...smarts) allow him to prevail behind bars. He uses his banking skills to win favor with the warden and the guards, doing the books for Norton's illegal business schemes and keeping an eye on the investments of most of the prison staff. In exchange, he is able to improve the prison library and bring some dignity and respect back to many of the inmates, including Red.” After many years and a pick axe Andy manages to escape from prison threw slowly chipping away at the hole in his cell wall where he had a poster hung.” (google.com, 1999). In this paper we will be discussing many key points about the Shawshank Redemption; we will be going over storytelling, acting, editing, and cinematography, editing, sound, the different styles and directing, the impact of society on the film, genre and the overall analysis of the film. Within the storytelling of the Shawshank Redemption we will go...
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...1692, 188,D O I : 10. 1080/ 17439884. 2011. 553623 To lnk to thi arti e: ht p:/ doiorg/ 1080/ i s cl t / dx. . 10. 17439884. 2011. 553623 Publshed onlne:14 Apr 2011. i i Subm i your artcl t t s j t i e o hi ournal Ar i e vi s:1332 tcl ew Vi r at ar i es ew el ed tcl Cii ar i es:6 Vi cii ar i es tng tcl ew tng t cl Ful Ter s & Condii l m tons ofaccess and use can be f ound at ht p: / w w .andf i com / i j t /w t onlne. acton/ournalnf m aton?j nal I or i our Code=cj 20 em D ow nl oad by:[ i esex U ni siy] M ddl ver t D at 02 Febr e: uary 2016,At 11: : 17 Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 36, No. 2, June 2011, 169–188 A learning design for student-generated digital storytelling Matthew Kearney* Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Received 16 December 2010; accepted 7 January 2011) CJEM_A_553623.sgm Taylor and Francis Downloaded by [Middlesex University] at 11:17 02 February 2016 shirleya@uow.edu.au Dr 0 3000002011 36 ShirleyAgostinho Taylor 2011 & (print)/1743-9892 (online) Original Article 1743-9884Media Learning,Francisand Technology 10.1080/17439884.2011.553623 The literature on digital video in education emphasises the use of prefabricated, instructional-style video assets. Learning designs for supporting the use of these expert-generated video products...
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...details), (3) practice the big emotional stretch, by transitioning among the emotional spectrum from happy to sad (becoming more comfortable with big feelings, facial expressions, gestures, and motions), (4) babble to increase nonverbal skills, by delivering the essence speech with nonsense phrases, gestures, and body language to convey meaning (learning to demonstrate charisma and becoming comfortable with our emotional attitudes), (5) put on a persona, by taking the role of another person to allow the speaker to become much more expressive (finding someone who engages you imaginatively and emotionally), and (6) learn from the best, by watching Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream speech” and following his dramatic starts and endings. Once the speaker has practice several of these techniques, it is important to practice the entire speech in his/her personal style while retaining the expressiveness attained through the exercise. Only then can the speaker become much more powerful, charismatic, and most importantly, authentic. It is important to prepare a story. In “Leading Words: How to Use Stories to Change Minds and Ignite Action,” there are...
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...innovation, quality, community, storytelling, optimist, and decency. While very broad subjects, they continue to define them within their website (http://disneycareers.com/en/working-here/culture-diversity/). Innovation to the WDC means a constant desire to change and update new technology to stay ahead of the curve. Quality standards are set to the highest possible bar, ensuring a lasting product, whether it be a movie, theme park, or show. They cultivate an extensive community of employees, executives, and customers through positive ideas and a focus on “entertainment experience for all generations to share” (http://disneycareers.com/en/working-here/culture-diversity/). They are committed to creating stories that are not only timeless, but inspiring as well. They demand an uplifting attitude focused on their trademarked happy endings. Finally, decency is expected not only from how they treat and are treated by their employees, but also in how their products come along. These espoused values are well translated into their enacted values. They have created their own city, Celebration, Florida, based on these principles and created the first privately zoned and maintained city (Stringham, Miller, & Clark 2010). This city follows their values of innovation, quality, community, optimism, and decency without fail. As to how it plays into their storytelling mission, further research would be required. Also, the WDC has begun to innovate their storytelling to include themes from different...
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...Future of Advertising Sales -- It's all About Integration One of the reasons ad dollars are falling for newspapers, as well as traditional media, is that they don't fully understand the new realities of marketing. Two key shifts are taking place that media companies can no longer ignore. First, media and marketing have always been about storytelling. Advertisers have a story to tell, and the media is there to help tell it. Today, however, media and marketing go beyond mere storytelling; now it's about storytelling and dialogue. That's why social media's so popular. It's not about the word "media"; it's about the word "social." Unfortunately, we have community newspapers, television, radio, and news programs that are failing to build community through activity, engagement, and dialogue. Yes, they have a website, but for the most part they are static sites that are not engaging. So in order to move forward, big media needs to focus not just on the story, but also on the dialogue. When you add dialogue, you're moving from the information age (where so many media companies started) to the communication age (where the audience is now). Second, when we look at our traditional media players that are trying to sell advertising, they are still using the old model of media-specific ads: Radio ads just for radio, TV ads just for TV, and print ads just for print. But if you want to serve your customers well these days, you need to think in terms of a media neutral ad. Why? Because it's not...
