Film Analysis: Signs From The Unknown

“Miss Representation” is a film released in January 2011, which shows the various ways the media represent women. In the short trailer it starts by showing quotes, various statistics, and input of various influential women, on how women are misrepresented in our society. Some statistics include on how women are vastly outnumbered by men in leading positions in the workplace and in government. It also claims that the media only uses women’s sexualized image for money, not because it is what consumers want to see in advertisements. For example, in a video explaining oversexualizing in young children Geena Davis comments, “…in G-rated animated films the female characters wear the same amount of sexually revealing

The Frontline film Separate and Unequal discussed about creating a new school system; however, there are opposition by others who wants to maintain the current school system. If we look at the perspectives of the two groups, it is understandable in why there is support and opposition from the people of the city. The supporters of the new system wants a system that can provide better opportunities for their children without any violence. As the film claimed “the school was not teaching and were only babysitting the children”, which was likely a reason why there was a need for a new school system. With the chaotic and uncontrollable situation in the current system, many supporters have push forward the idea of a new system in a new city. From

I was still in elementary school when hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana so I do not remember much except for the fact that my mother woke up my sister and I at four o’clock in the morning to head to my uncle’s house in northern Texas. My mother got scared and decided to leave at the last minute. I remember on our drive there, the thunder and lightning was horrible and it was raining really bad. Besides remembering these few details on my own, I have only heard stories and was taught about Katrina in school. Watching Trouble the Water was very eye opening in the aspects of how some of the people in the ninth ward of New Orleans experienced hurricane Katrina. Although this documentary focused solely on the impact of the ninth ward, there were still

Dear Zachery is a documentary directed by Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne documentary genre is crime and drama.Kuennes main purpose of making this documentary was to show the effect of his friend Andrew Bagby and his son's death had on family and friends.

According to the text, education is defined as the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure (Kendall, p. 462). Every human has a right to an education. Despite this definition, evidence of inequality based on race, class, and gender can be seen in the system despite good intentions to promote awareness of and appreciation for cultural differences.

The first discussion video and Barry Schwartz believe if you limit choices, people will tend to make a better decision while being happy with the choices they have made. However, Malcom Gladwell has an opposite view, since he believes if you give people choices and varieties to choose from, they will select the reasonable choices based on their standard that will be beneficial to them.

In this short film “The Harvest”, I felt that the message was resocialization. While migrants travel daily to find work in which most migrants do not a solid home. They are forced to find the new “normal” for themselves and their families. They end up in small homes that are called travel homes, or a “rest stop” and sleep in an unfamiliar bed and eat dinner with unfamiliar people. They travel from state to state trying to find work according to what crop needs picked at that moment. The only thing that I noticed while watching “The Harvest” was that they all stuck together through religion. Even while in the fields working with strangers or before

A Class Divide, a video filmed 14 years after the murder of a historical figure and leader, a group of former classmates coming together with their families to join their former 3rd grade teach, Ms. Jane Elliott, to re-watch the day that she decided to show them all, first-hand, what discrimination was and what is did to people. The lesson was taught in the days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. The video they watch will show Ms. Elliott splitting her classroom into two groups, brown eyes and blue eyes. On the first day of their lesson the blue eyes were given the upper hand. They were praised for the things they did and they were given special privileges. The brown eyed children were not given these privileges

Movies that typically focus on sports have something to do with the way how an athlete builds up better strategies to become “the best player” in the team. Therefore, when we talk about sports psychology, it is the psychology that influences sports, athletic performance, and physical activity. A movie in particular, which is called “The Blind Side”, was directed by John Lee Hancock in 2009 and is based on the true story of the offensive left tackle Michael Oher. From watching the movie, there are intervention strategies (such as self-talk and imagery) found throughout the course of the film, and those tie in with the topic of sports psychology. Inter- vention strategies help the athlete do their best to succeed, and this is exactly what Michael

“A place at the table” is a visually dynamic documentary highlighting the implications of food development and nutrition quality of the American People and the specific ways the congressional agenda has facilitated the continuance of American poverty (Silverbush & Jacobson, 2013). The documentary begins with young fifth-grade girl, Rosie, from Colbrant Colorado, who suffers often from hunger pangs. A tone that motivates the purpose for this documentary.

In Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan the Shyamalan’s message is that, in times of struggle family is the most important relation to have in life and should be valued and held together no matter what. This message is mirrored by the families fight for reconnection at the death of mother, Colleen and the sudden rise and attack of extraterrestrials. Also, Graham the father of Bo and Morgan, begins to see many signs of his families miraculous Gifts- for lack of a better words- given to them by God. In the movie the direction strategically shows the family together all of the time however has such a broken relationship that only a catastrophic event, such as the alien invasion, can mentally and emotionally bring the family back together.

Furthermore,in the film, Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur took a different tactic than other filmmakers. Jimmy (Dickie Moore) who is a deaf and mute kid plays a sneaky sidekick of the anti-hero Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) in Jacques’s dark, gloomy film noir. A film noir is a dark movie, with a gloomy setting where a hero goes on a shadowy journey (Dictionary). In addition, Jimmy leaves the audience in surprise as to how well he performs his protective role regardless of his disability. In this film, his disability aids as an advantage. The filmmakers create this story line for an attraction for the audience due to the attachment formed by the viewers and Jimmy. Jimmy provides viewers with emotional appeal, proving that a disabled boy can

However, conventions of comedy film changed by the year 1963, when Stanley Kramer came out with It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. This film in particular is most definitely an epic comedy film chock-full of action and wild misadventures. The plot revolves around the pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by quite a diverse group of strangers who compete throughout the entire story to locate this stolen fortune. More specifically, near the beginning of the film, six passerby motorists initially put up a good united front against police officers, yet fail to fairly divide the potential loot due to their own greed.

Ever since I could remember, I have been interesting in films and film memorabilia. It didn’t even have to be like legit props that were used on set of the films either, tie in products tickled my itch also. I vividly remember in 2007, having my mom drive me an hour away just so that I could get my hands on a box of Krusty-O’s that were a 7-11 exclusive cereal to promote The Simpsons Movie. I still have the box sitting on my shelf of important trinkets in my room, next to my Burger King exclusive glass goblets issued in 2001 for LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring, and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Popcorn cartons that were sold at Blockbuster in 2008. I leave no rock unturned.

Julie Bogart describes characterization as being a shared entity between books and Movies. Julie also affirmed that visual element and the surrounding of the setting are also a part of the character’s identity. The weakness in Julie’s theory of characterization is less than the strengths where she describes the natural degrees of depiction in a movie setting. In Julie’s tutorial Characterization in Books and Movies, she indicates that characterization is the obvious viewpoint of the film. The perception of the movie depends upon illustrative props such as historical elements, like pictures and furnisher which translate to be a mise-en-scène technique. To clarify the understanding of Julie’s concept of characterization, it is acknowledged that in order to create a character the writer will need to know the character in order to represent the character. Elements such as costumes, make-up, and hair style provide the character with a physical identity, where the historical setting depicts the background and reflects the generation and/or era, thus giving the characters a social personality. Julie Bogart associates characterization with the plot in the movies, where an individual can be his or her own rival. The storyline reflects more of the personality of the character, linking this to the outcome of the movie. In conclusion, it had been established that Julie Bogart’s theory of characterization holds more stability than debility.