Essays on Montage

Question A

The increased ability to collect massive amounts of data and “connect the dots” may have both positive and negative implications on people as individuals. The effect of this ability on individuals may be caused indirectly by other parties such as those in commerce and government. One positive implication on individuals is the improved ability to determine what one needs versus what one wants. An indirect contributor in such a case is the marketing companies that may take advantage of this technique of collecting large amounts of data to determine what the individual wants. The individual may, therefore, receive suggestions ...

Internship Paper

The purpose of this paper is to explain the entire internship experiences that I personally and professionally encountered during the timeline of internship position as “Subway Assistant Manager”. It firstly determines the challenges and difficulties that arose during the internship program. It then describes the duties and responsibilities of the internship with respect to the performed tasks and undertaken activities. It also gives an overview of the company description including its name, location, the category of product/service, and the approximate size of the company. It then explains how the internship prepared me for the workforce through gaining of three ...

Dreams often come as crucial aspect of our lives and a focus of close considerations since they often are considered the inner sources which drive our actions and behaviors and vastly define who we are. Meanwhile, the deferred dreams have great impact on the personality and affects one's attitudes and perceptions in many different ways. Just as there is a diversity of dream, the experiences related to its deferral are both widely diverse and truly unique, as it may be seen in the characters of the “Fences” by August Wilson. This essay thereby aims to analyze the dreams of ...

The ‘shopping montage’ is a well-worn trope in film and television, and so many recent examples of the montage deliberately call attention to it and subvert its conventions for comedy. This is clear in the Parks and Recreation episode “Pawnee Rangers,” in which the characters of Tom and Donna go to the mall to try on clothes in an annual ritual they call “Treat Yo Self.” During this montage, Donna and Tom alternatingly appear in incredibly gaudy clothing and explain their desire to have that outfit, to which the other dramatically declares, “treat yo self!” In context, the characters ...

The Godfather is considered one of the greatest films ever made. With a screenplay by Mario Puzzo and Francis Ford Coppola the film was directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, who played a powerful part in every part in every aspect of the making of the film, overseeing the editing of William Reynolds and Peter Seler. Each scene is perfectly constructed, and works with every other shot and scene in the film to create a narrative unity. The story of the Godfather unfolds in the dialogue and plat, the story of the characters, and the visual imagery of ...

There are three technologies of editing in the cinema. In the given paper, each of them will be discussed in more detail. However, looking at the Joe Wright's picture "Pride and Prejudice", we found that not all technologies are present in this film. This fact complicates the analysis of the above-mentioned three technologies due to the lack of specific examples in the picture, which we analyze. So, I would like to start by saying that in the cinematography there are three main areas or schools of editing. The first of these is the French school of editing that most ...

Technical Communications

Executive Summary Filmmaking, like everything else, has benefitted from the development of technology. However, this evolution was slow but fruitful, enhancing the world of filmmaking, the quality of the film, and the skills of th filmmakers. From the simple idea of Louis and August Lumier, the French brothers who first screened the short film they were able to take, to the development of the phenakistoscope, or the kinetoscope, by Simon Stampfer and Joseph Plateau, the development of filmmaking technology kept moving forward. Thomas Alva Edisonand Kennedy Laurie Dickson were the first to show one shot films without any camera ...

Abstract

It can be exciting to create a subway car print campaign for a brand such as Nike. There are so many elements that go behind the design of the artwork and loads of creativity. The essay looks at the designing of a subway car print campaign for Nike as Herbert Matter, the designers. The design would focus on the elements used by the designer in his work and the way he used images fonts and graphics in his compositions. The print campaign will take inspiration from his works and will be based on his thought process. It should be ...

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Introduction

A brief glimpse into Berlin, Germany, and film and documentary production in the 1920s will provide historical context to better understand and appreciate the quality and value of this innovative documentary. Cultural life blossomed after the 15 million deaths and destruction of World War I. In the 1920s, the German film industry, despite uncertainties and financial difficulties, became firmly established and very productive (Goesch 61, 72). The emphasis on Expressionism became reality, objectivity and good times in the late 1920s. The art ...

The juxtaposition style is displayed in the opening remarks of Soviet Revolutionary, who asserts that “Revolution is war.” The assertions are accompanied by images in which water crashes on the rocks. It is a demonstration of constant collision that later shook the battleship to the end of the film. The theme of disturbance and collision is at play, and the juxtaposed ideas are made bear in the form of change that is accompanied by destruction. The two ideas are combined subconsciously to ascertain the montage theory. The theme of conflict is used for the conveyance of images to provide ...

Discussion Leader: Film Editing

Imagine the world without television, cinema, and theatres? Isn’t it dull to fathom the absence of visual entertainment? Nowadays, it is apparently obvious that humanity is dependent upon the digital technology. In fact, the trends in the cinematography and moving pictures are quite fast paced in terms of advancement and progress. So how did the world of film industry started? The film history can’t be credited to one person. It is founded by a lot of people contributing to the discoveries of motion picture. Thomas Edison is given credit for the invention of motion picture camera in ...

Introduction

Film editing has been revolutionized over the years due to a number of factors including changes in viewing behavior and technological advancement amongst others. However, there has been a more or less consistent industry trend as far and film editing is concerned. The Hollywood style of editing is the most dominant in the market and has since minimized the business scope of other film editing companies like French New Wave and Soviet Montage. This is because mod American media like commercials, music videos and televisions still follow the Hollywood style of editing. This paper discusses the various reasons why Hollywood style ...

