The same holds true with The Exorcist. When the action is focusing on the girl possessed by the devil, it is very tense; however when the priest and other characters are away from the girls the tension is not nearly as high. Psycho is one of the psychological thrillers that has a continually rising tension. No one is quite sure what or who is the killer of the movie until the end. The mysterious killer keeps the tension high throughout the movie. To judge a movie as bad or good base solely on tension is not possible because so many movie have different types of tension. Also, the choice based on tension would be entirely personal.
Special effects play an important role in horror films. Horror films normally contain the best possible special effects. Many of the films, including Frankenstein and The Exorcist, involve intricate make-up for the monster. Frankenstein lacked the technology for many special effects because it was filmed in the 1930's; however, the Frankenstein monster had some of the best make-up artists of the time working on his look. Psycho had a different type of special effects. The main one of the use of camera angles. They filmed the famous shower killing scene with over 70 cameras all at different angles. The camera angles were all showed within about forty-five seconds of actual movie time. This caused a sense of urgency in the film and was a tremendous accomplishment for special effects. The Exorcist, being the most recent of the three movies, has the best special effects. The make-up was used to make the child possessed look demon-like. They placed air bladders under a fake layer of skin to make it appear as if something inside the child was boiling with something trying to escape. Also, they used camera angles to make it appear as if the child spun her head completely around without moving her torso. In the new version of The Exorcist they used to newest technology on computers to make some even more frightening scenes.
The issue of the relationship between the mass media and the popular culture has always been a controversial issue in social sciences. The political economists insist on the role of the media industry in the creation of this phenomenon of the twentieth century. Though, advocates such as John Fiske, ...
As Landow and Delany note, hypermedia is a multimedia extension of hypertext that is more complex and interactive, integrating visual and auditory experiences as well as texts and links to give a more contextual synthesis of the information explored." ... It also employs the basic technique of film editing to subjectively speed up or slow down time just as in traditional cinema, Myst slows down time to create suspense and tension" (Manovich, 1999, p186) While Michael Korolenko explains how through the use of traditional narrative techniques Phantasmagoria can be described as an interactive ...
Discuss the importance of the place of the visual arts in Schoenberg's life and work, including his musical and dramatic works. I would cite four different aspects of the affect that the visual arts had on Schoenberg: Painting as a mode of self-expression; Incorporation of visual arts into dramatic works (Gesamtkunstwerk); Support and Camaraderie: an aspect of the inter-arts movement in Vienna, and Homogenous Aesthetic Theories between his Expressionistic music and Expressionistic painters. Additionally, I will discuss why Expressionistic painting seemed to hold a limited appeal for him...
