Short films

Sound and image work coincidently to create a powerful experience for the audience. In film, everything relates back to the diegesis, particularly what filmmakers want to be recounted, and how it appears to viewers (Chion, 1994). After all, it is the narrative that catches any one person’s attention and pulls them into a world of their own interpretation. When looking at the relationship between sound and image, the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds are responsible for creating realistic…

Blaxploitation films like Shaft, Mandingo, and his personal favorite Foxy Brown; he also enjoyed Soul Train and the 70s music African-Americans were playing at that time. Growing up in a dominant African American culture has helped sculpture Tarantino taste in music, characters, and stories he installs in his movies. One would expect that his depiction of African-Americans in his movies would be based of his personal experiences and his studies of the Blaxploitation films. In his Blaxploitation…

Whether or not you go to the movies every weekend, films are an important part of our lives in the modern world. No matter where you go you will inevitably see advertising for one movie or another, and if you do not then you will see one for a television show. In the age of the internet and social media it is truly impossible to escape movies even if you could not care less about them. I know people who have not been to a theatre in years and others, like myself, who go practically every week to…

Miss Representation is a documentary film full of stories told by teenagers, entertainers, politicians, activists and journalists. This film is full of startling facts, and statistics that made my own jaw drop. From problems we have in our own society today including body image and eating disorders to ways we can all make a difference, Miss Representation is a film everyone would benefit from. This film covered both body image and eating disorders in our generation today. Today’s media…

When it comes to the topic of Disney and how it represents history and culture in its films, most will agree that Disney’s portrayals are highly inaccurate. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is that Disney is working to better portray non-American cultures and history in their films. Whereas some are convinced that Disney has and still is inaccurately representing the history and culture of many other people such as the Chinese and Native Americans, others believe that Disney is now…

that horror movies have on kids? Scary movies seem to have an immediate affects on young children. There’s nightmares, sleep deprivation, and they even have trouble eating. These are the short term effects, but what about the long-term affects? The Association for Youth Children and Natural Psychology says that films “can improve the language and social skills of children, but it also increases violent and aggressive behavior.” What type of “mentor” are horror movies to kids? Children under the…

perceived as competition, different points of view evolve into support for one another. The controversial short film “Identity” by Kahlil Adames inspires individuals to illustrate confidence and perspective, in which identity can be revealed. Once identity exposed, true recognition is discovered. Although perspective, influenced by societal dynamics, insinuates individualism, the short film “Identity” by Kahlil Adames translates perspective as an interpretative point of view, developing a…

It explains the tribulations of African Americans and their roles in the film industry. How society labels a black person (taking a quote from Charles Burnett Page[51]) “Making an ass of himself” and thus will be depicted films which in turn puts gives society a stamp to continue the labeling, which is young generation will see this depiction and might believe its reality, a concern expressed by Bobby grandmother in the film “Hollywood Shuffle” [Page 58]. When I wonder why this happens a lot, a…

emotional responses. So, it’s not surprising they are able to do this effectively with a movie about emotions. Inside Out is an excellent example of a universal film, because it has a wealth of information to share with any field, especially marketing and consumer behaviors. These are some of the observations I blogged in class while watching the film: • Once the perception of the broccoli is changed from gross to enticing (via the classic parent "airplane" trick) Riley's emotions are more…

2010 and the trend of national box office is still upward as shown in Fig.1.1.below. Figure.1.1 Total box office revenue of Chinese films from 2010 to 2015 Data source:Entgroup Box office track(EBTO) The success of the box office revenue over the last past years can be attributed to both macroscopic factors such as government…