Witness by Peter Weir Notes

The social constructionism of the Amish community is one that passes quick judgment. The judgments might include the Amish having a simple life. The thought that the members are forced into the religion. That they lose out from choosing not to fully utilize electricity. That they must all dress the same. Regardless of how people view them, there needs to be further examination of their culture, before a socially constructed perspective of their community is made. This examination is important to sociology due to the ever-growing population of Amish people within North America. The mass major of Amish use to live in Europe today there are no Amish people left in the country. Although, in North America, there are over 250,000 Amish people, most of which live in either Pennsylvania or Ohio (Yonke, 2010, p. 1). Never the less, they are still true to their roots and still speak German,

Bulman explains, “I analyze these films as data, as cultural artifacts, to see what patterns and trends they reveal…I intend to gain access to certain aspects of American society through the myths that Americans tell to them in the movies (12).”Therefore, this shows how the division of social groups and economic inequality plays a role in our perception of American society. Bulman introduces his topics of different social school by separating each and dismembering them WORK ON INTR

looks at how the director choose to introduce the situation the characters face, the conflict that happens and the resolution of the story.

The Amish people try to avoid bringing attention to themselves, and are extremely cautious with the dangers of arrogance and self-worth. Tourism among the communities has increased and threatens the humble values that the people hold close to their culture. Non-Amish people are just so fascinated in the plain apparel they wear and the manner in which they interact with each other. Furthermore, the Amish people are just viewed as an attraction for people and the privacy of the community is not respected. Tourists flood the Amish communities in the hopes to catch a brief glimpse of the families working or children playing. In addition to the invasion of personal privacy, the increase in tourism opens their children to the materialistic mainstream of outside society. If the children get a glimpse of how the outside world interacts they may not want to stay and become baptized, making the future Amish

This movie is a great example of social groups, leadership, culture, norms, society, nature and nurture, and social lives. This movie represents how the American culture chooses our social class in society. Some sociologists believed that lifestyle choices are an important influence on our social class position (Giddens, 209). Our class position is the way we dress, where we eat, where we sleep, and how we relax (Giddens,

Analyse how verbal and visual features of a text you have studied are used to give audiences a strong idea.

After completing your movie analysis, you will reflect on the analysis process and how you have learned to more thoroughly analyze film as well as how rigorous study of film enhances your development as a student and thinker. In this 300- to 600-word reflection, review your initial post from the “Post Your Introduction” discussion in Week One, and consider how your ability to analyze movies has changed or grown. Append your reflection to the analysis portion of your paper. Your reflection should be personal and exploratory in

Literary suspense techniques used by the film maker is foreshadowing and imagery. Foreshadowing is used in the film through the use of fast pace music in combination

We can refer to the documentary “The man who saw too much” as a primary way to seek a better understanding of what this culture has hidden within its scars. The documentary which was Directed

Cultural and psychological concerns is apparent through the use of characterization. Isolation/Alienation in the suburban life plays a big role in both the films

The review of this movie is based on sociological matters that are outshined in the film and touch on the lives of the individuals, their way of living, morals, behavior and cultural aspects. The film is set in a real society and concentrating much on social issues of the society more than the economic, technological and political status of this society based in New York.

Editing is an important stylistic element because it affects the overall rhythm or pace of the film. The most obvious element of editorial style is the length of the average shot in the film. Generally the longer the time between cuts, the slower the pace of the film (Ch. 11 Pg. 318). Editing is part of the post production process which includes titling, color correction, sound mixing, etc. This process of editing includes rearranging, adding or removing video or audio clips, or transitions between clips. The editing in a movie gives the power to choose what the viewer sees and how the viewer sees it at any given moment (Ch. 1 Pg. 5). You can do this through camera angles, the grain of the shot, and once again, transitions.

As a student studying Intercultural Communications, films can be a great resource. Often showing interaction between people from different cultures, the advantage of films is that they can highlight, focus, entertain and inspire us in ways that help us become more thoughtful about the people and cultures that we encounter. (Quast, B.) This is a film analysis of the cultural clashes and communication challenges that exists due to cultural differences between the mothers and their daughters.

Editing manipulates the audience’s point of view of the story. Different cuts can delineate the plot and the meaning of the images distinctively. Battleship Potemkin, directed by Sergei Eisenstein was the example of how editing created emotions to the viewers in the theatre. The editing made the sequence into a lesson of how the Soviet Union authority was pressuring the public with complete dominance of violence.

In Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when Gandalf arrives in the shire the action follows his horse drawn cart, camera angles are switched to follow the movement of the cart but the editing is done so that it is ‘silent’ and almost inconspicuous. The latter technique used to maintain temporal continuity is diegetic sound, a device referring to a sound that has been viewed within the story world. It can include off-screen sounds but it always takes place in the narrative domain. Whenever Legolas draws his bow and loosens an arrow we hear a zip for the sound of the arrow leaving the bow and a thump when it meets its target, this is an example of diegetic sound in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.