...ENG 225 WEEK 5 DQ 2 FILM ANALYSIS To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/eng-225-week-5-dq-2-film-analysis/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENG 225 WEEK 5 DQ 2 FILM ANALYSIS ENG 225 Week 5 DQ 2 Film Analysis and Its Applications Film Analysis and Its Applications. As you have learned in this class, film is a far- reaching medium with the potential to affect the greater fabric of our culture. Our understanding this potential and our ability to analyze it reach far beyond just this medium and into all areas of our social structures and culture. For example, the practice of closely analyzing particular films, which we’ve honed in this course, is the same practice of analysis which you will find in other courses – or in learning any new skill. Based on the films you have watched and the ways you have learned to interpret meaning in them, discuss your ideas about how films engage social concerns and have lasting effects on society. Pick a film (or films) as evidence of this dynamic and describe the social and cultural resonance you see. ENG 225 WEEK 5 DQ 2 FILM ANALYSIS To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/eng-225-week-5-dq-2-film-analysis/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENG 225 WEEK 5 DQ 2 FILM ANALYSIS ENG 225 Week 5 DQ 2 Film Analysis and Its Applications Film Analysis and Its Applications. As you have learned in this class, film is a far- reaching medium with the potential...
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...Film i Engelsk Bilag 1a FILM ANALYSIS – an introduction (Source: http://www.filmeducation.org) – bearbejdet af Mi og LK, Favrskov Gymnasium Reading a film is just like reading a book, except that instead of looking at a written page we are looking at the cinema screen. Reading a film works in exactly the same way as a written text, or a picture, except that the tools that are used to create meaning are different. We call these tools film language. The opening sequence From the moment we first start watching a film, we begin to get involved. The first few minutes of a film (the opening sequence) are very important to us as they give us lots of clues about the film: 1) what will the film be about (conflicts/themes); 2) who are the most important characters (hero, villain, love interest); 3); what is the setting of the film (time and place); 4) the genre; and finally, 5) what sort of film language characterizes the film? We look at all these elements and begin to put them into context. Based on their environment, how they look, what they say and what we see them do, we make assumptions about the characters, their roles in the film and their relationship to each other. We also recognize so-called genre markers (things we associate with one particular genre) which tell us if we are watching a Western or a Sc-Fi film and, thus, form specific expectations about what is going to happen during the rest of the film. At the same time, we listen to the sounds and the music...
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...the next year. Arundel should make an offer to buy sequel rights as the average NPV (on a per film basis ) is $5.51 mn (this is the value calculated using real options method). Hence, we should pay a price below $5.51mn. As per informal inquiries made by us, the studios would be tempted to accept the price of $2mn or more and would not even consider a price below $1mn. We propose that we should negotiate for the price of $2mn. This would give us a profit of $3.51 mn per film. The movie studio might (or might not) be willing to sell these rights at this price because it helps the studios mitigate the risk associated with producing the sequel. Also, the fact that there is no liquid market for rights to produce sequels will also drive the price lower on account of lack of demand. Average value of Sequel rights per film using DCF Analysis Average value of sequel rights per film across all studios 1. There are 99 films in the portfolio. Arundel Partners will only produce films for which hypothetical NPV is greater than zero. Hence, we calculate NPV of each film at Year 0. Since the exhibits state that the values are already preset values, we have not rediscounted them. NPV (At year 0) = (PV of Net Inflows at Year 4a) – (PV of Negative Cost at Year 3) 2. 28 films have NPV > 0 at t=0. The total NPV of these films at t=0 is 852.3. The average NPV for a film is 852.3/99= $8.61mn. Note: Since the exhibits state that the values are already preset values...
