How is a feeling of suspense created in the station scene, from the film 'The Untouchables'.

How Is A Feeling Of Suspense Created In The Station Scene, From The Film 'The Untouchables' - By Leo Matlock 11R In this essay I will analyze the railway scene in the film 'The Untouchables'. I will mainly concentrate on the creation of suspense; I will be looking at the three things that directors use to create different types of atmosphere. These three things are camera angles and movement, the use of sound and lighting and to what extent they contribute. This scene is supposed to be a tense ending to the violence, the final shoot out to try and get Al Capone put in prison. The audience would probably be quite confused and wondering who is who and why each thing is happening. This confusion adds to the tension. The scene (and film) is set in Chicago during the 1930's. In the 1930's America was under prohibition, prohibition meant that it was illegal to sell, make or transport alcohol. Although this rule was made there was still a lot of money to be made with alcohol through bootlegging. Bootlegging was illegally selling alcohol, almost everyone knew about bootlegging and where to buy alcohol. Obviously the alcohol was sold at a higher price then it would be usually, much much higher, this meant that the consumer still had to spend a lot of money for it, which detracted from the original point of prohibition which was to stop people spending money on alcohol as the

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What is so special with Madonna? She has been succesfully famous for 20 years, some artist dont even last one year.

Madonna What is so special with Madonna? She has been succesfully famous for 20 years, some artist don´t even last one year. It was august 16 th, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan when Madona Ciccone gave birth to a little girl, the girl was named Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. She was the third of eight children in a large Italian family. Two older brothers, two younger brothers and three little sisters. Madonnas father, Sylivio Ciccone, wanted each child to learn how to play a musicalinstrument but Madonna was more interested in dancing so she was allowed to take ballet lessons. When Madonna had reach the age og six her mother died in breastcancer and as the oldest daughter, Madonna is given some responsibility for the household ande her younger sisters. Her father later remarries the former housekeeper. But Madonna could never love her like she loved her mother. Madonna and her family moved to Rochester, Michigan where she graduates from Rochester Adams high school in 1976. In high school Madonna was a cheerleader and straight- A student. There she fel in love with dancing and sometimes she could spend up to five hours a day taking dance classes and working out. With a scholarship she goes to the university of Michigan, where she studies dance for three semesters. Madonna decides that dancing would be her way to the stars and her way out of Rochester. In 1978,

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Grateful Dead

Ben Libby Research Paper November 22nd, 2007 Grateful Dead Arguably the most successful touring band of all time, the Grateful Dead was famous as much for its traveling tie-died caravan of "Deadheads" and the accompanying drugs, as it was for its long concerts and spotty album releases. Since the bands beginning in the sixties, Deadheads have happily preserved the hippie ethic of that era- in fashion and have followed the band around the country, collecting tapes of shows, and enjoying the vintage camaraderie. (ABC, p.1). From 1965 to 1995 Jerry Garcia acted as a prophet by leading hundreds of thousands of fans, young and old, across the nation and overseas. Garcia was not just a singer and guitar player; he was the untouchable God who put inspiration in the lives of people. The playing of a guitar tune with the modest voice of Jerry to back it up has driven these crowds of people to seek a friendship with their surrounding world. He had a way of passing on the fragility of life that somehow really nailed it. When he sang sad songs he had a fire and a fragment of pure joy in his voice, but when he sang happy songs there was always a mystery behind his words. His fans seek freedom, to look beyond the materialism of today, and appreciate what has been given to. The lead singer and reason that Grateful Dead was started is Jerome "Jerry" Garcia. Jerry's childhood had been

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Many different music styles emerged during the early 1960's. One of these music styles that was perhaps the most prominent music style to ever come out of Southern California was Surf Music.

