How do Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg build up tension and suspense in the opening chapter of the novel and the opening scene of the film
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Drama Production Log : Hamlet Extract.
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Baz Lurhman describes 'Moulin Rouge' as "Audience Participation Cinema" - With close reference to the opening of the film, analyse the techniques he uses to remind us that "we are watching a movie".
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For my essay I am comparing two different types of TV drama; 'Hustle' which is a 'Series Drama' and 'Lost' which is a 'Serial Drama'. Hustle is shown on BBC1 and the Hallmark Channel weekly
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How and in what ways have film signs been used in Nick Park's 'The Wrong Trousers'? To what extent do these signs create the desired effect on the film's target audience?
How and in what ways have film signs been used in Nick Park's 'The Wrong Trousers'? To what extent do these signs create the desired effect on the film's target audience? 'The Wrong Trousers' is an animation about the adventures of Wallace, the human, his pet dog Gromit and the trouble that the techno trousers creates for them. Nick Park has aimed to make an animation that is appealing to all age groups and audiences. He has achieved this by using a variety of different film signs and media coding, which create an interesting and amusing result. Music is a film sign that plays a major part in creating various moods throughout the animation. It tells the audience the emotions they should be feeling. This begins by the brass band music, or theme tune, playing whilst Wallace and Gromit are first introduced; at the very beginning of the animation. This upbeat music creates a happy mood and the recurring tune tells the audience that this is ordinary life for the characters. The mood is then quickly changed when the techno trousers are introduced. The music is suddenly reminiscent of the theme tune in a 1950's horror movie, typical scary music. This automatically tells the audience that the techno trousers are going to create problems for Wallace and Gromit. The music is also used to show the different personalities of the characters and their different emotions. For example,
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"Independent Film Industries Reinforce The Global Construction Of The Hybrid Genre" Discuss
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Too much punch for Judy.
The title of the topic that we have done for the past couple of weeks is "drugs and alcohol", for this topic of work we read the play "Too much punch for Judy" written by Mark Wheel in 1987. In the first week, and half of the second week we read the play so that we would knew what it was about. The play is about 2 sisters that get quite drunk but still decide to drive the car. This results in there being a car accident, and one of the sister's die. The target audience is for people in their late teens and for people who have just started to drive. The ending of the lay was very unpredictable because earlier on in the play Judy had said that she wouldn't drink and drive again. But she DID, this mistake had the same consequence as the time before, she killed another young woman. I would have thought that by killing one person she would have learnt from her mistake. The play had an excellent ending because it made me think that once a criminal always a criminal and one stupid mistake can be repeated which results in the same outcome as before. The best scene from the play was the nightclub scene because it stood out a lot, it was very loud "in your face" sort of scene. In this scene I could really see the personalities of both sisters, they are both very loud and flirtatious. My favourite character form the play is Judy because she is very loud and big character. With in the
How does the Director encourage the audience to feel sympathy for Derek and his family?
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Evaluating The Silence Of The Lambs.
Essay on "The Silence Of The Lambs." The film which I am evaluating is called "The Silence of the Lambs" and is based on Thomas Harris' novel and is directed by Jonathan Demme. The film was shot in Pittsburgh and is set in West Virginia. In the making of this film careful research was carried out in bringing each character to life especially Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb. This included the actors being at crime scenes and viewing files about previous serial killers in order to fit into their characters properly. Jonathan Demme cleverly blended together different characteristics from other mass murderers in order to make Buffalo Bill realistic and fearsome. In the film "Psycho" Norman Bates uses mirrors to see himself. A hallmark used in the film by Buffalo Bill. Ted Bundy another well known serial killer who used charm and wit to gain women's trust and sympathy before abducting them, another trait which is used in the film when he claims to have a broken arm whilst struggling to put his settee in his van and a woman passer-by helps him then gets bundled in to the back of his van before being slaughtered. Finally, Demme used Gary Michael Heidnik characteristics of how he kidnapped women and tortured them in his basement. This is also used in the film when Buffalo Bill puts a woman down a shaft in his lair. From the very moment when they started filming, this film had realistic