pick up coccestion on your way in…
In 1911, Windsor McCay created his first cartoon, based on his comic strip Little Nemo. The silent animated short film with a running time of 10 minutes is one of the earliest ever made and its expressive character animation distinguished the film from the experiments of earlier animators. Little Nemo, 1911. https://alchetron.com/Little-Nemo-(1911-film)-45390-W The response to the film was enthusiastic. An item in the trade publication Moving Picture World, which praised the film's…
offerings. To guide us in developing a higher level of entertainment and potential blockbuster production we compiled data from the top 50 movies during the years of 1937 - 2012. Box office receipts can give us insight into what is happening in the theater market and how manage our finances in our production. Adjusting for inflation, the box office receipts appear to have a weak or nonlinear relationship with the years studied. This would indicate there is no correlation in box office…
markets, Alpharetta has been recognized as a place that has just about anything your heart could possibly desire. Awesome IMAX Movies One thing that Alpharetta has been recognized for is offering one of the finest IMAX theaters in all of Georgia. The Regal Mall of Georgia IMAX Theater is known for showing movies and educational videos that are marked by cutting-edge cinematography and awesome technology. The dynamic digitally enhanced sound quality and massive movie screens that the Regal IMAX…
Silent movies were a great source of entertainment during the early 1900s, but when sound was added the film industry was revolutionized. It only took two years after The Jazz Singer, the first film with spoken lines, for the silent film era to end. It showed the viewers that there was no reason for silent movies. Big names in silent film making, like Charlie Chaplin, thought “talkies” ruined the film industry. Sound changed the way we watch movies for the better. Sound helps its viewers follow…