Collier 1 Many different music styles emerged during the early 1960's. One of these music styles that was perhaps the most prominent music style to ever come out of Southern California was Surf Music. Surf music was a short-lived phenomenon that occurred from 1961 to 1965 (Nostalgia, 2002). Along with the surf music craze, Hollywood also started producing numerous movies about surfing, including Gidget, and Endless Summer (St. James Encyclopedia, 2003 and Nostalgia, 2002). These movies had some amazing soundtracks that helped popularize the surf music phenomenon. There are two different forms of surf music; instrumental and vocal (Holm, 1998 and St. James Encyclopedia, 2003). The instrumental groups included Dick Dale and the Del-tones, The Ventures, The Chantays, and The Surfaris, and their bands generally consisted of one or two guitar players, a bass player, a drummer, and sometimes a keyboard, sax, or horns (Holm, 1998 and St. James Encyclopedia, 2003). Their music is characterized by a simple song structure (usually based around three chords), reverbed guitars, and rolling, wave-like instrumentals (Wikipedia, 2003). Generally, the devoted fans of these groups were surfers themselves (Nostalgia, 2002). The vocal groups included The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean (Holm, 1998 and St. James Encyclopedia, 2003). Rather than having that wave-like, surf sound

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Global music sales are presently around $US 37 billion, however there are indications that physical music sales - predominantly compact discs (CD's), mini discs (MD's), cassettes and vinyl - have reached a state of market saturation,

Introduction Global music sales are presently around $US 37 billion, however there are indications that physical music sales - predominantly compact discs (CD's), mini discs (MD's), cassettes and vinyl - have reached a state of market saturation, and may even be declining for some music formats. For example, Diebold, a leading German management and technology consultancy company, observed that global music sales fell from $41.5 billion in 1995 to $38.5 billion in 1999 (1). This decline is possibly because of the increase in Internet users worldwide and the creation of MP3's and companies such as Napster. Understandably, these research findings raise concerns about the future of music as a product, particularly with regard to youngsters, whose future music purchasing habits are being influenced by the availability of free music over the Internet. Offsetting these concerns about the future of music, as a product is the fact that delivery of music over the Internet (i.e. music as a service) is expected to expand significantly over the next five years (2). For example, sales of digital downloads are forecasted to increase from $22 million in 2001 to $1.6 billion in 2006. However, most online music sales will come from subscription services, which are forecast to increase from $56 million in 2001 to $2.3 billion in 2006 (3). The increasing role of the Internet in the distribution

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Let Him Have It Essay.

8th June 2003 Let Him Have It Essay The Film was made to make people feel sorry for Derek Bentley by making us think he's the victim. It made people sad for him. I felt sorry for him because he didn't deserve a death sentence and that the coppers just wanted to blame someone. They use lots of different ways to manipulate us. Manipulation means, with skill to influence by unfair means or cunning. E.g. to give a false appearance to. They manipulate us before we see it by the pictures on the front cover. There are 2 men from the film there. One is called Christopher Craig who in the picture is wearing black, looked pale. Gangster style hat, a smirk, light shiner one him holding a gun. This already makes us thinks that he is the bad guy and not to trust him and he is the cause of trouble. The other character is Derek Bentley who is smaller than Craig, Appears younger, innocent and vulnerable. He has a scared expression contrasted with Craig because the light shines on Craig. Derek looks weak a bit and also as if he is in trouble for something he didn't do. The film is biased in some ways because Iris Bentley helped Peter Medak, the films director to make the film. She would have given her point on view of Derek. She might have made it out that Derek is the innocent one and he was pushed into doing things, because of his illness. The film also uses the effects of music, Camera

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Chicken Run media essay

Chicken Run media essay Wallace and Gromit eat your heart out there's a new chick in town! Chicken Run, directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park is a sensational clay animation. A new piece of cinematic excellence to be added the title 'a classic', with its side-splitting humour, astounding action and stunning stop motion Chicken Run is a film well worth watching. I can guarantee you won't be disappointed! Enough about how good the film is; what is it about? Chicken Run is an all round great film for all the family. Ever wondered what chickens dream about? More chicken feed? A bigger coop? Not in the case of head chicken Ginger; all she wishes for is freedom for all the chickens at Tweedy's farm! On her countless attempts to escape she has been caught by Mr. Tweedy on every occasion. Suddenly, out of no where, appears a radical rooster (Rocky) who claims he can fly! Ginger is convinced her prayers have been answered and Rocky is the key to their freedom. Meanwhile Mrs. Tweedy has a monstrous money making plot to make her chickens into pies! The chickens are in a race against time to get themselves out of this foul situation! I am going to enlighten you into how the film makers use Mise-en-scene, language and character interaction to create Good and Evil amongst the characters. For all you newcomers to the film industry this means through the use of: Lighting, sets/props,

