...Topics to Think About at Avengers Screening * The space of the theatre (lobby, marketing of food, design, technology, promotional material etc.) * Design, architecture forced to purchase * Constructive environment * Product placement in the film’ * Beats head phones individual experience of sound * Samsung S6 * Skype * Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) –Ironman led to Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers. . .); consider cross-over, interwoven narratives; idea that characters in one film might share a universe with those in another, seemingly unrelated film * Characters back stories * Continuity within all the characters * A lot of popular culture reference within the film * Marvel’s recognizable brand * “Look” of the film (its mise-en-scene, for example) to graphic novels (comics) * Character backstories—use of flashbacks * Constructions of masculinity/femininity in the film (Black Widow’s character, in particular) * Celebrity billing/role of celebrity in creating the blockbuster film * Cameos (of celebrities and other superheroes) * Trailers/the para-film experience * Audience composition * Music—the film’s score * Engagements with issues of race/gender identity/sexuality * Power relations among the superheroes * b * Rating criteria (language, nudity, violence) * CGI/the ending * Director Joss Whedon’s celebrity status...
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...Hello and good morning/evening, what do you believe makes a relationship, is it love, friendship or is it established when you are born between your parents and siblings? How could this everyday phenomenon, which drives our will to live and excel, be so simple? “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger and “The Dark Knight” directed by Christopher Noland are my chosen examples to explore themes such as hatred, mortality and deceit, which consist of various factors affecting relationships like self-isolation, our psychological health and propaganda. “The Cather in the Rye” explores these themes in a Dark, cynical but somewhat compassionate tone, accompanied with moments of humor. “The Dark Knight” is similar and explores the themes in a dark and disturbing tone, with the addition of action. “The Catcher in the Rye” demonstrates the theme of hatred with Holden’s hate towards the adult world around him, however as a consequence this causes personal, social and mental isolation from the world and an inability to create meaningful relationships. This is the main factor for Holden’s isolation from the world, and is symbolized throughout the novel with Holden’s red hunting hat. The majority of the people he encounters are deemed as ‘phonies’ for Holden as they do not follow with his view of the world, this generalization further prevent him from making relationships and reflects upon his immaturity. The last page of the novel and more importantly the quote, “All I know is I sort...
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...is set in a woodland forest surrounded by snow and tree trunks. It shows a wide shot of the forest with a dear in the far background. Non-diagetic sound appears when the dear starts to come closer towards the camera. The non-diagetic sound is of a man repeating a prayer. This builds suspension and makes the audience question why he is narrating a prayer. The camera then walks back, and soon focuses on a rifle gun, which is pointing towards the dear, as the non-diagetic sound of the prayer is still being said. This suggests to the audience that the dear is either going to get shot for pleasure, or for food. As soon as the non-diagetic sound of the prayer ends with an “Amen”, the camera comes behind the 2 men, which shows an over shoulder shot, and the gun then gets fired. Diagetic sound of the gunshot is loud and clear. The over shoulder shot, allows us to know who is firing at the dear, and shows us from behind there point of view. Diagetic sound of the dear dying, suggests its been killed in a miserable way. As soon as the rifle has been fired, non-diagetic music appears with a slow beat thud noise. This shows that it’s the ending of the scene. As the slow beat music is playing, the man with a rough looking beard faces towards the young teen that shot the dear, in a proud manner, and taps him on the back. A tapping on the back shows proudness, and a good job. The scene changes to a wide shot of a truck driving along the highway. Non-diagetic sound of the radio is playing...
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...himself strands on a small isolated island. He has all the time to figure out how to survive. In the film we can see the use of visual techniques in showing changes of the main character. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of character. A wide shot is used after the plane crushes, When chuck was struggling on the yellow life raft floating alone in the big ocean and at that time the weather was bad, heavily raining. This is shows us how small and how powerless he is. The director also uses a when shot when Chuck first arrive the island to show a empty place with no life, no ship and no technology so this means he has to finds water, food shelter and a way to prevent himself from being destroyed by loneliness. Another camera shot that the director uses is close up shots. The close up shots are focusing on his face and hand when he was making a fire to show us that it is huge progress from him because we can see he bites his lip, grills his teeth and there are some sweat on his face. He is concentrating very hard. There are other close up focused on his hand when he used his finger to draw eyes, nose and mouth and gives it a name ‘Wilson’ He shares his feelings with it. This is significant as the volleyball becomes his companion. The most important close up shot is focused on the pocket watch. The director was to represent to us that it is a symbol of Chuck’s love for Kelly even though it is broken but it is still important for him because it has Kelly’s photo...
