...How Films Communicate Kate Kondas HUM/150 June 25, 2013 Eric Carlson University of Phoenix Material How Films Communicate Complete Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two, complete Parts II and III after viewing a film of your own selection from the How Films Communicate Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit Parts I, II, and III in Week Two. Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the How Films Communicate Film List ). In the following table, enter the title of your movie and complete the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For the final entry describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film: An Introduction and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I, along with Parts II and III in Week 2. Movie |Time and Place |Costume |Set Design |Describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. | |Example Movie Alien, 1979 |Example Entry The movie is set in the far-off future. The movie takes place in space on board a spaceship and some action occurs on the surface of a planet. |Example Entry The characters often appear in grubby, casual clothing and what appear to be worn-out uniforms. Also, they appear in space suits when they...
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...University of Phoenix Material How Films Communicate Instructions Complete and submit Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two, complete Parts II & III after viewing a film of your choice from the University of Phoenix Material: How Films Communicate Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit your completed worksheet in Week Two. Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the University of Phoenix: How Films Communicate Film List ). Review the following example in the table and then complete your information by inserting the title of your movie and completing the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For your final entry, describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I in Week One. Movie Time and Place Costume Set Design Describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Example Movie Alien, 1979 Example Entry The movie is set in the far-off future. The movie takes place in space on board a spaceship and some action occurs on the surface of a planet. Example Entry The characters often appear in grubby, casual clothing and what appear to be worn-out uniforms. Also, they appear in...
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...University of Phoenix Material How Films Communicate Instructions Complete and submit Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two, complete Parts II & III after viewing a film of your choice from the University of Phoenix Material: How Films Communicate Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit your completed worksheet in Week Two. Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the University of Phoenix: How Films Communicate Film List ). Review the following example in the table and then complete your information by inserting the title of your movie and completing the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For your final entry, describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I in Week One. |Movie |Time and Place | |Identify aspects of | | |cinematography in your | ...
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...conventions, terminology, and strategies of literary texts | is unclear or seriously limited in presenting or developing a position on the issue | presents a clear position on the issue | presents a well-considered position on the issue | presents an insightful position on the issue | Critical and creative thinking skills | provides few, if any, relevant reasons or examples | develops the position on the issue with relevant reasons and/or examples | develops the position with logically sound reasons and/or well-chosen examples | develops the position with compelling reasons and/or persuasive examples s | Communication of information and ideas | Communicates information and ideas with limited clarity | Communicates information and ideas with some clarity | Communicates information and ideas with considerable clarity | Communicates information and ideas with a high degree of clarity and with confidence | Spelling and grammar | Several errors | A few errors | Some errors | No errors | Content: Criteria | 0 - 15% | 16 - 30% | 31 - 45% | 46 - 60% | Knowledge of forms,...
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...of Phoenix Material How Films Communicate Complete Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two, complete Parts II and III after viewing a film of your own selection from the How Films Communicate Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit Parts I, II, and III in Week Two. Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the How Films Communicate Film List ). In the following table, enter the title of your movie and complete the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For the final entry describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film: An Introduction and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I, along with Parts II and III in Week 2. |Movie | |Identify aspects of |There is one scene that really comes to mind, during one of the interviews between Hannibal and Clarice, Hannibal refuses to help in the investigation until| |cinematography in your |Clarice shares information about herself. As she begins, we see Hannibal, coaxing her, it is a medium close –up at a slight low angle, then we see Clarice,| |selected film. Discuss them in|it starts...
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...ExternalInternalInternalInternal | 46 (part of portfolio)3 4 (part of portfolio) | Key Content Areas | Learning intentions and outcomes | In studying visual texts, students will cover: * Director’s intentions and purposes * Stylistic conventions and their impact on meaning * Contextualization of literature * Key literary aspects such as characterization, setting, structure, film techniques and cinematography * Analytical and creative writing | By the end of this unit, students will be able to: * Develop ideas in a coherent and sophisticated manner * Critically analyse a visual text * Appreciate the different understandings that viewers can bring to a text * Understand and appreciate the director’s craft and its impact upon readers. * Collect and use evidence to support ideas * Write creatively in response to a text * Write log entries about a text with regard to an overarching theme | Key Competencies | Thinking | * Think deeply about concepts such as morality, ethics, societal expectations, social hierarchy, human behaviour and the human condition in relation to texts studied. * Think how the viewer is positioned and manipulated to consider...
