watched television without having an open mind on all the different aspects that go into television making. Now every time I watch television, my mind is aware of all the different aspects. Some of the aspects that I analyze while watching television are the polysemy, structure and visual sound and style of a program. The non-narrative program that I viewed on my television is Beyond Scared Straight, season 9 episode 9, which airs on the A & E channel. The original airdate and time is August 20th, 2015
for an older movie I enjoyed it. The movie Citizen Kane is recorded as one of the greatest movies produced of all times. The movie was co-written, produced, directed and edited by George Orson Welles. He was noted for having a very interesting personal life, perhaps just as good as the movie itself. In 1998, the American Film Institute named Citizen Kane at the top of its 100 best films. It was because of the many unconventional techniques which were innovated or reintroduced by Welles during
Beyond this general idea of progress, the narrative of oil is also associated with individual success and is overall seen as a savior that can perform miracles for humanity. However, it also is the cause of some social and environmental injustice. An other narrative that is also frequently assumed to be a universal-solution to peoples’ struggles is the narrative of religion. In Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie drama There Will Be Blood, those two narratives are depicted as opposing forces and are
Bryan Gagnon Dynamic Visual Storytelling 11-26-14 Term Paper In August of this year I wrote a reflection paper on my favorite film The Usual Suspects directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. I chose this film for its “wonderful story, surprising twists, fascinating characters and great acting performances. At the time I wrote that paper, I had little if any knowledge of the storytelling tools. I just knew that as an audience member I appreciated the film for its fine craftsmanship
sociological tract." This film would be the last time he used directly autobiographical material and a screenplay, which reflected his own experiences. On Mean Streets itself, Scorsese says, “…It was like an allegory for what was happening to me trying to make movies. …I drew from personal experiences about a guy trying to make it.” Described by many critics as a Film Noir, however “it’s a loose, roughed up and intimate affair that owes more to the improvised narrative structure and raw,
Introduction Michael Haneke’s film Caché/Hidden (2005) has provoked endless debates since the first day when it came out in 2005. The audiences leave the theatre jolted and subsequently keep thinking for days due to its ambiguous narrative construction (Cousins, 2007). Based on the surface reading of the plot, it is a thriller contains a mixture of domestic contradictions, amnesia and the mistrust between middle class and lower class. A French bourgeois family living in the cosy suburb of Paris
are two disparate novels written in styles of the same kindred. The former is written through the eyes of Nick, an Ivy League graduate looking to work as a stockbroker in the heart of New York. The latter, also written as a first-person narrative, is a personal account of the author himself as he describes his experiences in the Vietnam War. Both writers show literary prestige throughout their works and effectively convey their themes, although very differently, through the use of tone, diction
Contrary to critics’ belief of characters being “superficial caricatures”, these characters represent the suffering and and anger of the french youth through spectacle. Most of their characters are passive-aggressive in nature (Gorodish, Nikita or Léon for example), break boundaries, are indifferent and independent, refuse to enter social norms, establish alternative systems and cultures (e.g. le métro in Subway). At the same time, the rest of society representing social order, are portrayed in this
little to the imagination. Director George Sluizer’s Dutch-French co-production of The Vanishing (1988) is an exception to this. Sluizer is in fact able to construct genuine suspense without showing any violence or bloodshed and delivers a sleek narrative that reveals evil so plainly it compels you to fear the ordinary and everyday. Based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg, The Vanishing follows the
The unusual and reverse narrative film, Memento, is structured in a unique way that interprets how the audience and the main character can think alike. The film is shown in a reverse chronological order starting from the last event to ending as how the first event came to happen. Although this structure can be somewhat confusing to the audience, one can relate to the main character, Leonard Shelby’s, “condition”. After a particular incident involving two murderers and the killing of his wife, Leonard