Tim Berners-Lee

give their movies a mood or feeling but director Tim Burton does this especially well in his movies Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in his films but the one technique that he does extraordinary in his films are camera angles. In his films, Tim Burton effectively uses the cinematic element of camera angles to create a sense of mood and feeling based on the type of camera he uses. In Tim Burton’s movie Edward Scissorhands, he…

In Peggy McIntosh’s paper “White Privilege and Male Privilege”, Macintosh expresses that white privilege is unearned dominance that whites posses unknowingly, which gives them an advantage in society. She argues that by reviewing the denials surrounding white privilege, acknowledging white privilege’s existence, and the factors that protect these unearned advantages and dominance, we can then use these same unearned privileges to weaken the invisible privilege systems (McIntosh). Whites are…

wrongful actions and expect blessings in the future. The way you treat people and the choices you make will always come full circle. The movie The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, is themed around this. The characters Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Warden Samuel Norton…

In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, Capote follows the stories of both a murdered family, the Clutters, and their murderers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith. Over the course of the novel, Capote reveals that Hickock and Smith met in prison and reconnected once they were both released (161). The pair’s target in invading the Clutter household was money in an alleged safe; murdering the Clutters would just ensure no witnesses could identify them as the killers (Capote 161). Eventually…

A Christmas Carol Have you ever heard of a book called “A Christmas Carol”? Well if you haven’t keep reading and if you have still keep reading you might learn something. A Christmas Carol was originally a book written by Charles Dickens in 1843. In the book he is visited by his former Business partner (after his business partner died) because he is being warned that three ghosts are going to come, one showing the past, one the Present, and one the future. The book has had many Movies,…

Burton’s Technique Tim Burton uses many different types of cinematic elements/techniques to show the mood, tone and style. In the movies I’ve watched, he used various types of cinematic elements/techniques to show the mood, tone, and style of each movie. Some of his cinematic elements/techniques used are music/sound, editing, and lighting. As we go further into the essay I will talk about these three techniques, and you will notice that the tone of the movie is…

Whiteness, the term expressed as acting or behaving as white or pale-skinned people. Well, what do we mean by the term “Whiteness?” When we hear the term whiteness or white we automatically think of white people and their behaviors. We think of educated, powerful, proper, and other terms with positive descriptions. Now a days, the term white is used to accuse someone of behaving like white people. Being accused of acting white is seen as wrong because people of other ethnics take it as trying to…

Shawshank Redemption: Text response Opening scene: - What happens to Andy du Fresne and Red? Andy du Fresne was accused murderer of his much loved wife. He was sent to 2 life sentences in Shawshank prison. Red on the other hand was convicted of murder as well and he was sent to 1 life sentence before Andy. It started out with Andy in the court room with slight glimpses of the night he was accused of murdering his wife. Red was introduced in a parole calling to see if he had changed or had been…

Pans Labyrinth originally called “El laberinto del fauno” was directed Mexican born director Guillermo Del Toro known for his love of producing dark fantasy movies such as Hell boy sequel blade and the devils backbone, all which consist of dark fantasies he. Del Toro didn’t just make Pans labyrinth just because of his creative imagination but also because it represented part of his life growing up as a child. Pans Labyrinth was produced in the year 2006 but the film is set in the 1990s…

scoring makes the diegetic world interactive with our world. Ambient sounds have been used in the films to convey the environment and the location of each scene. Various ambient sounds have been used in The Man from U.N.C.L.E, whereas in About Time chatter has mainly been used as ambience in the majority of the scenes. In The Man from U.N.C.L.E, thunder is heard in the park to reinforce that it’s raining, which conveys the rain’s realism. In the first chasing scene, there is a moment where only…