Sound Effects College Essays Samples For Students

The Hong Kong martial arts films have evolved over time in terms of theme, plot and style. While some transformations in terms of themes have occurred in response to historical events pitying China and other countries across the globe, other transformations have occurred as a result of development technology. There have been significant changes in the style, colour, and music among other film settings. This essay looks into the generic characteristics and historical evolution of Hong Kong martial arts, action, and/or gangster/crime-thriller films in terms of theme, plot, and style. Three movies used as illustrations for this discussion include: Enter ...

Business

Sound in the television or film is for the purpose of supporting the story of the documentary, television program, narrative, or a film. However, sound can be so effective that it may explain the entire story directly, and it can also be used indirectly in order to enhance effects of movie’s story. It has been argued that television sound is different to film sound. This is because of the fact that there are different perceptual methods and mechanisms for the picture and sound in the television and film; the sound may, however, be integrated by the spectators or the ...

As a rule there are many components which compose the plot of a story. Some of them have a clearly central place in a text like major characters of a story. The others might seem quite peripheral and supplemental rather than independent and self-sufficient; still, they constitute an indispensable part of the story and help the writer convey the necessary mood and reach the desirable effect on the reader. Among the latters the setting of the story should be considered.
Even though the setting is not an active agent in the story, it plays a very significant role: with no actual actions prescribed by ...

History of Developing Manga

Isao Shimizu, author of ‘the history of Manga’ / ‘Manga no Rekishi’, cites drawings from the 12th and 13th century as the first manga texts. Today manga is part of the pop culture in Japan and the world over. It comprises of story-driven narratives (usually a complete novel-like work of an author), composed with stylized illustrations, flexible use of linguistic text (onomatopoeic and spoken) and discursive frames. It uses visual designs manipulated to function as iconographic. Manga has identifiable vocabularies and registers temporal spatial relationships into the characters in the narration to give them multiple voices, personalities and mental states ...

Final Film Critique

Introduction to Film, English 225
Dr. Dwight Paulsen
Final Film Critique
Crash is a crime drama film in 2004, co – written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. This film is regarding social and racial tensions and its effect on various people in Los Angeles, California. The movie is an inspired self – described “passion piece,” after a real – life incident happened outside a video store in Wilshire Boulevard when Paul Haggis’s Porsche is carjacked in 1991. During the two days in Los Angeles, among the major characters intertwined in the story is a black detective with a Hispanic detective partner and a ...

The Asian Horror films that we have viewed for the previous ten weeks were impressive to analyze and view. Last term, I had the experience of attending the lecture of a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film; this term is much different. In contrast to the last term, this term included diverse horror films from different countries in Asia, and last term was Japanese films only. Each film during this term has their own characteristic including directing style, unique way of thrilling the audience, and the way in which the message and theme of each film is delivered. Comparing the genres of Asian ...

Introduction

Mobile phone applications are very important components for the enhanced functionality of the mobile devices. The applications help in enhancing user friendliness of the device as it ensures enhanced performance. The applications can also in some cases be delivered as web applications using the client-server side processing, the client side processing or the server side processing. Development of software involves computer programming and all the processes which are involved during the production of given software until the final version of the software is produced. It includes the process on software conception all the way to the manifestation of the ...

Tennyson, “The Eagle”. Discussion Question: How is the solitary eagle’s strength emphasized in the first stanza? Does the reader “join” the eagle in the second stanza? How or how not?
The reader joins the eagle in his dive in the second stanza through the metaphorical comparison with a thunderbolt. Captivated by the bird’s masterful and exact description in the first part of the poem, the reader has no choice but to follow the eagle’s majestic fall towards the water. This is also achieved by the personification of the predator, as the author uses pronouns “he”, and “ ...

Shaun of the Dead's narrative follows a classic pattern of equilibrium, disequilibrium and equilibrium. This scene is part of a sequence that establishes the disequilibrium in the narrative by establishing a post-apocalyptic setting that the main characters must contend with. This clip opens at 51:51 and ends at 53:56 (“Shaun of the Dead”). It begins with Shaun racing outside of his house away from a zombie who has attacked him. His friend Ed comes following after, with his car key in hand. Two unassuming guys are suddenly in an unfathomable situation and taken by fear as they narrowly escape ...

Introduction

There are a number of ways by which the media forms communicate with their audience and tend to convey the underlying themes and ideas using them. Specifically, in the case of films, the use of visual content, sound, construction of a shot and it’s editing, performance, recording, etc. It is obvious that an effective use of visuals aided by supporting multimedia always results in a deeper impact on the audience as the visual has a deeper response generation from the brain. This concept, when strategically used in the making of films results in tremendous changes in terms of ...

Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula

The Film Dracula directed by Godfather trilogy director Francis Ford Coppola and based on the book by Bram Stoker, released in 1992. The story was slightly revamped from the book and it was modified to adapt to the culture of the 1990s. As in Stoker's book, sexuality forms the core part of the film. It defines the characters in many ways.
The scene in which the Dracula and Harker were together alone, shows great passion and closeness between these two. The scene where Dracula shaves Harker in front of a mirror and when the mirror reflects only Harker, it ...

Film Studies

Influence of Sound on Taxi Driver
Sound is one the most underrated influences on development of character, narrative, and aspects of the movie genre. One such movie that had great sound design was the movie Taxi Driver that came out in 1976. The most influential parts of the movie that include sound are the dialogue, sound effects, and music. All three of these categories move the development and narrative of the movie forward, portraying changes in character as well as storyline. For Taxi Driver sound played a major part in the movie. Using these three categories of sound, this ...

The Shirt – Shelly Niro

The Shirt by Shelly Niro is a great example of work, in which we see how all its elements work together to create the right impression. Such productive element as a sound design works here to allow us to immerse ourselves in the culture of the Native Americans. Thus, the music used in the film is as important as settings, costumes and acting.
Sound design in The Shirt is meant to support the message of the film. It does not work separately from other elements, but is used to help in telling the story and creating the images in the ...

In the 1988 film “Young Guns”, the story retells the adventures of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid. Directed by Christopher Cain. “Young Guns” expands upon the western genre, by taking a real life villain and make his exploits an entertaining and sometimes humorous adventure. The film explores a brotherhood between young men as they join together for a shared cause.
The film falls within the western genre, however it has been modernized to fit today’s audiences. The western genre typically refers to any film ‘set in the late 19th century”. This film certainly falls within this description. There are many ...

New Fantanas Fanta commercial

The commercial is indeed persuasive employing every element of rhetorical in its correct length and taste. The commercial runs for thirty one seconds, which is just enough time to catch the attention of the audience without being boring any segments. The commercial employs the three, ethos, logos and pathos collectively meshing up into a product that addresses the objective. This paper shall illustrate the use of the three persuasive styles in the commercial. In overall, it should be appreciated that the commercial effectively employs other forms such as sound effects, impressive background coloration and a cast that the audience is likely ...

On April 30th, I attended a performance of the play "Marisol: The Edge of the Apocalypse," written by Jose Rivera and performed at the Victoria Espinosa Theatre in Santurce as part of the Festival of Puerto Rican Theater, in association with the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. It starred an amazing cast, including Lissette Cruz and Dolores Pedro, playing the titular Marisol and a black angel, respectively. In essence, the show was an experimental, vibrant and thought-provoking piece in which a woman is used as a tipping point for the angels, who choose to rebel against God. The result is an exercise in ...