1. The Sun
The simple cuts used in editing conversational scenes have usually quick rhythm, except for the more romantic scenes, like Frances's conversation with the real estate agent after he looks for the snake throughout the house, and then Frances reveals that she feels lonely and hopeless in this huge house she bought for herself. Although the scene still uses simple cuts, the length of each shot is stretched in time so that the emotional load can be conveyed to the viewer. Other emotionally loaded scenes are also using a slower rhythm. In that regard, the film pretty much follows the general rule that the romantic scenes are slower in pace and even moderately employs some special slowing editing techniques known as optical effects.
Even though the film, as most of the modern films, uses electronic editing, which allows on heavy dependence on opticals, there are very few opticals used in Under the Tuscan Sun. Since using opticals, like fades, dissolves and wipes, is an area where electronic editing is highly effective because of the ease to employ and preview them, the minimal use of these elements in this film can be explained in terms of the topic of the picture. The film shows a contemporary world and very realistic events, like divorce, moving out of the house, looking for a new goal in life, looking for romance. The film is not really trying to make the life look more beautiful or romantic or as a fairy tale. The main character, Frances does not feel very romantic after her divorce, so the movie pretty much reflects it. There are a few scenes that utilize fade-outs, where the picture becomes darker until a complete blackness. These scenes are putting the viewer in a yearning mood. For example, when Frances finds her new lover in Italy, Marcello, and decides to visit him in his house after not seeing him for a long time, the scene on the motorcycle fades-out. This extra time gives the viewer an opportunity to assess the character's motivation and sort of puts the viewers' vigilance asleep, just to make Frances's disappointment bitterer when she finds that Marcello found somebody else.
Sunspots A sunspot is a relatively cool area on the Sun. ... They are formed because of the Suns magnetism. ... Solar flares extend out to the layer of the Sun called the corona (4). ... The frequency of flares coincides with the Sun's eleven-year cycle. ... A coronagraph produces an artificial eclipse of the Sun by placing an "occulting disk" over the image of the Sun. ...
Sunspots and their magnetic effects are among the most fascinating features on the Sun. ... Sunspots have been studied longer than any other feature of the Sun. ... In the August of 1610, he turned his new telescope to the Sun to study sunspots by observing their repeated transits across the sun. Gallileo found that the spots were carried from east to west across the surface of the Sun over a period of about 13 days, becoming smaller and smaller and then dissapearing behind the Sun for the equal amount of time and then reappearing again at the east side of the...
Editing plays an enormous role in the success of a film. ... One scene specifically stands out in this film for its brilliant editing techniques. ... These shots were edited in an attempt to create a scene of horror and violence. ... This technique of editing which Hitchcock and Tomasini primarily used is called montage editing. Montage editing is a series of shots put next to each other to create a more intense situation. ...
This position required him to teach courses in astronomy on the basis of the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's theory that the sun and all planets revolve around the earth. ... Although Galileo had already adopted the Copernican view that earth is not the center but actually the sun he still needed proof. ... Galileo went to Rome to try and argue his case in the winter of 1616 and as a member of the Medici court he became a guest of the Tuscan ambassador. ... The German thought the sunspots to be satellites moving around the sun therefore keeping the sun perfect as doctrine states but Galileo...
Sun Tzu's Art of War Long ago, Sun Tzu once wrote, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt. ... Sun Tzu's Art of War is written by Sun Wu and is set in the final years of the Spring and Autumn Period, 770-476 B.C. ... Hence, Sun Wu became Sun Tzu. ... King He Lu, now convinced of Sun Wu's skills as a commander, made him his general. ... Here Sun Tzu is talking about timing and efficiency. ...
I believe that Sun Yat Sen.'... Many of Sun's actions during this period of time were condemned. ... Others believe that this period where Sun was not involved in politics and the revolution was halted shows how much Sun's revolutionary antics were need in China. ... This was a dark period in Sun's quest for a revolution. ... Without the united front Sun's ideology would have laid dormant and...
His interest in medicine though was very slim and he eventually began to receive instruction in mathematics from outside of his school by a man named Ostilio Ricci who was the mathematician of the Tuscan Court and a friend of his fathers. ... Galileo was also a strong believer in the Copernican system of the solar system, in which the Earth and all of the planets revolved around the Sun. ... The inquisition, a group formed by the church to destroy heresy, deemed Galileo's writings and teachings that the Sun is the center of the universe in opposition of the scripture and therefore heres...
During the 14th century shortly before the famous document was written the Tuscan dialect was the main dialect of Tuscany and throughout Florence in Italy. Tuscan departs least in morphology and phonology from the classical Latin. This Tuscan language harmonizes best with the Italian traditions or Latin culture. The first dictionary for Italian was edited in 1612 by the Accademia Della Crusca, an Italian society for scholars and Italian linguists established in Florence. ...