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...tekster fra 1.G 1. Literature/fiction and film analysis * http://so1.cphwest.dk/kulturelle_materialer/Engelsk_kulturelle.pdf * Working with Fiction (dokumenter): Read "The New Girl" * Litterature: 'My Son the Fanatic * Film analysis (oral): 'Crash' * Literary analysis of short stories relating to racial diversity, immigration and general social issues etc. * Texts: Aline's journey, The New Girl; The First Day (US society; Racism; Social class in the US); 'Little Things' by Raymond Carver; 'My Son the Fanatic' by Hanif Kureishi (UK Area Study); First Confession by Frank O'Connor (Ireland: an introduction-Religion). Film analysis. * Subjects related to sporting, social, political and economic themes. Films: Green Street Hooligans (Sport+UK society); Crash (US society); Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass (UK - Nothern Ireland); Bowling for Columbine (Guns in America). 2. UK: Area study * “Two Speed Britain” (s.54-s.63) fra bogen;” What’s up, Britain” * Tekster fra Current magazien "Margaret Thatcher", "The Rise of UKIP", "The Weird Foods Brits Love", "Jack the Ripper Stalks London" og "London's East End" * “My Son the fantastic” * Waterboys sang ”Old England” 3. USA: Political, Society and culture * "Mapping where English is not the language at home" By Dan Keating and Darla Cameron: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/us-language-map/ * Cadillac advert analysis: http://adage.com/article/news/cadillac-clears-misconceptions-poolside-ad/291925/...
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...8/24/09 7:41 AM Page 2 Learning Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be able to ✔ appreciate the difference between passively watching movies and actively looking at movies. ✔ understand the defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art. ✔ understand how and why most of the formal mechanisms of a movie remain invisible to casual viewers. ✔ understand the relationship between viewers’ expectations and filmmakers’ decisions about the form and style of their movies. ✔ explain how shared belief systems contribute to hidden movie meaning. ✔ explain the difference between implicit and explicit meaning, and understand how the different levels of movie meaning contribute to interpretive analysis. medium. With so much experience, no one could blame you for wondering why you need a course or this book to tell you how to look at movies. After all, you might say, “It’s just a movie.” For most of us most of the time, movies are a break from our daily obligations—a form of escape, entertainment, and pleasure. Motion pictures had been popular for fifty years before even most filmmakers, much less scholars, considered movies worthy of serious study. But motion pictures are much more than entertainment. The movies we see shape the way we view the world around us and our place in that world. What’s more, a close analysis of any particular movie can tell us a great deal about the artist, society, or industry that created...
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...FILM REVIEW TITLE: ... and not just the title of the film and ‘a review’ – be imaginative HOOK: * A strong lead sentence which signals your approach to the film. * You can also set up an idea and then undermine it in your second paragraph, i.e. “rave, rave, brilliant, rah, rah. This is not one of those films…” DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: * Description or Synopsis * DO NOT REVEAL PLOT POINTS EVER. * If you want to discuss a plot point, write WARNING: SPOILER ALERT. PLOT * Instead of saying what happens, write about the film’s themes or the characters. * What kind of plot is it? Memento, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Inception… GENRE * What is the director trying to achieve? Skyfall wants us to sit on the edge of our seats, or wants us to be adrenalized, Dodgeball wants us to laugh... * The Dark Knight Rises wants us to run screaming into a hardware store so we can drill a hole in our heads to erase the memory. AUDIENCE * How does the film make the audience feel? This is why it is important that your review be a public screening? Did everyone get the jokes in a comedy (anecdotal examples: Scary Movie, Braveheart). READERSHIP * Where will the review be published? This should affect the way you relate the film’s audience to your audience as a writer. ANALYSIS * Analysis: The film’s style, structure, narrative, genre etc.) * Evaluation: strengths and weaknesses. * What makes this film the kind...
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...for an option to sequels and the sequels’ real value. Therefore, valuing the option correctly takes great importance. The partners want to buy a portfolio of rights in advance rather than negotiating film-by-film to buy them because it is of critical importance to Arundel that a number of films and a price per film are agreed upon before either Arundel or the studio knows which films would generate the option of a sequel. If not, once production starts the studio would inevitably have more information on the likeliness that a sequel would be possible. This would put Arundel at a disadvantage, because they would then have to negotiate the price for sequel rights on each film produced while knowing much less than the production studio about the film. For example, if the studio knew that obtaining the rights for the literary work the first movie is based upon took a lot of haggling and work, and that the script has gone through fifteen revisions with six different writers, then the studio may be keen to get rid of the sequel rights. While a film’s profitability is always a gamble, there are often early signs such as these that a movie is going to be a jumbled mess that cost the studio way too much money to produce in the first place. These films tend to do poorly in the box office and not get sequels. Without a prior agreement, the studio could thus try to sell Arundel options for the less-successful properties and keep the potentially more lucrative ones for...
