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Brian Hu, the “Asian Film” & the Supernatural. “Fuck this shit. See you next year Cannes. Out”. Is a bold twitter quote from the very famous Brian Hu which gave a lecture at CSU San Marcos film class October 20th 2015. He is the artistic director of Pacific Arts Movement and of the San Diego Asian Film Foundation who received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. His lecture presented grave insight into National cultural specifics but emphasized mostly on China and Hong Kong. He also broke

it may not be what they want the viewer to see. In most forms of media today there is a main point that the viewer is observing. 2-D perspective video creators are able to change perspectives of how the viewer sees the media, but with 360 degrees the viewer may not see it in the same way the original creator intended. The viewer may even miss main points entirely because they were looking around and the main point of a video was behind them. On top of this the viewer may not even be able to watch

Cauldron of Story: From Rapunzel to Tangled The Cauldron of Story is, in simplistic terms, a metaphor used to symbolise the interconnection of all story. The concept is that every myth, fairy-tale and fantasy ever told is both contained in and drawn from the Cauldron. Therefore, all story created is a combination of the framework and themes of previously told tales, which have then been flavoured and adapted by the new teller. The tellers borrow the parts they want, then they sculpt and shape them

face. The Follow (2001) quoted by BMW films. BMW took place along the major film studios with the production of short films that can unite the talents of several fields of various high effort crossed. Wong Kar Wai is not denying the author a cinema feature and a mystical, which stands apart from many mainstream Hong

ghosts. The Sixth Sense was a huge success for a director who had not been marked as one of particular importance. M. Night Shyamalan had previously only directed short films, but had started to come into the mainstream with his second feature length film Wide Awake. The Sixth Sense had a huge box office success all over the world and after being nominated for 6 Academy Awards, it won two - Best Supporting Actor (Haley Joel Osment) and Best Screenplay. This film is another

My friend has been getting really into drugs lately and I am very worried about her and feel as if we are drifting apart and aren’t as close as we used to be. Angela, 17 Hey Angela thank you for writing to me, sorry to hear this. It’s good that you care about your friend. I’ve had friends in my life that have gone through the same thing and it’s a really hard thing to watch but there’s a couple things you can do. There are many ways to overcome this

The animated and non-animated versions of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas can be compared to view the similarities and differences of both films. The animated movie was produced in the 1960’s and is approximately thirty minutes long, while the non-animated movie was produced in the 2000’s and is around an hour and a half long. They both star the Grinch, an angry man that hates Christmas. Because of his hate for the holiday season, the Grinch plans to dress as Santa Claus and steal all of

Film Review: Bhaji on the Beach Introduction Bhaji is an Indian snack food whose identity has been "Westernized" in the British Isles. Director Gurinder Chadha has chosen bhaji as a metaphor for the lives of the women in this, her first feature film. Although Indian by birth, the characters, especially those of the younger generation, has been in large part, shaped by the culture of England, the country in which they live. Bhaji on the Beach not only examines this cross-cultural conflict, but

Rhetorical Analysis of ‘Babies’ I.  Social Context & Topic:  Every work exists within a social and cultural framework.  Analyze the contemporary social elements that this work is reacting to.  Explain the topic and the contemporary issues surrounding your product. Babies is a Documentary produced by Thomas Balmes who originally got the idea from Alain Chabat. It is set in the present time in four different countries and four very different settings. These babies are documented from birth to

to measure the driver’s alertness is to track his/her eyes in the given image sequence. Eye detection is an active research area in computer vision. Applications can range from face detection to biometrics. Canthus (Eye corners) is a very stable feature that can be constantly detected from a facial image irrespective of the eye status or gaze direction. Canthus is initially defined and treated as a corner (interest point). Interest point detectors like Harris and SUSAN are being studied and discussed