Edison vs. Tesla Electric Boogaloo
In the movie industry, historical drama films are always a big topic. There have been many movies written on history, such as Titanic, Braveheart and Argo, each capturing an important, war, breakthrough, conflict or invention. The newest historical drama The Current War fits these molds. In the latest historical drama, The Current War, a movie exploring the invention of Thomas Edison’s light bulb and direct current, along with the competition between Edison and Westinghouse over the new type of power. The trailer for the upcoming historical drama film The Current War is successful in capturing the audience’s interest by the way it uses color to establish the effects of the invention in the film and by
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In Figure 3, the editor increases the tension by doing a frame by frame shot of Edison’s electric grind board, adding the effect that Edison is serious and ready to power the country. Overall, the editor uses dark to light lighting effects to establish the importance of Edison’s invention, to the conflict with Westinghouse over who should control the power, and to show the seriousness of the historical conflict.
The music throughout the trailer emphasizes conflict. In the opening 25 seconds, there is no music or background sounds, only the use of light and dialogue. A deep synthesizer beat occurs after Edison is introduced as “The Inventor.” This goes on for 30 seconds as the trailer gets setup, characters are introduced but no conflict has yet been given. This beat captures the viewer's interest, building suspense having the viewers wonder what conflict is coming and what is the main story for the film. The beat picks up as the conflict between Edison and Westinghouse for the next 20 seconds until Westinghouse is asked by a child if he is rich, in which he responds “At the moment” and the beat disappears suddenly, into a fast paced war snare drum beat with an orchestral string instrumental behind it. This adds to the tension and risk that both the inventor and businessman are taking to beat the other. The viewer is grabbed by the sound of the snare as the tension rises and the
Lighting and sound are another two key factors that can be manipulated to heighten the dramatic value of the scene. With the opening of the first sequence, the musical motif that accompanies Abigail throughout the film begins to play as she is introduced. It follows her emotions, the tempo increasing as she hurries to ready herself and creep out of the house. As the forest comes into view, the eerie surroundings are complemented by the change in music.
This manipulates the audience because they know something is going to happen, but do not know exactly what. Music is also used to manipulate the audience during the trailer. Bernard Herrman composes the main theme music used in Psycho. This music is very sinister,
This is Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison is a famous inventor who invented lots of things that we use today. He was born a very long time ago in the United States of America.
The music throughout the film plays a big role in the way it is perceived and the overall tone and message. The directors and producers used background noise and music very wisely in order to convey the emotions of a scene. In the movie, it reaches a certain point where it almost looks as though things are looking up for education. It is when the documentary starts describing the “new acting chancellor of the district of columbia schools”, during this scene the makers want you to really pay attention and become almost shocked by this turn of events. However, they do not only grab your attention by the words and clips shown, but also by the loud, upbeat music that is suddenly played while she is being announced. Also, later in the movie they use this same
In my trailer I will use subtle atonal music which will creep into a crescendo as tension rises, ending in a piano crash as the climax arrives, after this high-octane percussion based music will play to emphasise the action of the trailer, this will be jarring to the audience as they had just been pulled out of a state of unease into a state of blood-pumping fear. This will leave a major impact on the audience, greatly increasing the chances of the viewers paying to see the full movie in
Motion pictures began to move from being seen as a fad to an accepted method of documenting historical events—even though some films depicting events from the war were actually re-enactments.”
‘Sound doesn’t have to be in-your-face, traditional, big sound effects. You can especially say a lot about the film with ambiences – the sounds for things you don’t see.’ (Bordwell, 2008) The music throughout this film adds to the ambience of the story, and follows the conventions of a family fantasy
As upper-level management it is important to understand the key components of cost-volume-profit analysis. Identifying objectives including concepts related to CVP is crucial to the absorption of information.
The car market has been ran by companies such as Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford, BMW, and many other companies, but one of the newer, up and coming companies in this market is Tesla Motors Inc. Tesla has been around for a little over 10 years, and have come quite a long way from where they began. Tesla now sells luxury electric vehicles different than any other electric vehicles today, and they have big plans for expansion in the future. Tesla may not be one of the biggest car companies today, but one day they will be considered alongside companies such as Toyota and Ford.
Imagine a world with a power-plant every two miles, a massive amount of wiring and overall more expensive power. This was the world that Thomas Edison envisioned for the world when he wanted to introduce Direct Current into the United States, but many knew this was an inferior system in comparison to Alternating Current. Nikola Tesla was the man who made AC power possible in the United States, and efficient power possible. Nikola Tesla indeed changed the world with his influence as an inventor and discoveries in the field of electricity. Tesla indeed changed the world through his inventions and was also an extremely interesting human being.
The nineteenth and twentieth century was a time of enormous prosperity and vast immigration for the United States. These two have a close correlation to each other; the U.S.’s prosperity was mostly as a result from the few ingenious immigrants that fled their home country for a better life in the U.S. Andrew Carnegie and Albert Einstein are a few examples, but none can compare to one man, one man that would change the way the whole world would view the power of electricity.
According to a variety of sources, Thomas Edison was the one who developed the first practical incandescent light bulb. Edison was the first to invent the electric light bulb that lasted longer. He made having light cheaper, convenient and safe. it shows the impact of Thomas Edison’s invention to the world. Many people can’t live without the lightbulb and benefits everyone every day. Even today, everywhere a person goes, there is a light bulb. Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed; I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” (Anderson 2) He believed that even though something doesn’t work out as planned doesn’t mean it’s right to just give up. He also thought that one should be persistent and shouldn’t quit easily. This invention was a challenge for him, but he didn’t give up. Instead, he put time and effort into this project. His determination is one of the reasons of Thomas Edison’s success because it made him work harder for his goal. The fact that Edison never gave up on the light bulb showed the hard work he put into everything he does. By Spring 1883, more than three hundred electric plants all over the world, the first electric power station being in New York, which powered over four hundred incandescent lamps. (Hoar 4) Edison was able to plant power stations all over the world to spread light throughout the world. This fact relates back to the light bulb being one of the most important moments because it shows the impact of Edison’s invention and what he and accomplished with
The music interacts with dialogue in the film; the techno beat is, at times, accompanied by vocals, which correspond with not only what is happening in the scene, but also the internal diegetic dialogue—another important motif.
At the start of the trailer, the background soundtrack is very calm and soothing, but as the minutes of the trailer increase, the build up of tension and quickness in the soundtrack increases too, loud instruments and sharpness of the sound are formed and the instruments are all played at the same time near to the end of the trailer where the upsetting ending happens, the instrument and sound techniques create tension and the build up of suspense synchronizing with the ending of the trailer, also the suspense wants to match the feelings an individual would have when getting closer to knowing what happens in the end. ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ transforms from a novel into a movie. The speed of the trailer decreases towards the
I decided to do my report on Thomas Alva Edison because he brought a lot of things into our world. He invented the light bulb, the alkaline battery, the phonograph, and many other things. Many of our modern electronics origins came from Thomas A. Edison. I thought he was very interesting. That is why I chose him.