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...Running head: Final Film Critique Draft ENG225: Introduction to film Instructor: Deborah Cunningham Linda Schave June 23, 2013 I choose the film “Star-Trek the voyage home” Storytelling- The Star-Trek movie “The Voyage Home” is a movie about an Alien spaceship that comes to Earth. The Aliens have been trying to communicate with Humpback Whales on Earth, they want to find out why they haven’t been communicating with them. The Enterprise crew that rescued Spock starts heading back to Earth in a stolen Klingon Spaceship. On the way home they discovered that the Aliens were trying to communicate with Humpback Whales and in this period of time the Humpback Whale species were extinct. The crew decides to go back in time to get two Humpback Whales and bring them back to the future to communicate with the Aliens to save Earth. When they travel back in time they ended up using all of their fuel up, and had to find a replacement in Earth’s Past. The only thing that had worked to fix their ship was nuclear radiation, in which they found on an aircraft carrier known as the U.S.S Enterprise. Acting- William T. Shatner is the leading star bringing the movie to life and the emotion of the stress, he is under, in this movie, his character’s name is Captain Kirk. Kirk is trying to explain to Spock how he feels and the importance of the mission. Spock is played by Leonard Nemoy, in this movie, Leonard Nemoy is trying to regain his memory, but is having a hard time with understanding...
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...2000). From the viewpoint of communication studies, food has been, and remains to be, a significant representation in our foundation of meaning. Food, as an everyday necessity of social life, is an important aspect to study as it expresses current social studies through distinct relationships of class, education, gender, and sexuality. In addition, the customs of sharing foods and meals have been key in communicative practices in cultures all over the world. In the following paragraphs, the Taiwanese feature film Eat Drink Man Woman, managed and written by well-known director Ang Lee, who also successfully directed movies such as Brokeback Mountain and Hulk, will be analyzed to see how food is constructed and represented in the movie. In the film it is stated by character Jia-Chien that they “communicate by eating” (Lee, A, 1994). This is important because it displays that food is a form of expression and communication, a form that is commonly misunderstood or avoided. The film Eat Drink Man Woman, articulates communication family and loved ones by representing food as a symbol of the presented themes of relationships, displayed through illustrations of love and admiration. According to PBS, “There is no closer relationship than kin, and food plays a large part in defining family roles, rules, and traditions” (PBS, 2005). The text Eat Drink Man Woman...
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...good English — organise information clearly — use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Production Brief MEST2 Read the scenarios. Choose one brief and complete two tasks on that brief. You should attempt to integrate the productions across the two chosen platforms where possible. Brief One You have decided to enter a competition being run by your local arts cinema, The Little Picturehouse. This cinema, which is part of a small chain of 12 independent arts cinemas across the country, shows a mixture of independent, foreign language and documentary films. The company prides itself on providing access to non-mainstream cinema and seeks to make independent cinema accessible to ever wider audience groups. The chain is running a national film-making competition and your local cinema will be hosting the regional finals. Entrants to the competition are required to make a short extract from a film they would like to make as well as materials for a promotional booklet....
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...The film that I watched and chose to write about is Xapiri. This film was made by Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima in 2012. The documentary takes place in Brazil and it consists of many different digital images, art, emotive photography, and much more to make this piece so fantastic. The movie was made to try and explain the Yanomami ideas and their connection to Shamans and the idea of Xapiri. The indigenous Yanomami people settled in the Amazonian rainforest mainly in Brazil and Argentina. Their culture has been known to believe in Shamanism which is the idea that a practitioner will be capable of going into other states of mind and perceive the world with indescribable transcendental energy found everywhere and in everything. The Yanomami people believed there was a Shaman that would enter into a trance state during a ceremony, which gave them the ability to feel the energy and spirits that are...