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...Beatles’ lyrical explorations, but also incorporates the use of filming techniques such as, cinematography, editing and sound techniques. It also gives us a closer look at the Vietnam War, struggling singers, love and life during a revolutionary period in U.S history that would prove to be unforgettable. This review will encompass topics such as “mise en scène,” (Goodykoontz, 2011), storytelling, cinematography techniques and the meanings behind the directors actions in a film. The names of the characters in Across the Universe, with the exception of the character “Max,” played by Joe Anderson, were all derived from original Beatles songs. For example there is a character named “Jude,” from the song, “Hey Jude,” who’s character is played by Jim Sturgess, as well as a character named “Lucie,” played by Evan Rachel Wood, and, “Prudence”, played by T.V Carpio. In any part of the movie you see, you can find a character of a Beatle’s song. Using the Beatles’ music to create a flow to the movie allows for all types of audience members to connect to the film. While some may have grown up listening to the Beatles when the band was still together, others may still connect today as the Beatles still remain popular throughout the ages. This can be referred to as the “Universal truths” technique. Universal truths are “experiences we can all relate to…we should be able to recognize what [the actor/actress] is going through, to feel empathy for his situation,...
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...16 - 20 * All Pages Screenwriting is a skilled trade, and a good screenplay must be molded and managed with craftsman hands. But so does a screenwriting career. It takes dedication, fortitude, and time – ten years to have overnight success - but if you’re willing to do the hard work to turn your ideas into completed screenplays as well as build a screenwriting career, follow this 20 step roadmap to screenwriting success: Click Here to Start 1. Watch Tons of Movies Lots of them. Good, bad, old, new. All genres. Make it your quest to become exposed to all things film. It’s a badge of honor to earn film nerd status, because as we all know, “Nerds Rule the World.” The more movies you see, the easier it’ll be to identify plot points, sequences, and act breaks. You’ll even start watching the clockwhen viewing DVD’s at home, as you’ll be inundated with the desire to analyze, but you’ll know when you experienced something truly great when you stop thinking and just enjoy the ride. 2. Read Tons of Screenplays As many as possible. This helps to understand screenplay form as well as see how the pagetranslates to the screen. You get a sense of different screenwriting styles and voices, and most importantly you will be exposed to the application of clear, concise writing, while using creative brevity to maximize the visual medium. Learning how not to direct on the page and maximize white space is all part of it. Check out some websites that offer free downloadable screenplays, such...
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...of the fact that she is female. One specific example of this is when Joan arrives at Orleans and talks with the military captains at Orleans about how they should try and retake Orleans. One of the captains looks at her and explains to her why the leaders are having a difficult time taking her seriously, "It's not easy for us, for our pride, to suddenly be usurped by... well with all due respect, by a... by a girl." Many of the Englishmen Joan fights during the film throw patronizing and derogatory remarks towards Joan before, during, and after combat. Despite the amount of genuine resistance that Joan faces for being a woman during the Middle Ages, let alone one that claims she can talk to god, she never gives up on her ambitions and never...
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...A former pitcher, now unemployed takes a job as a caretaker for a wealthy couple, but when their teenage daughter goes missing, he’s a suspect. STORY COMMENTS BACKWATER presents as an engaging dramatic, mystery-thriller. The tone is tense and mysterious. Visual storytelling is well crafted. There’s nice subtext in the opening image of Adam and Eve, as well as the serpent. Later the “Eden” sign solidifies the theme. Clearly the family is entering into what looks like paradise, but possible temptations may lead to a serpent emerging. The opening teaser sets the tone and mystery. Just make sure to label the transition in time from the opening to when it flashes back, as not to confuse the audience. The first act does a good job of establishing...
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...African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is more commonly known as ebonics and sometimes referred to as Black English, is a dialect that stems from American English. African American Vernacular English is known in the black community as a language that should be spoken amongst peers and families, as it is often looked down upon to speak AAVE in professional, educational, or even places where it can be assumed that there won't be many likeminded Black Americans around to understand the usage of AAVE. Young black children in school often become socialized to think that a speaking AAVE, a dialect that is commonly used in at home and around familiar faces, is inappropriate and to speak that is to present yourself and your family as uneducated....