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...APPENDIX Writing a Film Analysis Films are made to be seen and heard, to appeal to our visual and aural senses. Like any art form, however, films are also meant to be felt and understood, to appeal to our emotions and minds. One of the best ways to determine whether a film has succeeded in any or all of these goals is to analyze the elements that make up the whole work. To write an analysis of a film, you must study the film carefully. Your critical analysis should be derived from your personal encounter with the film, not from published criticism. Access to a videocassette recorder or DVD player is essential if you are going to perform a critical analysis of any depth. It is not enough to like or dislike the movie; you must determine why it succeeds or fails in reaching out and encompassing the viewer. The first step is to view the film in its entirety. From this viewing you can get an initial reaction to the many parts of the film that you will have to explore in more depth. When you first view the film, it is best not to try to take notes or separate the parts of the film; you should be familiar with the textbook in order to know what to look for. After you have formulated a thesis and have begun the process of supporting that thesis, you should view the film at least once more in its entirety and two or three times in segments in order to review scenes of major importance. The thesis statement is the element around which to structure your analysis. Because the theme or...
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...| This report includes the marketing analysis of this project, including the PESTLE and SWOT analysis. It also includes the problems this project faced and solutions to them, with the comparison to some similar movie projects. | | | Submitted to Prof. SHAM SHARMA | | A presentation report for advertisement Submitted by: Name | Roll no. | Section | Ankit Tomar | 10 | FA2 | Deepanshu Tyagi | 13 | FA2 | Neha Srivastava | 19 | FA2 | Ritika Chhabra | 31 | FA2 | Vaishali Dhiman | 47 | FA2 | Acknowledgement Any accomplishment requires the effort of many people and this work is no different. We take this opportunity to thank Prof. Sham Sharma for providing us valuable guidance at various stages of my project. Well! We do not have any long list of names to give them any credit for this project report as the credit mostly goes to us. But as we are being humans by the time of our birth, we are also dependent. We owe our sincere thanks to the college faculties, who always believe that the last bencher is not capable of doing nothing, their criticism challenged us to prove them wrong. We like to thank all our colleges at IIPM, New Delhi who always do their best by helping us to enjoy the life at its peak by bunking the lectures and spending time with PVR cinemas. We like to remember the wisdom provided by GOOGLE and ALTAVIST.com, for their valuable suggestions and auto completion dialogue boxes, without them we would not be able to bring this project...
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...McCarthyism and The Second Red Scares impact on Media in the 1950-60s decades (Research and Analysis Paper) In 1950, fewer than 50,000 Americans out of a total US population of 150 million were members of the Communist Party(Gilder Lehrman). However following WWII the the time period of the 1950-1970 was marked as a period of mass fear of Communism. American fears of internal communist infiltration reached Its highest point since the First Red Scare of the 1920-30s. Government organizations investigated millions of americans, “asking what books and magazines they read, what unions and civic organizations they belonged to, and whether they went to church” (Gilder Lehrman). This time period was also marked by the major shift and blacklisting of celebrities primarily in show business. One of the people who took full advantage of the mass hysteria was Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin. McCarthy began his crusade by giving a speech at the Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, in West Virginia, where he stated that he had a list of over 220 confirmed communists living in the US. The numbers of this statement dropped over the years as people began to watch him more closely. However this didn’t stop him from rising to more power, after the Republicans regained a majority in the senate, McCarthy took control of a subcommittee, and performed investigations on government agencies. Other Cold War “activists” consisted of Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, union leader Walter Reuther...
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...Video Analysis Through out the course we have been wrestling with how the media is made and who influences it. A lot of time there are underlying narratives to stories produced in the media. They use everything from lighting to shot angles to make a certain impression on the viewer. In this essay I will do a video analysis on Adele’s song “Someone like you. My goal is to illustrate my understanding of the many ways media producers make meaning and how we interpret that meaning. I will use narrative and semiotic analysis to see what strategies are being used to make the video. Through a careful analysis of how the video is being made we can see what type of meaning is trying to be expressed. Theoretical Frame To be able to do a video analysis it is important to understand semiotics. Semiotics is the discipline that studies the nature of any type of communication (Grossberg p.143). Its important to understand this does not only involve language but other forms of communicating such as traffic light codes, dress codes, or rolls that men and woman play. In all these things we are communicating with each other by using a system that we all understand and can relate to. Semiotics define that system as codes and those codes are constructed signs. For example the English language is a code that we use to communicate with each other. The code consist of words or signs that arbitrarily symbolize something for us. As mentioned above the traffic light is another code of communicating...