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...The role visual style plays in communicating the ideas, themes and issues raised by the film Before to the introduction of ‘auteur theory’ Douglas Sirk directed films that were illustrious for classical Hollywood narrative. However, he used his power as director to step outside of the Mainstream Hollywood narrative and stylistic conventions (Core 1994), using techniques such as mise-en-scene to communicate the ideas, themes and issues raised in his films. All That Heaven Allows directed by Sirk is a perfect example of his clever use of visual style to communicate themes of social status, repression and nature. The film was popular at its release as ‘critics were well aware that Sirk's films attracted a humorous popular reception’ (Philip Core p132) but was critically dismissed as a women’s weeping movie (Nick James, 1994). Told from a women's point of view and post WWII exposure gives a sense of context and what life was like for women of the time. As Carrie quotes from ‘walden’s book’ it becomes evident that mise-en-scene enriches the film and gets an insight into post WW2 life. Carrie is trapped, however it is not just the dialogue of the film that is used to expose her entrapment. Carrie is represented as a prisoner in her own home. The use of the TV double comments on what Carrie is going through. Sirk presents the television as a symbol of repression and defeat, a tiresome life. Sirk uses the television set to explore the theme of Carrie as an onlooker on life and...
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... Ron Bell December 19, 2011 Introduction In the film “In the Heat of the Night,” the film depicted a black and white culture where the dominant group in the town is white, with the few blacks living on the out skirts of the town in run down slummy areas, while whites live in mansions. However, a little know chief who is white welcomes a black detective to Sparta, Mississippi to help him solve a case. As I have watched this show time and time again, it is funny to see how people in this fictional community communicate. The town is filled with hatred, but also people in Sparta communicate on a whole different level some because of race, and some because of dominancy. Despite a heavily prejudice police department, expertise have bought together this African American detective and a chief who by no means welcomes this individual, but because he does not have a choice, and Mr. Virgil Tibbs is asked to help, he is forced to communicated on a level that he would not have communicated. In fictional Sparta, a co-culture was formed in the police force in a multicultural society. Typically white copes run the police department with a few blacks in the background, but they get the dirty jobs. Along come Virgil Tibbs and their world is turned upside down because now you have a African American who knows what he is doing, but how does he begin to communicate this to where he is understood and not Judged for the color of his skin but for his expert...
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...For this assignment, I chose the 2013 film Her, written and directed by Spike Jonze. The main characters in the cast were Joaquin Phoenix (the main character) and Scarlett Johansson. In the movie, the main character, Theodore (played by Joaquin Phoenix), is struggling to get over his ex-wife. While he attempts to find someone else to love, he can’t seem to stop thinking about his ex. Since he is so obsessed with his mobile device, he decides to purchase a new OS (operating system), advertised as artificial intelligence. The virtual assistant, Samantha (played by Scarlett Johansson), ends up becoming more than just a friend to Theodore. Not only does Samantha organize his data and get his appointments up to date, but she also has the ability...
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...them. These characteristics include race, gender, and class. The film Precious directed by Lee Daniel in 2009 represents life of a young, illiterate girl, who suffers from sexual abuse and home violence as nobody can protect her except her old grandmother. The plot of the film shows that how the main character’s life has been affected by these characteristics. Throughout the movie we see that Precious does not live but exists in the world of a relentless treatment of her family at home and peers at school. Thus, the main idea of the film reveals that race and gender inequality can destroy the life of a black girl, who goes through several stages...
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...Midterm #1 Essays 1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) Adaptations of classical works, arrangements of well-known melodies, and newly composed music are the three basic types of music that is heard in The Birth of the Nation. Adaptations of Classical Works involve large action and dramatic scenes in most cases, but, Mass a passage in the Birth of the Nation that was attributed to Mozart that was used for the ending and also during Lincoln’s assassination. But most commonly Classical works is placed in tense, apprehensive, action and violent moments throughout the film. Arrangements of well-known melodies are primarily used to bring about emotions and create the disposition or set the moods. Tunes such as “Maryland, My Maryland” and “Dixie” are put into the film to create a brighter, not as tense view. New music which is the third basic type of music that is head in original scores during the silent film era with specific examples from The Birth of the Nation, D.W Griffith uses new music to create themes that represent the aspect of the story and also to alter the themes to reflect the changes that are occurring in the story. 2) What is the role of source music in Casablanca? (10 points) Casablanca uses source music to identify a scene, to compliment the character or mood, and to introduce the famous melody. Casablanca is set around a war and...
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