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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Original film"”.
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A Score of Voices: Creating and Scoring an Original Film With A cappella Choir
<p>Film scores typically feature large instrumental ensembles, sometimes with choir added at pivotal moments. Rarely, however, is the choir entrusted with a greater percentage of the score, and far too scores explore the sonic potential that vocal music has to offer. In fact, in a recent study of …
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Mystery of the Wax Museum: An Original Film Score for Orchestra and an Analysis Outlining the Evolution of Film Music Through American Horror Films of the Early 1930s
… the transitional period between silent films and fully-scored sound films. Connecting the history between producers, directors, and composers reveals how and why film scoring became an accepted practice by the mid-1930s while shedding light on the commonly-overlooked composers whose …
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A Brief History of Live Cinema and Rehearsal Considerations for Metropolis Triptych by Nathan Jones
… a renewed interest in the music that accompany films from the Silent Film Era (1895–1930), sparking both the revival of original scores and the composition of new scores for silent films. These modern scores involve a diverse collection of artists, musical styles, and venues that—in combination …
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The Mill: Analysis of the Original Score and Film
The Mill is an original film and music performance piece chronicling the history of the steel industry in the United States, with specific connections to Pittsburgh. In addition to scoring the project, I designed the sound and produced the film and music and also shot and edited the film. About …
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Copyright and film: the impact of style
The modern landscape of the film industry has facilitated an erosion of originality, in respect of both content and style. With significantly greater emphasis placed on the profitability of blockbuster cinema, the underlying creative process is now characterised largely by a crosspollination of …
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(Un)real (un)realities : exploring the confusion of reality and unreality through cinema
… that recent years have seen a proliferation of films based on the confusion between reality and unreality; and, further, that these have enforced a fear of being deceived by technology. Indeed, such post-classical films as Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990), The Lawnmower Man (Leonard, 1992), The …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the language-resistant …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the language-resistant …
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Film Dialogue Translation And The Intonation Unit : Towards Equivalent Effect In English And Chinese
This thesis proposes a new approach to film dialogue translation (FDT) with special reference to the translation process and quality of English-to-Chinese dubbing. In response to the persistent translation failures that led to widespread criticism of dubbed films and TV plays in China for their …
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Witch Hazel Advent, The Story of an Ozark Poet
… I shot and edited a half hour long documentary film comprised of interviews and footage of John at his home near Winslow, Arkansas. John is a talented poet, and segments of his poetry are woven throughout the film.</p> <p>The inspiration for this project is deeply rooted in place: the remote …
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Digital Echoes of the iGeneration: An Examination of Digital Media Used in 21st Century Education
… three teams of middle grades students create an original film about a topic of their choosing. The impetus of the study is fueled by a personal curiosity to see how students learn when given the freedom and flexibility to research and explore outside of a standards-based environment using digital …
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Initiation and growth of corrosion fatigue crack for AVPP treated stainless steel.
… of material surface condition, notably passive film condition and surface residual stress and the effect of applied surface stress on the development of corrosion pits has been assessed in relation to their role on the fatigue behaviour of stainless steel materials, in particular the early …
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Complex nanostructures in triblock terpolymer thin films
The thin film phase behavior of poly(styrene)-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine)-block-poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) (PS-b-P2VP-b-PtBMA) triblock terpolymers with volume fractions f(PS) : f(P2VP) : f(PtBMA) = 1 : 1.2 : x, with x ranging from 3.05 to 4, is studied with a combinatorial gradient approach. …