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    How Is Sound Used In Film

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    Sound has been used in films since the silent era to denote the change in mood and develop characters actions through piano soundtracks played through the film. Better sound systems have developed with time allowing for the use of actors’ voices and special sound effects. This has led to better diegetic a¬¬nd non-diegetic effects. Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Darjeeling Limited are films directed by Wes Anderson released in 2009 and 2007 respectively. As shown below sound techniques were used to develop

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    Who Is Rachel Carson?

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    developing new synthetic pesticides that were being used in high amounts throughout the United States in order to fight unwanted insects and plants, this use was recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She was inspired to begin her new book, Silent Spring, because of a letter written by Olga Owens Huckins, a former writer for the Boston Post. She and her husband owned property in Duxbury, Massachusetts and they had made into a private bird sanctuary. Disregarding the fact that the use of these

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    Rachel Carlson and his book Silent Springs perefectly demonstrate it. Pesticides, which are used popularly now, are not all good. It does kill some harmful bugs, but it also kills some bugs that are beneficial to the crops. Rachel Carlson, an environmental activist, wrote a book called Silent Springs, in which it talks about the real harmful effects of pesticides, especially DDT, a very widely used pesticide

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    stylistically,” in his book (O’Brien 5). This shows that while synchronized sound improved narration it was responsible for steering the film business towards an industry characterized by a mass influx of synchronized-sound films and the extinction of silent films. From around 1927 to 1930 synchronized sound swept the

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    Charlie Chaplin directed and starred in his legendary film, City Lights. This film was released in 1931, three years after the release of the first film that included audible dialogue, however, the lack of dialogue did not get in Chaplin's way as he produced one of the most well known American comedies. A little over four decades later, another great comedy was produced by the famous comedy group Monty Pythons, which consisted of five British men, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones

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    Who Is Citizen Kane?

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    “The innovation and diffusion phases of transformation took place between 1926 and 1930. Seemingly overnight the silent film era ended; by 1930 Hollywood switched completely to talkies. In 1925 silent filmmaking was the standard; a mere five years later Hollywood produced only films with sound….Within nine months, formerly perplexing technical problems were resolved, marketing and distribution strategies were reworked, soundproof studios were constructed, and 15,000 theaters were wired for sound

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    The Silent Generation have a much higher chance of preferring a Strong, Silent type character. A Procedurally Generated Dungeon Crawler game would best suit this generation. Most of these types of games don’t really require a heavily voiced Protagonist, due to the fact that more often than not your Player Character is completely isolated. Procedural Generation would add plenty of replay value to the game, as the randomly generated dungeons would never repeat (or would at least have very low odds

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    Hitchcock Synthesis

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    as an amusement. However, the majority of these people only criticize what they do not understand, in this situation it is the fear of technological advancement in film. In statements made by Alfred Hitchcock to François Truffaut, he claims “that silent film was the

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    In movie The Immigrant directed by Charlie Chaplin he was Director and actor and was basically splendid he is genius from cinematographic industry. In this film, Charlie is acting like a boat and shaking from side to side and that he is sliding precisely when the boat begins to shake. Actuality, the boat is not shaking by any means. The camera that Charlie is utilizing is just on a rotate tilting from side to side. To demonstrate that Charlie is sliding, he needed to move the other way of the camera

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    influential male writers to take on the task of informing the general public of the hazards of pesticides. Carson encountered many challenges and roadblocks that climate scientists face today. Nonetheless, she took the challenge and wrote the book Silent Spring and expressed the risks and threats of pesticides in the food chain and the natural environment in hopes of making the general public and government aware of these dangers. The similarities with today’s attack on climate science are remarkable

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