Film and TV Essay (U31‚ U33) Unit 31 “Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it‚ but to take it to a higher level require teh dedication and persistence that any art form does.” Walter Murch[1] The History Of Editing (L.O.1.1.‚ L.O.1.2.) Editing in early cinema was very basic and linear yet despite this it must have been one of the most exciting times in the film industry. Filmmakers had all the creative freedom at their finger tips as no one had
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2014 To Keep or Not to Keep The short story‚ “ Hills Like White Elephants ” by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a man who is unnamed and a women whose nickname is Jig‚ as the reader we understand them to be boyfriend and girlfriend. They are both sitting at a train station waiting on the train. After some time (and a few beers)‚ the women brings up that the hills in front of them look like white elephants. The man does not think the hills look like white elephants and this statement brings them both into
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Daniel Pareja Mary Samuelson Critical Film Studies 3 March 2015 Weekly Film Essay: Breathless Breathless (À bout de souffle) is a 1960 French New Wave film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The script was written by Godard as he went along but it is a development of a treatment of a newspaper story (that Truffaut read) which was worked on by François Truffaut and Claude Chabro. Michel Poiccard is based on Michel Portail (who had an American and Journalist girlfriend) who stole a car in 1952
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The poem I selected was “What it’s like to be a Black Girl (For those who don’t know)”. This is a poem written by Patricia Smith. The three elements of the poem that I found to be engaging were the tone‚ the content‚ and the language that the author uses. This poem struck some feelings in me. Therefore I am taking a descriptive approach to my response. As a black woman I felt somewhat belittled by the tone that this author uses in this poem. She speaks about the idea of being a black girl as
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The 1999 film‚ “Croupier‚” tells the tale of an experienced gambler who becomes a croupier to gain inspiration for his novel. Actor‚ Clive Owen‚ portrays an aspiring writer‚ Jack Manfred‚ who gambles in decisions within his life based on statistics to perfect the outcome. The film is set in late 1990’s London shortly following the establishment of the National Lottery in the UK in 1994 (Grun‚ L.‚ & McKeigue‚ P. (2000))‚ which also corresponds to McGowan’s fourth wave of gambling‚ the rise of casinos
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With reference to at least TWO films from the film list‚ discuss the way that new digital technology has had an effect on film form and/or exhibition Digital technology has transformed the way we have our cinematic experiences has evolved (DreamWorks).With evolving technology the cinema has taken leaps and bounds in expanding the vision of a director to showcase his talent .Keeping the perspective of technology in our view ‚we move on to explain its impact on two very popular blockbuster movies
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The film entitled In Time was published in 2011 in the United States. It was written‚ directed and produced by Andrew Niccol. The film was categorized as a dystopian‚ science-fiction‚ action and thriller film. The director shows the audience about the future life of human that has never been imagined before. In other words‚ the director wants to emphasize and change the connotative into denotative meaning about time in life. Also‚ this film includes the social issues that can be related to the present
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The film‚ Freedom Writers‚ directed by Richard LaGravenese captured the lives of underrepresented and at risk students whom lived in Long Beach‚ California‚ that were born into gang life and didn’t see their lives past than age eighteen. Erin Gruwell was a passionate young teacher keen on social change. Wanting to make a difference‚ she decided to teach at the newly voluntarily integrated Woodrow Wilson High School. The movie’s portrayal of stereotypes was emphasized through its technical aspects
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In October 1927‚ the first feature film was presented as a silent film‚ The Jazz Singer. Made with a Vitaphone‚ “an instrument that synchronizes motion pictures and sound perfectly‚” it was a major hit to the general public (Eyman). After years of silence‚ someone finally decided to change the disc on the Vitaphone to film‚ introducing audible movies. Since then the introduction of Technicolor‚ Cinemascope‚ and Aromascope used first by the 1960 film‚ Scent of Mystery. All of these new cinematic
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(Jean de Coras) is a well-made film that stays loyal to history while entertaining the audience by portraying the social and cultural atmosphere surrounding the story. The Return of Martin Guerre is set in a small French village in the 1560‚ twelve years before the St. Bartholomew Massacre in 1572. Considering the timeframe‚ it takes place during the peak of the French Renaissance‚ past the Italian War of 1551 and after Renaissance humanism spread to France. The film highlights these historical events
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