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...Essay Shot Breakdown Touch of Evil Scene: Opening Tracking Shot 1. Close up of a man’s hands setting off a ticker attached to a bomb. This can be seen as a symbol as if the tracking shot is being timed. 2. The camera follows the man as he proceeds to run to a nearby car to plant the bomb into the trunk. 3. The man runs off and the camera drifts upwards. 4. Overhead shot of a couple approaching the car and entering, unaware of the bomb being planted. 5. The car is started and the crane follows the direction of the car but a building blocks our vision of the car for a few seconds building suspense. 6. The car reappears on screen and turns and stops at an intersection where a police officer is directing traffic. As this happens the camera pans backwards leaving the car in a further distance from the camera. 7. The car starts to move towards the camera until it stops at the next intersection. 8. A couple walking together cross at this intersection and the car drives out of the shot and we now focus on the couple walking. 9. We continue to follow the couple as the car reappears driving behind them. Festive Mexican music is heard in the background. 10. Many vendors with their carts run across the couple numerous times scurrying around, showing it is a busy street. 11. The couple walks side by side with the car as they approach the U.S/Mexican border. The couple shows the border officers their identification...
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...with a point of view shot of David. It shows a corner of the room. In the room, an ambience sound is like from the universe. The next shot is an extreme close-up of David. Some colorful reflections of light fall on his face. David’s head shakes. His face is reddish with a tense expression. This shot has a warm tone. By contrast, the following shot has a cooler tone. It is a view of the bedroom with the dock station in it. This wide shot shows the mise-en-scene. The room design is classic European style. Then there are two more shots of different angles of the same scene. The next shot repeats the extreme close-up of David, which appears earlier. The David’s breath gets heavier. Then, it is cut to the shot that is shown at the very beginning of the Room sequence, but this time David himself stands beside the bathroom in red spacesuit. The red color is in a sharp contrast with the room color. Following that, the film is cut to medium shot of David, and then cut to close-up of David’s wrinkled face. Next is a wide shot that shows David crosses the room along a diagonal line. In the following shot, David walks in the bathroom, which does not show the continuity of the spacing. In other words, the editing does not follow the continuity of the character’s movement. Then, the camera pans from left to right in the bathroom. The camera angle is high, as if David looks down, to show the bathtub, floor, etc. After a close-up of David, there is an aperture-framing shot, in which, David looks...
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...Threshold Of Revelation By Christopher A. Johnson Scene 1 FADE IN on a long shot of New York City, approaching from the south. It is dusk, and the lights of the city are beginning to twinkle against the backdrop of the vibrant city. Quick cuts to street level scenes of well-known locales between title cards naming the cast. These scenes and title cards are cut with a moving shot of the George Washington Bridge (span, cables, deck, towers, etc.) from different angles and perspectives. . The credits end on one continuous shot as we approach a figure standing on the south side of the bridge, staring out over the Hudson River and the lights of Manhattan to the south. This is DECKER JONAS. He is tall and striking, wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and a hoodie. The camera then circles behind Decker going from left to right, catching Deckers view of the city at sunset. As the camera completes its half circle to the right and comes to a complete stop at DECKER’S ¾ profile we see he is holding a piece of paper, it is folded, he unfolds the paper and begins to read, a voice over begins. It is Decker’s voice. DECKER: Mom. Dad. I feel as though I’m losing myself again. [ 1. PAN to OS Right showing the letter] I know I am. I can feel life spinning away from me, and this time I have nothing to hold on to. Its as though I’m on one of those tacky carnival rides that Dad would take me on at Edgewater Days when I was a kid, although now he’s not there to hold...
