The topic of my essay is "Cinematography in the United States of America and in Ukraine". ... While researching the theme of my essay, I have understood that film history includes more than just films. ... Muybredge set up a row of twelve cameras. ... Soon they had designed an elegant little camera. ... Paul, a maker of photographic equipment, made copies of the Edisonn Kinetoscope and was free to sell them to anyone who wanted them because Edison had not patented the Kinetoscope outside the United States. ...

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In Laura Mulvey's essay, she discusses how we as a society must eliminate the modern film process and how this will be the only way we can finally free women from being sexually objectified. Due to heterosexual males behind the camera, we as an audience witness through the male gaze. ... This is easy to do for the male audience because they can relate with the male character in the film as well as with the male behind the camera. ... The pleasure and fascination of looking at the human form as well as the pleasure of being looked at is part of three essays on sexuality written by Sigmu...

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Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. At last, at last, to be free of the past. ... No difference at all," says Orlando as she admires her new female body; then, turning to address the camera, she adds, "Just a different sex." ... Potter's Orlando is finally liberated from the restrictions of gender, property and privilege, and accompanied by a video camera wielding daughter. ... Later, in the sex scene, the camera runs over the "...

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This essay will discuss the different methods of creating of representing stories through pictures and how reliable a picture is at accounting events. ... Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, as it was stated before. ... (Marius De Zayas, in Jonathan Green, Camera Work, A Critical Anthology, New York: Aperture, 1973, p. 267... (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, New York: The Free Press, 1978, p. 167.) ... Suppose you capture that site, with say still photography camera or a video camera. ...

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Write an extended essay discussing how the film makers techniques (technical, symbolic etc) encourage a particularly critical response to gun ownership? America started of, as a free country, in a new continent. ... Technical codes are the use of the camera to persuaded the audience in responding a particular way. Such uses are the camera angles, camera distance, lighting and sound effects. ... Where first there was an extreme close up of an end of a gun pointing at the camera. ...

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Essay on The Technical production of the movie The technical production in the Shawshank Redemption was excellent. ... Truth is, I don't want to know I"d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it cant be expressed in words and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free" Visual effects are also well used in the film. ... When Andy arrives at the prison low camera angles are used well to show the power held by the prison authorities over the prisoners. ...

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The world wide web, a massive collection of free information; good if you'd like to research facts for your next paper; bad if you cut and paste your way through existing papers to create a Frankenstein monster of protected works. There are even web sites dedicated to the cheating masses that are basically enormous databases of essays and papers. ... By allowing its users to make their MP3's available to every other user, Napster can provide an efficient source of free music. ... It is not uncommon for a homeowner to own a scanner, digital camera or photo-editing software. ... As ...

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But most of our rethinking will concern law-how we will balance understandable demands for improved security with our right to privacy, our freedom to travel, our free speech, our policy of welcoming immigrants, and our commitment to a tolerant society. ... Cameras meant to capture, "red-handed" so to speak have also made a few headlines, people who run stop lights. We can expect September 11 to shift the debate about such surveillance, with more citizens preferring the comfort of the cameras instead of the somewhat greater freedom of anonymity. The debates about privacy, free speech, and ...

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The first thing that catches one's eye in the commercial is the quality of film and the camera angles. ... The first view is from a camera that is on the ceiling. It angles down similar to how a security camera would. ... "The masculine role of being in charge is a tough one," declares Diane Barthel in her essay "A Gentleman and a Consumer." ... Instead of being interested in what they are getting for free, they immediately wonder what kind of woman is buying them this gift. ...

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In Wenders" career a feature film often alternates with an essay film. The 1977 feature The American Friend was followed by the 1980 essay Lighting over the Water; the 1982 Hammett by the mixed-genre The State of Things and the essay Reverse Angle in the same year; the 1987 Wings of Desire by Notebooks on Cities and Clothes. ... In post-World War II Germany, Wenders and many others of his generation embraced American culture; it was liberating, freeing many from the burdening legacies of the German past. ... Combining Kracauer's notions of cinema as "a means to redeem the physical world"...

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Wireless phones have introduced many straightforward and trouble-free techniques of communication through a system called text messaging where messages can be passed from one wireless user to another. ... Cell phones simultaneously serve as a compliment for products such as computers, cars, and recently cameras. Information, websites, and pictures can be passed between new cell phones unto computers, palm pilots, or cameras. ... A person is able to walk down the street talking to a friend while keeping both hands free. ... New phone deals, such as family phone plans and buy one phone get a...

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This essay will highlight the style and aforementioned issues which resulted from The Thin Blue Line. Following more classical notions of documentary theory, truth is often related to the cameras ability to gather and record. ... This resulted in the rise of cinema verite's claim to truth, which was based on the ability of technology to produce portable equipment that enabled the camera to gather and record information more reliably than ever before. ... That is, to free Randall Adams by using the most effective means possible. This motivation also enabled Morris to empower t...

