I Don T Do Sadness Play Analysis

In the article, “From Degrading to De-Grading”, by Alfie Kohn he discusses the harmful effects grades have on students. Kohn argues that there are better ways to assess students’ progress other than letter or numerical grades. Grades are a great concept but they tend to be more hurtful than helpful. Cheating can become a problem, students won’t take challenges, and they develop unhealthy competition between one another. There have been many studies conducted over the years that support Kohn’s argument.

Along with background music, sound effects play more of a role on the way we feel than many moviegoers think, and "although the function of sound effects is primarily atmospheric, they can also be precise sources of meaning in film" (Giannetti, 225). When the

mind and severed him from the reality of the real life he was living with his family in the small

The third act was lovely Eli Womble. He is not only a music major, but also on the soccer team. He was not alone and with him on stage were his very good friends. Firstly, he gave a shout out to his mother and girlfriend who sat on the front row. They played two songs clearly Womble had the most fans in the audience. There were a lot of soccer players in the audience who sung along with his song and clearly enjoyed their teammate talents. His teammate, Catawba soccer defense player Jared Bieber said, “He just gets better and better every time I hear him play, he is going to be a superstar.”

In these two movies, the right music and visuals had to be chosen in order to get the ambiance Hawke and Branagh tried to obtain. Each director chose different music and images that were very visual and auditive for an audience’s appeal. In Hawke’s version, visuals of New York and Times Square were appealing to an audience. Modern music at the beginning of the film caught the interest of the younger generation. As well, close ups of Hamlet were revealing to an audience and it was easy to feel infatuated by the character’s nihilistic despair. Branagh’s version used supernatural and dark visuals of ghosts, statues, and castles to produce feelings of awe and fear. The scene of the ghost was quick and staggering, and it created an automatic feeling of anxiety and fear. As well, the traditional use of classical music did a skillful job of creating suspense. Both directors appealed to an audience by using music and visuals that created an ambiance the directors desperately

For example, the people filming the movie sometimes had the camera far away, which would then make the lines that the characters said harder to hear. If the camera was too close to a character's face, it was displeasing to look at, like when Johnny was in the hospital. Also, when watching the whole movie, it was hard to concentrate on the actual movie because I was too distracted on the voices to music ratio. Typically in a motion picture, the music is lowered enough so that the lines can be heard, while having it be loud enough for the audience to hear it, and bring the point across that it's an important moment to have that type of music. To give an example, in Ponyboy’s dream, it was very quite, then all of a sudden, extremely loud music and sounds erupted as I struggled to cover my ears, and I couldn’t pay attention to what was happening on screen because of all the piercing noise! Then, when Ponyboy woke up it was all normal volume that barely transitioned. There were a lot of other scenes that did the same exact thing, such as when Johnny went to back to his house and the volume of the parents fighting in the background almost cancelled out the other important lines and music. There are other problems than this particular one, some being no music at some points when it was most likely necessary to get the emotions that the characters were feeling across, or when the characters lines and volume were so quiet that you could barely to not hear them at all, or when the outside wind was so deafening to pay attention to anything else. It was somewhat comical to me every time one of these moments occurred, because it seems the creators didn’t care enough to fix

The first play was performed by the combined choirs which called “You are the new Day” composed by John David. The shorter version of the same song was played at the end of the concert. The shorter version of the song was as the

Ayn Rand gives us a short novel Anthem which shows us a society in which people are too afraid to be themselves. Rand wrote the novel around the base of World War II, during this time the nations had all become narrow-minded in the ways to live. The citizens were being brainwashed into sameness. Rand wanted to show the far-reaching of individuality and how it is more important for your wellbeing than living in the fear of being different. The citizens of Anthem are forced to fit the false beliefs of the worlds council. They are raised in the society to fit the needs of their ways and the things around them. The economy teaches them to do nothing but please the people of power. Rand uses Equality

These vocals become more prevalent in the second part of the film, after Lola failed the first time. We understand from the visuals and Lola’s internal thoughts that she means to succeed.

One would have to say that one of the most notable features of the film would have to be its soundtrack, which incorporates no music but only diegetic sound, from the preliminary noise of the river flowing under the bridge through the even louder sounds of the forthcoming American tanks to the quaking clamors of the ending battle scenes. A prodigious example of sound transpires within the middle of the film. It is when the boys are woken from their cots and called into combat; the sequence features electronically distorted sounds that together equally insinuate the boys’ disorientation as well as the disorientation of the viewers.

These vocals become more prevalent in the second part of the film, after Lola failed the first time. We understand from the visuals and Lola’s internal thoughts that she means to succeed.

was when he finally had completed his change to a whole different person. "Memorizing lyrics left me little time to think about

to be labelled a rebel she must belong to the class of rebels that act

This clearly explains the significance of music and the role that has in motion pictures. Music has to match the emotions that the actors are showing and the environment they are in. If fail to do so, the movie could be a dreadful thing to watch.

The modernist style would have only distracted from the plot line instead of adding to it because of its emphasis on unresolved dissonance disorienting the average listener. The audience expects certain aspects of music to occur. They naturally desire to hear certain forms, harmonic rules and guidelines, or the tonal music their ears are accustomed to hearing. These ideas are still present in some cases, but with the absence of tonality and a larger focus on dissonance, the audience can have trouble devoting attention to the film itself. This causes modernist music to be jarring and distracting from the narrative, but that doesn’t mean it’s always avoided. In plot lines there are often villains who need to make the audience feel uncomfortable. Many times in both Hollywood’s past and present composers will pair the modernist style of dissonance and uneasy expression with that of an antagonist. This proves to be successful in making the viewers feel uneasy (Audissino 2014, 25-35).