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Eisenstein’s October

The movie, October: Ten Days that shook the world, is a film on the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. The film takes a narrative approach, and describes the events that shook St. Petersburg. The film then encompasses the roar of ravaging crowds, the sounds of soldiers marching past, the shots of guns that killed millions, the noise of the crowded buses and trains that took away the fleeing millions. With each of these symbolic representations, Eisenstein brings alive the anguish, desperation and plight of the contemporary Russians, who were struggling to cope with the fall of an incompetent monarchy, as ...

Analysis of Hiroshima, Mon Amour

When Alain Resnais’ debut feature Hiroshima, Mon Amour opened in 1959, it was celebrated in Cahiers du Cinema as the first really “modern film.” The positive reviews poured in, mostly focusing on the sophistication of the movie. It was not only a success in France, though; it played for half a year in London and New York City, and it became the symbol for the “new wave” of film that was emerging from France (Kreidl). From the very outset, this is a powerful film that continues to leave a significant impact on its audience. The prologue to the film lasts a full ten ...

Film analysis of "Alain Resnais - Night and Fog (1956)" and "Jean Luc Godard - Breathless (1959)" Each movie is a small story. Each movie carries its own information. Each movie opens the whole world to the viewer, no matter if it is full-length film or a short film or even a documentary. Still, it gives a chance to make own decisions about some particular moments. Another question is how ideal the information was given – did the director in his or her picture manage to cover all the needed aspects. It is not only related to the script. A visual point plays a ...

Literary Criticism of T. S. Eliot’s Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Introduction

The poem Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock feels as fresh to the readers now as it did to Ezra Pound when he first read it. Among other traits, Prufrock exhibits qualities of a characteristic example of modernism in literature, a literary work from the era of literary history that stood towering for its capability for never repeating the same act twice. The poem is a great example of characteristic qualities of modernist poetry namely fragmentation, montage and objective correlative. The narrator T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J ...

The beginning of the 20th Century was a very exciting time for the entertainment industry. It was a period when the making of films had gained a solid ground. People were awed by this new brand of entertainment where the actions of people could be captured on a device for them to view later. The United States, particularly Hollywood was at the forefront of this industry. It was ahead of other countries when it came to film production and, in fact, most of the first films were made in the 19th Century. However, the rest of the world was not left behind when ...

Compare and Contrast the Gold Rush and. Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. The film presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that took place in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship, Potemkin rebelled against their officers. On the other hand, “The Gold Rush” is a silent film comedy written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1925 where he stars in his Little Tramp role. The film narrates a story of the Gold Rush, where Charlie Chaplin searches for gold in Arkansas. The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast the two films by making specific ...

In his essay “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema", Andre Bazin distinguishes between "those directors who put their faith in the image and those who put their faith in reality" (Bazin 43). Here, he essentially refers to the difference that often occurs between the presentational and the representational in film – as film continues to skew towards the realistic, these works tend to emphasize verisimilitude over abstraction. Films today often feel the need to create a sense of immersion within their worlds, wherein an audience member could reasonably believe that they are watching real life unfold before their eyes. This ...

For the vast majority of the history of art, protest has been limited to the written forms. Whether it is the ancient story of Antigone, calling the codes of honor of ancient Greece into question, or Boccaccio’s Decameron, ridiculing the high horse atop which the Catholic Church attempted to perch during the Black Plague, or the portrait of infinite government surveillance in Orwell’s 1984 that still chills readers today, the tradition of protest is much older in writing than in visual arts. This should not be taken to suggest that artists in other genres did not have ...

The Shining (1980) by Stanley Kubrick

The “Shining” (1980) by Stanley Kubrick was produced with the sole intention of leaving viewers looking for answers to a mystery that has no resolution. Once audiences watch it, they end-up scratching their heads over the unrequited queries and numerous memorable mysterious images. However, what is hidden in this film is truly enthralling. The most incredible attribute of the film is what the viewer did not identify, right there on the screen. What is significant is what the viewer did not notice. Everybody expects outlandish things to take place in a horror movie. Kubrick brings ...

Assignment One: Portfolio of work Maximum

Skyfall Plot

A hard-drive that contains vital information about all the NATO operatives, who are undercover in the terrorist organizations, has been stolen and the head of British Intelligence – M is put under an embarrassing scrutiny by bureaucrats. After a near near-death incident, an out of colour 007 is sent out to retrieve the drive, as he is led to a man called Silva, who is out on a revenge mission to destroy both MI6 and M.

Review

Sam Mendes seems to be playing with the old themes, as well as the new ones with the return of 007 on its 50th ...

The Reconciliation of Opposites

We should not forget that Not Without Laughter is, above all things, a bildungsroman (Schultz, p.44), and Hughes presents its protagonist, Sandy, growing up and developing, and slowly beginning to make sense of American society, of himself and of what he wants to do in life. As Sandy matures he is faced with various choices about how to live his life, and he becomes acutely aware of certain oppositions in the novel. Furthermore, Hughes himself presents further oppositions almost all of which stem from the racist society in which Sandy lives or, if they occur within the African American community ...