Screenplay

The screenplay differs from the movie in that it does not follow the transitions and path of the original script. Rather, it cuts between different scenes and connects the viewer with ideas of the past and present. For example, the movie begins with Solomon Northup seen cutting sugar cane stalks on a plantation somewhere. It then transitions to him playing the violin. This slight variation from how the screenplay was written, allows for the movie to open with a much more powerful and provocative…

Maya Angelou was born in Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri in April 4th 1928 and died in May 28th 2014. She grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. She grew up during the time of racial discrimination. She was an American poet, a civil rights activist, memoirist, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, and singer. She published autobiographies, essays, and several poems. Maya Angelou earned tons of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. The first of her…

entirely acquired in context. As I’ve known how to read since my early developmental years, it wasn’t that I was able to read something into much later on. Reading a novel is different from reading an article on a newspaper or online as reading a screenplay is different from reading a poem. When I first started college two years ago, I acquired an entirely new literacy of a digital artifact in a digital media class. In the class, a core project was the development of a professional personal…

The Renaissance period was from the 14th to the 17th century starting in Italy then spreading into the rest of Europe. During that time there were many influential people such as Leonardo Da Vinci, and Galileo, who are now considered to be famous Renaissance men because of their achievements. For example Leonardo Da Vinci was a he was a painter, a mathematician, and an engineer and because of this his work is world known and his name will never be forgotten. This type of person did not just…

With each movie genre comes growth and evolution. When a genre first starts out in the industry, it usually will not look exactly the same as it would if it was made today. Specifically, when it comes to mafia movies, the core values each film shares still stays true. The consistent rush of criminal activity and bad guys looking like good guys are all the same qualities that keep the content of the films strong. But, the genre itself has continued to grow, both through techniques as well as the…

She is the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her 2002 play Topdog/Underdog which was a Broadway success. In the following years, she has met much more praise from audiences with not only plays, but also musicals, screenplays, a novel and a television program. Parks is a fascinating artist because of her colorful upbringing, her accomplishments and her origins as a writer. To begin with, Parks was born on May 10, 1963 in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Her father was an…

The cinematography used by Giles Nuttgens symbolizes the heat of the desert. The musical score created by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is full of older and upbeat music to maintain the tone throughout the movie. The screenplay by Taylor Sheridan who also wrote the gripping film ‘sicario,’ gives the viewer the feel that the script is easy to follow, and sounds very realistic. It does not give a feel that it is written by a screenwriter, but an actual person which allows…

some reason to me it just threw the entire movie off but other than that the film was excellent. film was directed by Darrell Roodt. “The screenplay, co-written by Roodt and Andre Pieterse, is based on the book Winnie Mandela: A Life, by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob, a former journalist.” According to Producer Andre Pieterse “The film was made based on a screenplay that was well researched without any interference, without any influence from any of the main…

As a part of my engagement assignment I decided to build a connection with a faculty mentor. After reading through the staff listing on the Arizona State website I decided that I wanted to sit down and talk with Professor Gregory Bernstein. I chose Professor Bernstein, because I read in his bio that he had written and sold several scripts. Becoming a writer for television and film is my goal, and the reason I chose to attend ASU, so I was interested to see what advice he could give me about the…

Casablanca is one of the most recognised films of all time. The film was released during the time of the WWII, so the audience highly related to it. The production of the film was extremely rushed in order for it to be released at the certain time. Its original release date was expected to be spring time 1943 but was then released in November 1942. This was to correspond with the Allied invasion of North America and the capture of Casablanca. Instead of only showing the political themes of the…