Halloween Essay

The first thing that needed to be established in the process of making this skit was deciding what story we wanted to create. Taylor Eickhoff coined the idea of a “scary camping story”. From there, the group went in the direction of a comedy, poking fun at the clichés found in typical scary movies. We employed a heavy use of stereotypes in our characters through their names lines, costumes, and mannerisms. This was done not only to quickly introduce and establish the characters in a short period

By the end of April, the Samo Duck Project will have added three colorful new ducks to Norman’s landscape, thanks to the project funded by the Norman Arts Council and their recent announcement. In 2010, Douglas Elder a member of the Norman Public Arts Board and Director of the Firehouse Art Center proposed his idea for the four-foot fiberglass duck that would foster community-based social interactions about art and awareness towards the art in children’s environments. “I sculpted a maquette and

The book World War Z by Max Brooks is a phenomenal work and I enjoyed it very much. The genre of this book is most likely categorized as a horror like fiction. The director of World War Z the movie, is director Marc Foster. The title for the book and movie were exactly the same. The setting for World War Z changes constantly due to the main character traveling a lot. In the book there are chapters that take place in South Africa, Russia, China, the Caribbean, France, America, and Great Britain. Therefore

Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element

Written by Ransom Riggs, a film graduate with an obsession with vintage photographs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children conveys the message that one needs courage and faith in oneself to face this brutal world through Riggs’s peculiar photographs and his emotive language. As a child, Ransom Riggs was often taken to swap meets and secondhand shops by his grandmother. “It was pretty torturous for a 11- or 12- year old boy,” Mr. Riggs said, “but I would find these boxes of snapshots.” As a

For my Social Norm Project I decided to go to a scary movie at AMC. My friend and I went to the scary movie called Crimson Peak when the movie theater was busy. The reason I decided to go when it was busy and picked a scary movie is because I wanted to laugh instead of scream at the scary parts to see what people would do. It is socially normal to scream when you are afraid, but laughing is normally not a reaction someone would expect. To do the experiment we sat in the middle of the theater so we

In 2001 as a young kid I watched a movie called Jeepers Creepers. The story of a demon coming out of hibernation to murder people was terrifying. Scenes from the movie had a large amount of gore and graphic deaths of the characters that it made you have fear of this creature. His presence was always introduced by his famous theme sound named after the movie title. It’s jazzy swing melody and demonic tone prequeled to terrible events to take place to characters. Victor Salva had a brilliant projection

"A Christmas Carol" 2015 presented by Mc Media Works Event Recap Atlanta, GA, December 17, 2015-- As we bring in the 2015 Christmas Holiday, many will be with out, but Mc Media Works continues to do their part by hosting their annual toy drive where patrons bring a toy in exchange for some smooth holiday rhythmic music sung by Atlanta's Top emerging artist. This years event was held at the New posh Elleven 45 lounge Located in the heart of Buckhead, where it gained lots of traction from socialites

Dia de Los Muertos, also known as the Day of the Dead, is an internationally recognized Mexican holiday which consists of the gatherings of friends and family to honor those who have passed. Similar rituals commemorating those who have deceased are believed to have began around 3,000 years ago. Dia de Los Muertos takes place three days from October 31st to November 2nd. October 31st is known as All Hallows Eve and is a time when the children invite the spirits of deceased children to come back

Hi Loc, I agree with you that genre films do reflect reality. If the films do not have any emotional connections with the audiences, it could be difficult to understand specific characters or situations in the movies. I like how you brought up horror movies as an example and agree that horror movies would be based on the real scared moments from the real life. I understand that many parts of the teen movies are exaggerated, but people feel it could happen in reality because many of the stories actually