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...Lousie, is to inform us on how the explanation for the movie’s wide appeal among women spectators. “The film's female gazes undercut and appropriate the dominant male gazes typical of mainstream Hollywood cinema by using mockery as a narrative device to illustrate the sexism inherent in the male gaze, and it is precisely this appropriation of patriarchal construction that offers pleasure to women spectators” (Cooper). The movie Thelma & Lousie caused so much controversy that she wanted to inform us on the topic, and explain how, “a conceptual framework for explicating these subversive gazes within film narratives” (Cooper)....
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...Cindy Sheldon ENG225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Sarah Snook September 7, 2013 “P.S. I Love You” Introduction: For this film critique essay I will be writing about the movie P.S. I Love You (2007). This paper will explore the storytelling, the actors as well as how they act in the film. We will explore the cinematography, editing, sound, and the style and directing for this movie. The last few things we will explore are the impact this film had on society (if any), the genre, what is the best way to analyze this film. When all these aspects of the movie are examined we will see how a script comes to life on the big screen. Storytelling: This film is shot in non-linear form, it starts with the present and throughout the movie we are given glimpses into the past. This story takes place in several different places which include Ireland and New York City. The main female character (Holly) experiences an internal conflict when her husband Gerry passes away from an illness at a very young age. Holly is able to resolve her conflict with help from her friends, family, and her deceased husband. The symbolism in this film is that love can overcome anything including death. For us, the viewers, relates to our human nature. If we are lucky we have all been able to experience the type of love that is portrayed in this film. That love that we never see coming, but hits us like a “ton of bricks”. The kind of love most of us only get to experience once in our life...
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...Introduction Our analysis of Hollywood film industry show us the industry as an oligopoly and we decided to analyse its characteristics through the “structure conduct performance of this industry” (SCP) Industrial concentration has been a concern for economics studies, while analysing Hollywood film industry we found a significant amounts of concentration with the largest companies that give them an amount of monopoly power that they use on its benefit preventing new comers, the power is use as a barrier to entry the market is often exercised in ways that harm the all industry. Measures of concentration are important for the analysis of imperfect competition brought by monopolistic markets, and governments use them when are considering antitrust policies and companies merging. These measures provide an indication of the ability of the largest firms to control prices and competition. Monopolies have the advantages of lowering production costs economic of scales and profit maximisations setting mark ups prices that can be one of the reason for unequal market competition and in not much benefit for consumers. Although concentration is problematic in the industry it represent special problem in the movies business because, the big screen operates not only in the market of goods and services but also as ideological diversify market newer and fresher ideas can coming at any time. Brainwashed and manipulation can arise as a consequence of a significant monopoly power diminishing...
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...Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Research Papers Graduate School 8-2014 Nollywood: A Case Study of the Rising Nigerian Film Industry- Content & Production Elizabeth T. Giwa Southern Illinois University Carbondale, toyin.e.giwa@gmail.com Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp Recommended Citation Giwa, Elizabeth T., "Nollywood: A Case Study of the Rising Nigerian Film Industry- Content & Production" (2014). Research Papers. Paper 518. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp/518 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Papers by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact opensiuc@lib.siu.edu. NOLLYWOOD: A CASE STUDY OF THE RISING NIGERIAN FILM INDUSTRYCONTENT & PRODUCTION by Toyin Elizabeth Giwa B.S., Southern Illinois University, 2010 A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Department of Mass Communication and Media Arts in the Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale August 2014 Copyright by ELIZABETH TOYIN GIWA, 2014 All Rights Reserved REASEARCH PAPER APPROVAL NOLLYWOOD: A CASE STUDY OF THE RISING NIGERIAN FILM INDUSTRY CONTENT & PRODUCTION By Elizabeth Toyin Giwa A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the field of Professional Media and Media Management...
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