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...MONOLOGUE Ten seconds left. I can barely hear anything. I feel the vomit creeping up in my throat as the milliseconds go by. Everything is getting very blurry. Tension is rising. Who would have thought that we would be down by one point and I would be the one trusted to hold this basketball? Why did my coach want me to shoot the last shot in the first place? What do I bring on this court that is any different from what my teammates would bring? Every face on my bench is almost frozen, their eyes locked on to me and the ball. There are hundreds of people in the stands watching my every move. Deep breath. Every little thing has to be on point. Nine seconds. I just want to pass the ball away over to my teammate, get rid of it. Why not? Who cares what my coach says? He’s the one who put me in this situation anyways. Eight seconds left. Its just too embarrassing to miss THE final shot in THE final game of the season. I have earned every second I stepped foot on this court and worked too hard for this shot to be a miss. All the time spent practicing and all the injuries, I just cant let myself and everyone down. Seven seconds. I see everyone in the stands jumping up and down but can barely hear them. What do they want from me? i’m 18 years old for crying out loud! It’s not like I’m in the NBA here! I want to see them try and step foot in my shoes right now... Nonsense, focus. My defender looks really intimidating. His muscles contract as his thumbs rub against his fingertips...
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...Ten seconds left. I can barely hear anything. I feel the vomit creeping up in my throat as the milliseconds go by. Everything is getting very blurry. Tension is rising. Who would have thought that we would be down by one point and I would be the one trusted to hold this basketball? Why did my coach want me to shoot the last shot in the first place? What do I bring on this court that is any different from what my teammates would bring? Every face on my bench is almost frozen, their eyes locked on to me and the ball. There are hundreds of people in the stands watching my every move. Deep breath. Every little thing has to be on point. Nine seconds. I just want to pass the ball away over to my teammate, get rid of it. Why not? Who cares what my coach says? He’s the one who put me in this situation anyways. Eight seconds left. Its just too embarrassing to miss THE final shot in THE final game of the season. I have earned every second I stepped foot on this court and worked too hard for this shot to be a miss. All the time spent practicing and all the injuries, I just cant let myself and everyone down. Seven seconds. I see everyone in the stands jumping up and down but can barely hear them. What do they want from me? i’m 18 years old for crying out loud! It’s not like I’m in the NBA here! I want to see them try and step foot in my shoes right now... Nonsense, focus. My defender looks really intimidating. His muscles contract as his thumbs rub against his fingertips. Boy does he want...
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...Design Elements: Set it Off ENG 225 Design Elements: Set it Off From the beginning films have helped pinpoint different elements of design. Through these elements, both film critics and viewers have been able to identify with what the director is trying to convey. According to this week’s assignment, we are to choose a scene from movieclips.com and in a three to five page paper, analyze the mise-en-scène through the elements of design. This leads me to my chosen film, Set it Off. This movie is formed around an extreme bank robbery in which reveals the dwells upon the lives of four women. This film takes place the streets of Southern California and helps give inside as to how these women do any and everything just to get by and make it on their own. Because tragedy and poverty strikes the women’s’ lives, they matters into their own hands and turn to robbing banks to make an escape from the city and lifestyle they have been surrounded by for years. The key actors in Set it Off are the following: Queen Latifah played as Cleopatra Sims (Cleo), Vivica Fox played as Francesca Sutton (Frankie), Jada Pinkett played as Lida Newsom (Stony), and Kimberly Elise played as Tisean Williams (T.T). These four childhood friends felt that the series of unfortunate events that have constantly occurred in their lives were just enough to push them over the edge and into the world of bank robbery (Polluck & Gray, 1996). This story is set to touch those who have been...
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...1. Drunkin Monk servings (That's totally up to you) INGREDIENTS 1 part Frangelico 1 part Vodka Pour over ice and sip. Taste great and good for kissing 2. CRANBERRY MIMOSA . . . Toast with This. 4 servings INGREDIENTS 10 oz cranberry juice 750 ml bottle of dry champagne 20 cranberries Pour 2.5 ounces of juice per glass, top off with 6 ounces of champagne, garnish with 5 cranberries. 3. This Weeks Recipe: Primo Margarita 1-1/2 oz. Patron Silver Tequila (Try other silver tequilas, just make sure that your tequila is 100 percent Agave) 3/4-oz. Cointreau 2 oz. fresh sour freshly-squeezed juice of one lime Directions: Prepare fresh sour by simply mixing 2 parts fresh, filtered lemon juice with 1 part simple syrup. To make simple syrup, dissolve an equal amount of granulated sugar in boiling water (i.e, 2 cups sugar dissolved in 2 cups boiling water) and allow to cool. Select the perfect limes, they should be Peruvian limes, dark-green, soft and pliable. Store your limes at room temperature and roll them on a hard surface for maximum juice extraction. Hand-extract lime juice, using a juice extractor, into a 16 oz. mixing glass. Add fresh sour, Cointreau and tequila to mixing glass. Add ice and shake until well blended. Strain your Margarita into an ice-filled 14 oz. goblet. Remember, never use the same ice to serve a drink as you used to prepare it. Garnish with a wedge of lime.Salting the rim of glass is not recommended. If, however, you want...
