Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term reggae is more carried out and stand as a symbol for a music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is the Jamaican music that evolved from ska and rocksteady developing into a huge musical force. Reggae is based on rhythmic style characterized by regular beats on the off beat know as the skank. In 1960 musicians turned the beats around placing the emphasis on the second an...
The film I have specifically chosen for my micro-features analysis essay is Sam Mendes's Academy Award winning motion picture American Beauty winning numerous Oscars and praise from critics. The narrative follows the miserable and mundane lives of the Burnham family consisting of Lester, a middle aged man who is facing a severe mid-life crisis and is extremely depressed, married to Carolyn who is an independent business women and housewife and their naive daughter Jane. The films promotional ...
Kasimir Malevich Is considered as largest avant-garde artist in Russia. He is a founder of suprematism - direction in the abstract art. Despite the fame he is still one of the most enigmatic and unexplored artist. Malevich is a great figure in the Russian art as well as in European art movement of the early 20th century, he is the most important pioneer of geometric abstract art. Lots of people compare his paintings to those of Wassily Kandisky, but they have great originality in their own ri...
I was a little girl the first time I heard The Eagles, my mother used to play their record album while she cleaned our house. I would pretend to be part of the band as I sang along to their songs. I never thought much about whom they were or what their music would mean to the music industry, all I knew is that I liked them. As I grew up, I developed a music preference of my own, one that did not actively include listening to the Eagles, although every time I heard The Eagles on a radio statio...
In studying of dance influences and its history in the movie "White Nights", dance has developed over the years over passion and desires of every individual who enjoys dance. Through the protagonists of "White Nights"- Mikhail Baryshnikov (Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko) and Gregory Hines (Raymond Greenwood), they conveyed the underline story of the opposition between the two nations of the Cold War, Russia and the United States of America, and also the many emotions evoked in probably many dancer...
Coach Carter is a 2005 film directed by Thomas Carter. It is based on a true story, after the Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter portrayed by (Samuel L. Jackson) made headlines in for benching his undefeated team the Richmond Oilers due to poor academic results. In this essay I will be explaining how the film Coach Carter presents one or more key characters in a positive light. Many of the characters are seen in a negative light at the beginning of the film however as the film p...
Grant Wood is easily one of America's most famous artists due to his iconic 1930 work American Gothic. Even today, while some people may not always remember Grant Wood's name or even the title of the image, they most certainly always recognize American Gothic when they see it. This one painting is known worldwide as kind of an iconic show of American character, all represented by a farmer and his daughter in front of their carpenter gothic styled home. The painting itself may at first glance ...
The visual effects performed in various film noirs was not to give the viewer the perception of an ordinary setting, but to provide a visual manifestation of terror and abnormality into human emotion through twisted plots and camera techniques. The plot is twisted and complex, taking the viewer into dark, terrorizing, and incomprehensible place. The camera techniques used in the visuals seen in Murder My Sweet instills these feelings, which are common in horror films. Art cannot be rushed and...
The film I will be analysing is called jaws. Jaw's was made in 1975 and it was directed by Steven Spielberg. The synopsis of the film is about a hungry shark that comes to feast on the quiet island of Amity. The film is mostly set in Amity Island on the beach. The three main characters are Chief Brodie, Hooper (Marine Biologist) and Sam Quint. Jaws was set on 4th of July because it is the independence day so people come to have a break and what possibly could go wrong on 4th of July. Music Th...
The main character in the film that has been used in the film under a positive light is Coach Ken Carter who is the main character of the plotline. By this I use technical codes to prove the this theory. Technical codes are used in the film "Coach Carter" to present the Protagonist "Coach Carter" in a positive light. Technical codes are split into sub-sections of Lighting and Dialogue. Each having there different perspective on how the character is seen in this particular way with each also h...
