performance again. Three rehearsal techniques that a director should employ in rehearsals are: isolation‚ disassemble/reassemble‚ and disguised practice. Isolation involves isolating a tricky part in music‚ slowing it down‚ gradually speeding up‚ and then playing it back into context gradually. This technique works well for sections or groups who are struggling with a difficult part of the music‚ and need more attention and troubleshooting from the director. I believe this technique should only be used if students
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THE ETERNAL OPTIMIST My name is Sadie and I am an eternal optimist. What is an optimistic person? Well‚ in this essay I will not only explain what an optimistic person may be‚ but also why I consider myself one‚ and examples of me as an optimist. First of all‚ let’s define what an optimist is. A person disposed to take a desirable view of things. The word is originally derived from the Latin prefix optimum meaning “best.” In addition‚ optimists always hope for a favorable‚ positive outcome in
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to make a movie‚ that may be something the audience believes. There’s a science to this‚ camera angles‚ sound‚ and lighting/color that make up a movie. As a film director in Hollywood‚ Tim Burton must pay attention to these simple key factors that create his films. Tim Burton‚ a greatly respected film director‚ creates gothic‚ bittersweet films ranging from friendship to young love. As Burton inspired many‚ he himself was inspired by the author Edgar Allan Poe‚ whose grim side is reflected in his writing
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Montage Editing in Millennium Actress Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress takes the viewer on a visual journey that blends reality‚ fantasy and history as Chiyoko searches for her lost love. Her quest to find this man spans across decades and manifests itself not only in her everyday life but also in the films she has appeared in. Kon uses masterful editing to create both a visually stunning film and a feature that formally reinforces the themes that are presented. Specifically‚ the use of montage
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Mind/Body Connection Technique of Guided Imagery Guided imagery is as old as psychotherapy itself. However‚ as a relatively new approach in the United States‚ guided imagery is experiencing a real wave of respect and is part of the cutting-edge process in the new mind/body medical procedures. There are many names for this process: visualization‚ mental imagery‚ guided affective imagery‚ active imagination‚ and interactive guided imagery. For the first time in history‚ Western-styled allopathic
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Film Techniques Used in the Great Debaters Racism is the belief in the superiority of a particular race (Canadian Oxford High School Dictionary). From hundreds of years ago till present day‚ racism has and always will be an injustice in society. Back in mainly the 1900’s‚ racism was very dominant in communities‚ specifically in the Southern States of the US. For example‚ the film The Great Debaters focusses on a black debate team in Marshall‚ Texas in 1930. The team starts off debating other black
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metaphors‚ rhythm‚ point of view‚ and much more. In general‚ a viewer comes to understand scenes by making detailed models of events. What might be termed the “classical” camera stands in for those procedures that have been successful in the past. When a viewer’s confidence in his or her predictions is high (i.e. the viewer’s constructed‚ mental models are well developed and reasonably supported by evidence)‚ the film achieves a high degree of “reality...” (Branigan‚ 2013) People watch; it’s what they
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The Crying Game The Crying Game brings up many disorienting points. One of the main oppositions is male versus female. Imagine a child opening up his presents on Christmas day. There is a box underneath the tree shaped exactly like the toy he’s been begging for for months now. When he opens the box he is disappointed to learn that it is just a set of pajamas and some tube socks. This situation is a little disorienting for the boy and he learns that he won’t always get what he wants and that
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wrongs in society‚ finally appears possible in a ’tangent universe’ (an imaginative reality)‚ where he is guided by an imaginary friend Frank‚ who appears as a malevolent giant bunny in Donnie’s day-time hallucinations. In the early stages of the film‚ Frank literally lures Donnie from reality and introduces him to a tangent universe where Donnie observes what would’ve been‚ (yet ultimately is) his own death in reality‚ where he is crushed by a plummeting airliner engine that crashes through the
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competition in the industry is oligopolistic competition. It has been identified by the research that instead of the individual companies in most cases. The total volume of purchase of entire industry in 1999 was between $148 to $165 billion and it rose to $ 257 to $ 287 in 2009. The industry is operated by the top 16 GPOs
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