camera angles and camera movement are all key parts in developing an effective film. To have the capability to represent an atmosphere‚ mood and setting; everything must come together to represent the main purpose of the film. In the film‚ “The Crucible”‚ the scene being analyzed; the main purpose is to represent the hysteria. In this essay‚ things like sound and music‚ camera angles and camera movement can all be used to achieve an overall effectiveness of the film and it’s purpose. Music and sound
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The "Yellow Bird" Spirit One of the most vibrant‚ deep‚ and sagacious screenplays of the 21st century is Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible." Miller brilliantly comments on human morals‚ authority‚ and mass hysteria. He parallels the events of Salem in 1600’s to the blacklisting and the discrimination against those who were labeled as a "communist" in America during the 1950’s. He proficiently shows how mass hysteria could sweep an entire community like a tsunami and erase all logical thought and rationality
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The Crucible- A Drama Worth Watching On September 21‚ 2014 I had the privilege of attending opening night of “The Crucible” performed at the Old Vic Theater in London England‚ and directed by Yael Farber. “The Crucible” is based on the true historical events of the Salem witch trials. The play is set in Salem Massachusetts in the spring of 1692. Salem is filled with mass hysteria when a group of puritan girls including Abigail Williams the niece of the local minister Reverend Parris‚ Betty Parris
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The play‚ The Crucible’‚ illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people‚ as people did during the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s and the Salem witch hunts of 1962. Many Americans were wrongly accused of being Communist sympathizers. The activities of the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to be linked with the witchcraft trials that had taken place in the town of Salem. This provided Miller with the catalyst to write The Crucible’. Without the knowledge
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“THE YELLOW BIRDS‚” BY KEVIN POWERS REVIEWED BY CALEB CAGE November 29th‚ 2012 The innocuous title of Kevin Powers’ debut novel The Yellow Birds is a reference to a military marching cadence. In its lyrics‚ as anyone who served in the military in recent decades might know‚ a peaceful bird is lured into a room and wantonly killed. The cadence is off-putting because of its unusual mixture of poetry‚ vulgarity‚ and violence‚ and because there is no apparent explanation for the acts it describes.
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Untraditional Drama Conventions Does an author always have to stick to conventions in writing? A dramatic convention is an unrealistic element in a literary work that is accepted by readers or viewers because it is traditional. In The Crucible‚ Arthur Miller deviates from traditional drama conventions in his telling of the Salem Witch Trials. He does not use scenes and uses a narrative technique more than stage directions throughout the play. A conventional play typically includes scenes dividing
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this is significantly noticeable through the reoccurring motif of the birds. I purposely used immobile birds‚ which are represented throughout the movie in photographs or as stuffed birds. The reason for this is because ordinarily‚ birds are liberated‚ however‚ though the use of immobile birds it metaphorically symbolises that both of the predominant characters‚ Marion and Norman are constricted‚ just like the birds. The use of birds is also a reflection of characters‚ which conveys to the audience that
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The scene that our group has written about is about everyone finally finding out the truth about Abigail. It first starts out with Parris entering his home to find that Abigail has fled Salem with Mercy Lewis and has taken all of his money. His daughter Betty informed him that Abigail and Mercy have gotten on a boat and are heading to England. The second part of this scene is on the boat with Abby and Mercy. The conversation between Abby and Mercy reveals the truth completely. They discuss what would’ve
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not every soldier wanted to participate‚ or agreed with the cause they were fighting for. If these men were not killed by the war‚ the aftermath of so much trauma likely destroyed their minds‚ as in the case of Kevin Powers‚ the writer of The Yellow Birds. His time in the Iraq War left him with a fragile mental state that made it difficult to have a conversation without trailing off or getting lost in his own thoughts. While Powers felt too much from what he had seen‚ Tim O’Brien’s time in the Vietnam
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Definition of Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] The term comes from a Greek word "dran" meaning "action" which is derived from "to do" or "to act". Drama is an art form that explores human conflict and tension. It generally takes the form of a story presented to an audience through dialogue and action. The story is conveyed using the elements of the theatre: acting‚ costumes‚ props‚ scenery‚ lighting‚ music‚ and sound. Drama has an emotional and intellectual
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