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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Three-Act Structure"”.
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Arnwood
This is a practical exegesis covering the development of a feature-length film script called Arnwood. It is a commercially developed adaptation of the classic novel, The Children of the New Forest (Marryat, 1993) using a Hollywood Three Act Structure (Thomas, 2010) and archetypal character …
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Picnic in the abattoir
… viewership and the gaze, etc. The collection is structured in three sections, or "Acts", supplemented with a "Postscript". This structure is intended to mimic, but ultimately subvert, the traditional three-act structure of narrative fiction and film. These poems not only serve as a continuation …
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Swamp Gum
… message pertaining to the clear felling practices that threaten those forests. Swamp Gum follows a classic three-act structure and prescribes to the principal of rising action. Many of the passages are written in a colloquial Australian brogue, with the goal of enhancing the authenticity of …
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My Impossible Task? Writing an Ethical Biopic of Samuel Johnson
This practice-based PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of eighteenth-century lexicographer and writer Samuel Johnson, entitled Sam J, and a thesis which reflects upon the process of writing that film. The research question asks whether it is possible to write a biopic which operates …
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Shame shapeshifters masking as disengagement: a grounded theory study examining academic achievement-related emotions in high school
… theory for understanding the nature of shame and three-act structure—the Strugglish Superhero Storyboard move from the shame space toward success.
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Making a feature length documentary film linked to the programme for improving mental health care (PRIME) : process and ethical challenges
… its typical use in fictional filmmaking, the three-act structure was fitting as a framework for the narrative. Timecoding during translation and transcription was found to be particularly expedient for inserting English sub-titles. The country comparative approach revealed similaries and …
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Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts
… possibility of a happy future? The opera is in a three-act structure. Motives and accompaniment figures (eventually also orchestration) are used as metaphoric underpinning throughout the work. Central throughout is the interval of a third. Although not used tonally, the harmonic third creates the …
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Esther and the Maccabees: The Creation of a Hellenist Jewish Heroine
… the canon of the Hebrew Bible. These unique characteristics stretch through its characters, its developed literary style, and the ideology it espouses. Academics often address individual issues in isolation such as its various scriptural forms in Greek and Hebrew, its absence from Qumran, and the …