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...How far do the narratives of love actually and notting hill communicate similar values and messages 40 marks 50 mins exam Love actually is a film directed by Richard Curtis and is a Working Title film, released in 2003 and is presented as a romantic comedy. The film is set in London and follows a period of five weeks and outlines the story of eight, intertwined people and aims predominantly to explore the complexities and importance of the most important emotion of all: love. Some of the characters touched upon in this film are David (Hugh Grant), the classically attractive newly elected Prime Minister, who controversially finds himself falling for his newly appointed young maid Natalie (Marine McCutcheon). Mark (Andrew Lincoln), a dedicated photographer who falls in love with his best friends newly wedded wife Juliet (Keira Knightly), who takes no interest in him and Harry (Alan Rickman), a married man tempted by his attractive new secretary. Similarly NottingHill is also a Working Title film presented as a romantic comedy, released four years earlier in 1999 however. This film is also set in London, with much of the same cast being used, however this film is centred around the story of two characters love in particular, not focusing on every other story line within. The pair of lovers focused on in this film are William (Hugh Grant) and Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), who find it increasingly difficult to form and maintain a relationship due to such a difference in their lifestyles;...
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...SQUASH RULES AND REGULATIONS Scoring * Games are played to 21 points in first legs and in further round will be extended to 3 sets of 11 points. * Points are awarded to the winner of the rally, regardless of who served that point (think of it like volleyball or tennis scoring) * Games must be won by 2 points. Service * On a player's first serve, they may choose the side they will serve from * The serving player must alternate sides for each service beyond the first * The server must begin in the back half of the court with at least one foot in the service box for that side * Once struck, the ball must hit the front wall above the front service line (middle of the three lines painted at the front), and bounce behind the floor service line on the opponent's side of the half-court line (see figure) * If the ball hits on or below the service line, lands on or before the floor service line, or lands on the wrong side of the half-court line, the serve is ruled out * There are no "faults" or "re-serves" in squash (unless agreed upon by both players due to a distraction or someone not being ready) - If a serve lands out the point is awarded to the opponent * The serve may hit any walls (including the back wall) before bouncing, provided that it hits the front wall first * There are no restrictions to the service motion - you may hit the ball overhead, underhand, backhand, forehand, between-the-legs, or eyes-shut Rallies * Once a rally...
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...product. The feedback which I got from the target audience is that the product overall is educational and that the information given on each page was the right amount. The users also commented on the videos, they believed that the videos form the techniques section was a good idea of for the users to actually visualize the shot and that they will be more likely to understand how to do the shots and will be able to do it themselves. Another user also commented on the rollover buttons which are on the menu page; they thought that it was an interesting feature to the product. Also they said that the navigation of the product was easy as I had every button on each page which made it easy for them to look at different pages without them going back to the menu page. Improvements to be made from the feedback: One of the test users stated out that I have included a smash shot on the introduction animation; however, I didn’t include this particular shot on the techniques page. I will include a page which gives information about the smash shot; this is because the user who stated out the error is a professional badminton player and wrote that this is shot is the shots which are used in badminton. I will include relevant information about the forehand smash and backhand smash and also I will...
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...Bird------A commonly used term for the shuttle, the missile used in place of a ball Block-------Placing the racket in front of the shuttle and letting it rebound into the opponent's side of the court. Not a stroke. Carry-------Momentarily holding the shuttle on the racket during the execution of a stroke. Also called a sling or a throw. This is an illegal procedure. Center or Basic Position-Position in which a player stands in relation to the lines of the court, the net, the opponent, and the shuttle. The spot approximately in the center of the court to which a player tries to return after each shot. Clear-----Sometimes known as a "lob", this shot is hit high and deep to the back of the opponent's court. Court----Area of play. Although the size varied during the 1800's, it has been standardized since the 1930's. It is 20' by 44' for doubles, and 17' by 44' for singles. Crosscourt Shots---Shots hit diagonally from one side of the court to the other Deception---The art of deceiving or outwitting one's opponent. Accomplished in badminton with deceptive stroking by changing the direction and speed of the shuttle at the last minute. Double Hit---Hitting the shuttle twice in succession on the same stroke, An illegal procedure...
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