Filmic Techniques Establishing shot • An establishing shot is usually the first shot of a new scene‚ designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot. • To orientate the viewer to the flow of the narrative by alerting the audience to the beginning of a new sequence‚ but does not itself carry narrative information. Effect: When the director wants the responder (us) to understand the emotion being experienced by the character
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1. Abstract Language: Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things‚ people‚ or places. 2. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds‚ such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." 3. Allusion: A reference contained in a work 4. Ambiguity: an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. 5. Analogy: a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation
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| Atonement: Barricading the Ladder | | Daryl Deebrah ENG 4U1 Ms. C. Kivinen Due: April 27th 2012 Atonement: Daryl Deebrah April 21/2012 Class conflict is not new. Complications between the classes have occurred many times throughout history and the theme has been explored numerous times different pieces of literature by a variety of authors. However‚ in Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel‚ Atonement‚ he provides
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Film Techniques Folio Defining what you need to know about film ______________________________________________________________ What do you know about film? ( How did they do that? ( Why did they put that in? ( What was the point of that? ( Why did that character do that? ( What’s this film really about? These are just some of the questions which might arouse you when you are viewing‚ or studying‚ a film. And‚ clearly‚ your
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Hitler and Stalin. Mobs‚ like an army‚ are more ferocious than people who caused great travesties and genocides; the more‚ the scarier. In the works of Atonement‚ by Ian McEwan‚ and Mountain Standard Time‚ by Paul Horgan‚ show these scenes of violence by a mob -with some graphic ideas- to present their ferocity and menacing power. In Atonement‚ the victim was being accused by fellow soldiers for the letting one die. The scene takes place in the beginning of World War II; the Tommies (land-based
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Article Reaction #6 Using Stories in Elementary School Counseling: Brief‚ Narrative Techniques According to this article‚ narrative counseling is based on the principle that peoples real life problems and experiences can be turned into a short story. The belief that if a student talks about their life events repeatedly in the company of a counselor/social worker creates the opportunity to identify other ways they can show positive behaviors; while keeping them encouraged. I can agree with
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Non-sequential Narrative The God of Small Things is not written in a sequential narrative style in which events unfold chronologically. Instead‚ the novel is a patchwork of flashbacks and lengthy sidetracks that weave together to tell the story of the Ipe family. The main events of the novel are traced back through the complex history of their causes‚ and memories are revealed as they relate to each other thematically and as they might appear in Rahel’s mind. Although the narrative voice is omniscient
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The aim of this short essay is to illustrate Anselm’s doctrine Cur Deus Homo‚ in reference to his interpretation of the atonement and then relate it to the characteristic claims of the Chalcedonian creed regarding Jesus Christ as one person to be recognized in two nature’s’. Anselm’s theory on atonement is that of a philosophical one which he believes should be understood as a necessity. Anselm’s doctrine‚ Cur Deus Homo’ which is translated as why God became a man (human being)’‚ and the motive
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7 ANALYZING THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND TECHNIQUE T he writer’s overall purpose determines the techniques he or she uses. The writer’s reason for writing a particular article or book may be manipulative‚ as in propaganda or advertising‚ or may be more straightforward‚ as in informative writing. In either case‚ understanding the writer’s underlying purpose will help you interpret the context of the writing. It will also help you see why writers make the decisions they do—from the largest
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THINGS FALL APART: AN ATONEMENT OF THE PAST As one of the many Africans who had been Europeanized‚ Chinua Acehebe’s faith had been at crossroads with his knowledge of the Igbos. In his essay‚ Named for Victoria‚ Queen of England‚ he recounted how his family would sing praises to the Lord and read the Bible all day long and how the next day‚ his relatives would come over and offered food to idols. According to Achebe‚ he didn’t feel any undue distress or experience spiritual agonies for such
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