The Director

have witnessed in Nortel’s case, when the management pursues their own economic self-interest ahead of shareowners interests, problems are bound to arise. Nortel’s top management received various incentives and motivations; in particular, board of director compensation, executive compensation, ownership structure, and earnings management which ultimately led to Nortel’s collapse (Fogarty et al., 2009). In order to better align managers interests with that of its shareholders, organizations…

The YWCA of Westmoreland County is known as one of the best places to work in Westmoreland. Your company does so much for the community and it would be an honor to be a part of your team. I would like to express my interested in the Executive Director position. I am apply for this position because I hope to make a difference in empowering women and stop acts of racism in the community. I am currently enrolled in the PhD program for Administration and Leadership at Indiana University of…

showing. That is all. I have never thought that there are a lot of frames per second shown in front of my eyes when watching any movies. Furthermore, in the basic background about making film, I only think there are the producer (film businessman), the director, actors/ actress, the writer, the camera operator and some assistants. I do not know that there are a lot person, charging in each part of film process, such as the script supervisor, the…

Tim Burton: The Wickedly Innocent Director of his Time Society can often view others as “strange” or “unusual” from their own standards. Tim Burton, however, breaks those usual standards to represent the abnormal life of others. Instead, Burton would see and use those extraordinary people to incorporate them into his own films. Burton combines outcast protagonists and fantastical settings to convey the idea that society wrongly teaches people to fear the unknown. One way that Burton shows this…

When watching a film, you may not realize all the literary or cinematic elements that filmmakers make to have an effect on the audience. Every choice made is for a specific reason, so that the elements have an effect on the audience’s meaning of the movie and their understanding. The article “7 Things Critics Look For When Reviewing a Film” and the article “Literary Elements” both deal with the choices that filmmakers make to have a specific effect on the audience’s meaning or understanding.…

remake of the book were bought before the official release of the book. Mr. Spielberg discovered the book while working on his TV series, ‘ER’, and was more than pleased with the idea of a movie remake. Jurassic Park had a cast that even the casting director of the Expendables series would be envious of. The cast featured William Hurt, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and Samuel L. Jackson to name a few. Nobody expected the shooting of the movie to be a walk in the park, but I doubt that anybody was…

The film I have been assigned is called “Days of heaven” and it was directed by Terrence Malick. Days of heaven was released September 13th, 1978. I wasn’t very fond of Days of heaven, because although the art and scenery of the movie are well crafted that is not all it takes for a movie to be perceived as good. Unfortunately, due to the lack of dullness of the story itself I cannot acclaim Days of heaven a good movie. The film in my personal opinion is very bland and boring, despite the…

Books are made into movies for many reasons. It can be to help a reader understand the book better, or simply for entertainment. A movie producer cannot fit every single thing from a book into a movie, so often, viewers who have read the novel notice many differences between the two. The Lord of the Flies is not exempt from this, so there are many things that were changed between the book and movie, even though they are the same. Even, though, the characters, beast, mood, and many other…

underworld after his friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. At the Gish Screening before the film Daniel Fawcett spoke. Before the film started he asked the audience to consider how the director wanted us to view each individual psychopath in the film and how they worked together to…

Dawn of the Dead: Even though “Dawn of the Dead“ was remade in 2004; in this paper, the version that will be discussed is the 1978 version. It was both written and directed by the legendary director, George A. Romero. This film was starred by “smaller” names like, David Emge(Stephen), Ken Foree(Peter), Scott Reiniger(Roger), Gaylen Ross(Francine), and David Crawford(Dr. Foster). The film was also the second part of the “Dead” trilogy, which started by the Night of the Living Dead (1968) of…