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Account for some of the ways in which Bollywood popular culture has been used and translated in the South Asian diaspora

Account for some of the ways in which Bollywood popular culture has been used and translated in the South Asian diaspora. The centre of the Indian movie industry is in the Indian city known as Bombay, which has since been renamed Mumbai. Owing to the industrial resemblance with the American movie city Hollywood, the Indian movie industry came to be known as Bollywood. Bollywood is now an industry of massive proportions, and far from simply producing cinema; it is also closely interwoven with industries concerned with music, clothes, magazines, DVDs, jewellery and cosmetics. Bollywood has become popular culture, which is distributed worldwide and sells at a phenomenal pace. The Bollywood film, far from its popularity being isolated to India, has also found popularity amongst 'Indians' in Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka etc), countries where Indians were originally sent as indentured labourers such as South Africa, Jamaica and Mauritius, and increasingly with the growing group of Indians in western countries, especially Great Britain, Australia, Canada and the USA. The Swedish anthropologist Hannerz describes these groups of people descending from one source culture and living across the globe as a global ecumenicity. The concept no longer refers to the biblical diaspora in which the expulsion of the Jews determined the image. The present notion of diaspora is

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Sorce related study on Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley Coursework Q.1. Study Source A. What can you learn about Elvis Presley's impact on popular music in the USA in 1955 from Source A? (6 marks) Source A is from an article in "Billboard" magazine. This magazine is written for teenagers, who are Elvis' biggest fans, so a reader could predict that it would be a positive article with no negative comments about Elvis to try and sell itself to the teenage readers. The headline of the article "Presley hot as a $1 pistol" shows that Elvis is really popular, and many people want to buy his records. It continues to say "Presley has six hit singles" which tells the reader that he must have been very successful as he was only signed up in 1955, and the article was written less than a year later in March 1956. This makes clear to the reader that Elvis has had quite a dramatic rise to stardom as it shows he has become a famous icon in a very short space of time. Even if people were not fans of Elvis and so did not buy his music, they would still hear his songs constantly because his music was so popular. Many people saw him as someone who was sure to succeed so there were positive attitudes towards him from an early stage. Near the end of the article, Elvis is said to be "the label's number two best seller, right behind Perry Cosmo". This demonstrates further how Elvis is almost or just as popular as an already

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The effect of the size of the rock pools on the diversity of animals in the rock pool.

ROCKY SHORES The effect of the size of the rock pools on the diversity of animals in the rock pool Kashaf Iqbal 13 G Introduction I am going to investigate how the size of the rock pools effects the diversity of animals in the rock pools. Rock pools provide a glimpse into the underwater world. Once the "sea's blanket" is taken away, the rock pool is isolated as if it were a small aquarium and its living conditions begin to change. These environments are one of the harshest to be found on the coastline. There are various abiotic factors that affect the diversity of animals in a particular size of rock pools. Oxygen is one of the factors. Animals need oxygen for breathing. Oxygen is absorbed at the surface of the water. Therefore, animals in shallow rock pools would have more chance of getting oxygen than animals in deeper rock pools. This could have effect on the diversity of animals in deeper and shallow rock pools. Also, rock pools with more plants might have higher oxygen content in the day because plants are making oxygen during photosynthesis. 6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2 Temperature is another abiotic factor that affects the diversity of animals in a particular size of a rock pool. During the day, rock pools are heated by the sun and warm up, but during the night they are cooled. When water warms up, it does not pass the warmth downward easily. Therefore,

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