Voice actors

An actor’s career is a repeating process beginning with creating a character to portray. This character needs to have their own voice and motivation. Although actors often build these characters off of their own feelings and experiences, the character will most likely have their unique way of communicating with people. Like how every person, living or otherwise, does or did not have the same situations…

Mise-en-scène Mise-en-scène is all the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed such as settings and props, lighting, costumes, make-up and actors and their behavior. In a clip from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, mise-en-scene is used heavily to convey the major elements of the two sequences without the use of dialogue. The first sequence is of a space ship moving through outer space, heading towards Jupiter. It is immediately easy to notice how…

A Doll’s House became a voice for women’s rights issues, illustrating the challenges that women faced in a male dominated culture. Ibsen’s vision of humanity in an ideal community, was the motivation behind his social…

technical cinematic elements that may not have been widely used in classic Hollywood cinema. The narrative style of Citizen Kane challenged the traditional Hollywood narrative by developing the story through the use of flashbacks and first person voice over narration from different characters throughout the movie. Each character, from Jed Leland, Kane’s “friend”, to Susan Kane, Kane’s second wife, to Jerry Thompson, the reporter looking for the meaning behind Kane’s last words, all contribute…

When I hear this I immediately thought of the poem IF and I was confused to how this related to drama. But actually when they say the magic ‘if’ it is a way of actors to getting into believing that they are this character in real life, the actors need to get comfortable in just being their character rather than acting it. This is where ‘if’ comes in, it is to make you think of what your character will do if they were in this scenario on stage right…

Academy is dumb. Bogart's Sam Spade is one of the meanest, ruthless heroes that you will see. I heard that the original Sam Spade in the novel was a 6 feet heavy built figure. Bogart is not a big person physically but he more than makes it up with his voice & mannerisms. See that scene where he mocks his partner's widow by saying "You killed my husband Sam. Be kind to me". His clap, his smile & his subtle expressions in that scene were as mean as you could see anywhere. Or that scene where he…

There is something truly rewarding as a movie fan, when a talented actor, good and entertaining in a number of roles, finally breaks out and taps into greatness. In Matt Spicer's feature film debut, Ingrid Goes West, Aubrey Plaza gives her finest performance yet as a woman caught up in the instant gratification world of social media. In a role that could be full of formulaic meltdowns and tired cinematic tropes, she creates a character who is selfish and dangerous, yet generates empathy and…

As previously mentioned, in addition to the structural priming paradigm, the proposed study will make use of the measurement of event-related potentials via EEG. In order to measure the potentials accurately, there needs to be a starting point for which to begin the EEG measurements. Peter Hagoort (2008) suggests that the EEG measurement for an experiment measuring the P600, such as the proposed study, should begin at the final word of the sentence. However, I disagree with this idea, and side…

factor in the film business, being that’s it such a complicated collaborative art form, is working with people that you’ve had good working relationships with on past projects. This is a norm in so many projects. We find directors working with the same actors, cinematographers, editors, produces, and composers, over and over again. A good example of directors and composers: Spielberg/Williams, Fellini/Rota, and Eisenstein/Prokofief. Sergei Prokofiev never composed a score for an American film…

The messenger is completed as the foremost leader by these elements. In taking on each charge, no matter what be at stake, the messenger exemplifies honor by undertaking the responsibility of carrying the voice of mind of the people. He displays the quality of integrity, each time he carries out a mission, he holds his message only to his chief. He does not double cross, nor does he dismiss information unto anyone but his superior. With honor, he puts…