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...Abstract Through narrative therapy a counselor can help clients gain access to preferred story lines about their lives and identities taking the place of previous negative and self-defeating narratives that destroy the self. Presented in this paper, is an overview of the Narrative therapy and the Social Construction Model and several facets of this approach including poststrucuralism, deconstructionism, self-narratives, cultural narratives, therapeutic conversations, ceremonies, letters and leagues. A personal integration of faith in this family counseling approach is presented and discussed also in this paper. NARUMI AMADOR’S FAMILY CONSELING APPROACH Introduction Narrative therapy is found under the Social Construction Model. Using the Narrative approach, the therapist will not be the central figure in the therapeutic process, instead he will be influential to the client, helping him/her internalize and create new stories within themselves to draw new and healthier assumptions about who they are. This process enables clients to distract from focusing on the negative narratives which defined their past, redefining their lives into future positive stories. Narrative therapists define the problem as the problem instead of defining the client as the problem. The therapy process begins redefining the problem, externalizing it and getting it out in the open. The narrative therapist uses the questioning technique and creates alternative narratives...
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...fixed, inevitable” (Malouf loc 77). Malouf uses Achilles to introduce to the reader the idea of fate and inevitability. Achilles fate is fixed but there is still choice when Achilles acknowledges alternate scenarios for his own death: "it will end here on the beach . . . or out there on the plain” (Malouf loc 77). The second chapter is focalized through Priam. After Hector's death Priam has a dream vision of the messenger god Iris. Rather than being mocked by the gods, Iris tells Priam about how things are and not the way the gods want them: “but the way they have turned out. In a world that is also subject to chance” (Malouf loc 360). There is a warning of danger and the danger lies in individuals taking responsibility for their own actions, becoming self-conscious. Hecuba warns Priam: “Imagine what it would lead to, what would be...
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...was supposed to show the transition of a girl becoming a woman by falling in love with someone no one saw as her equal, according to society. Although the movie was made 25 years ago, it still brings a good message to the audiences that watch it. It has become a classic movie that no amount of technology could change. It takes so much to make a movie, and no one realizes it, but in this paper, it’s going to analyze what made Dirty Dancing become such a classic movie. Storytelling The narrative structure of the movie is told from Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman’s point of view as it was the summer she fell in love. The storytelling in Dirty Dancing is told in chronological order because she sees the dancers, wants to be one, then the female dancing lead, Penny Johnson, became pregnant. Baby fills in for her and Johnny teaches her dance in her place. The story takes place at Kellerman’s country club where she goes on vacation for the summer with her family. The conflict in the story is that Baby comes from a respectable family and falls in love with Johnny, the dance teacher, and Baby’s father does not like Johnny because he believed that Johnny got Penny pregnant and then moved on to be with his daughter. The conflict is resolved when Robbie, the man that got Penny pregnant, lets it slip in the end that he was the one to do it while thanking Dr. Houseman for helping her out. The symbolism in the moving is dancing. It shows that it doesn't matter where you come from, you can connect and...
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...Analyzing Films Daniel Miller Professor Schmidt ENG 225 March 25, 2010 Analyzing Films Generally, when a person wants to watch a movie, it is solely for the purpose of entertainment. As the audience member, we often do not spend a great deal of time analyzing the plot, dialogue, and setting. But by taking the time to carefully analyze a movie, you can get a better appreciation of the story that the filmmakers are trying to tell. The films themselves often have a number of elements that come together in order to guide the audience through the arc of the story. Film has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels, and plays and it is a storytelling medium that shares various elements with short stories and novels (Boggs and Petrie, 2008). While the actors themselves may be the most visible elements on the screen, a number of other craftsmen had to perform many other functions in order to get that finished film in front of an audience. If you are interested in analyzing why one movie succeeds and another fails, it is necessary to understand how much of a collaborative effort filmmaking truly is. Here are some elements that should be considered when preparing to analyze a film (Pollick, 2007). To Analyze a Film Completely First, consider the effectiveness of the dialogue and storyline. Professional screenwriters are the true architects of a movie, though many of them do not get the same attention as the actors or directors of a film. Screenwriters may...
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...surprised me by its personal storytelling and subjects. I had never read or heard about this book before, but now since I’ve finish reading, I can say that it is a story of a retelling of love, justice, hate, revenge and the power of forgiveness. In the book, the lives of two very different people, Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton are thrown into a confusion, leading to the prosecution of Ronald Cotton for the rape of Jennifer Thompson. The book further explains how the trial changed their lives forever and it also tells the story of both people from their own. In the following paragraphs, I would like to state my own opinions and personal responses about the book. I really enjoyed the story as it is told through a distinct pattern first person narration. I felt that I better connected with them in relating to their emotional dispute. Most readers like me have no experience in this particular type of trauma, so reading tone is crucial in understanding the moment. Without this particular writing style, it would be impossible to feel anything for the Ronald and Jennifer. These obstacles that Jennifer and Ronald...
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