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This essay will discuss how relationships between cause and effect contribute to the film's multi-linear narrative. ... This essay will examine the resolution of a narrative crisis within the context of a non-linear structure, contrasting themes of causality, trial by error, and free will vs. determinism; as well as comparing the open-world sandbox depicted in Run Lola Run to an interactive video game. ... The sound of a camera flash warming up can be heard, and their resulting futures are then conveyed through a series of still frames. ... On several occasions the theme of free will vs. ...

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Introduction to Media & Communications: Media Essay Assignment 3 Where, if anywhere, does media power reside? ... This essay discusses the control of media power on two main "spectrums" - media production and media reception by the audience. ... As Altheide (1985: 19) pointed out: "TV news organization prefer events that are learned about from a handful of reliable sources [which would probably mean bureaucratic sources], are accessible to camera crews, have a visual aspect to them, contain possibilities for drama and action, can be shown to be relevant to the audience, and finally, prefer...

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This new act, as recent as April 2003, brought in a new perception of how youth crime should be punished; in this essay I"m going to help you to better understand the justice system used for criminally charged youth in our society. ... In the last few years" surveillance video cameras have been popping up in schools all over Ontario. ... All the education system in Ontario can do right now, is try and have more staff regulating throughout the building, more surveillance cameras, rules, codes of behaviour, and finally consequences for broken rules or codes of behaviour for that particular s...

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Upon analyzing Limbaugh's essay I was able to identify the rhetorical elements. This is a biased essay as it was intended to be. ... The essay stays on track with the idea promised in the title, avoiding any ideas that would pull the essay away from the main topic. ... For example, he addresses adults when saying, "Free love and rampant one-night stands are tougher to come by because people are aware of the risks. ... For example, one of the highest rated programs viewed by teens is The Real World, a show in which seven strangers are forced to live together in a house and are constant...

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Upon analyzing Limbaugh's essay I was able to identify the rhetorical elements. This is a biased essay as it was intended to be. ... The essay stays on track with the idea promised in the title, avoiding any ideas that would pull the essay away from the main topic. ... For example, he addresses adults when saying, "Free love and rampant one-night stands are tougher to come by because people are aware of the risks. ... For example, one of the highest rated programs viewed by teens is The Real World, a show in which seven strangers are forced to live together in a house and are constant...

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My essay will utilize the following economic principles: supply and demand, tax incidence, deadweight loss of taxation, tax distortions and elasticities. The essay will proceed in four sections. ... In this sense, the Internet is a virtually tax-free sales channel. Some opponents debated on this tax-free pattern that would cause a revenue loss of the government. ... Section Three: Elasticity affects the size of the loss Being quite familiar with Internet commerce, I bought a camcorder from an online store at a reasonable price, and plan to purchase a new digital camera in the future. ...

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ENGLISH ESSAY - Adventure stories always teach us something. ... Cast Away is an extremely emotive movie made so by effective camera work and dialogue. ... Inside the box is an antique pocket watch and as the camera zooms in on this article the viewer is informed that it will play a large role later on in the movie. When the plane begins to fall the camera work becomes quite remarkable. ... For instance when Noland is forced to become resourceful so he can survive, the camera follows his movements ...

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During this essay I intend to look at different areas of the media, mainly newspapers and televised news, and discuss how they present and air their views on industrial disputes. ... The notion of free communication is an ideal to be aimed for most newspapers; however, financial constraints mean that in reality the "free press" is a myth. ... They are rarely given a studio or an official platform on which they can air their views or concerns and they are almost never shot talking directly face on to the camera - whereas those of "higher status" are. ... However, in practice the imbalance...

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In Dillard's essay "Sight Into Insight", the author seeks to untangle the question "why do humans perceive the world the way they do?... What Dillard is trying to say here is that people are often expecting the unexpected and instead, they should free their minds to both the expected and unexpected. She further explains that seeing is just like sightseeing with a camera, this device will eventually dominate people's mind because all they care about is to capture stunning photos. ... In conclusion, Dillard's essay shows that sight is different for everyone. ... Pla...

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Every telescreen is also like a camera. ... If there were cameras in all of the bathrooms it would be difficult to do one's business, because he knows that he is being watched. ... There are cameras everywhere, people can find out about anyone through the Internet, and the Government has a tag on all United States citizens with a social security number. ... Martin Esslin has claimed in his essay "Television and Telescreen" that Orwell's fears about television missed the mark on two counts. ... Moreover, the proles, kept free of the telescreen's powers of surveillance, retain t...

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As Ellen DeGeneres puts it in her essay "This is How We Live," "Phones have gone through such an evolution. ... In "Pearls before Breakfast: Joshua Bell on the Subway", Gene Weingarten notes that although one of the best musicians in the world was playing violin for free from the Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station, most people didn't notice him because they were preoccupied and had other things on their minds: "Some who were on cellphones spoke louder as they passed [him], to compete with that infernal racket" (486). ... In "Stalking Celebriti...

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They are always followed by paparazzi or magazine reporters who try to record them secretly with their cameras while these famous people are with their friends. ... However they are always unsuccessful and record by the cameras secretly. ... In the book Goldstein commented that just animals and proles were free. ...

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