Different mediums of production have different purposes, audiences and techniques available to them, creating a different impression of a story. ... Where in a book the imagination provides the information that is left out, each responder creating their own image of each setting, in a movie it is essential to design each individual element to create the right impression. ... Lighting and colours help create the mood, with warm rural browns indicating the farm village in comparison with the cold darkness of the Zoo. ... Camera angles also help to convey the atmosphere, close-ups on faces showin...

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Brechtian influenced sets create no specific atmosphere nor provoke emotional reactions from an audience as to taint their objectivity. Brecht believed that a stage set should help to explain the theme of a play not create a mood. ... Brechtian inspired lighting is generally prominent, harsh and only used to illuminate the figures rather than develop a mood. ... No physical presence of inmates leads to the audience in the theatre "becoming" the inmates to whom Winston delivers his speech; creating a play-within-a-play situation. ...

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There is also a metaphorical darkness in that the city's physical bleeds into the mood and the life, where 'crust upon crust of mud' is added to daily, where dogs are 'undistinguishable' and 'horses, scarcely better'. ... Weather is used to create atmosphere, mud, waters, people falling over themselves and each other, it is the great modern city and its horrors. ... These paragraphs create atmosphere by using the description of 'Implacable November weather', the darkness with 'the death of the sun', the 'waterside pollutions of ...

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I would like to have told them that the sooner I was rid of that hate-beleaguered atmosphere the better, that I was fed up of America's insults and moral pomposity. 5 Move To Europe and Production of A King in New York All of these events would set the stage for Chaplin, now residing permanently in Europe, producing his first film. ... It was born out of the troubles that Chaplin faced personally as well as the culture that the Cold War had created in the United States throughout the 1950s. ... This would be Chaplin's first major production outside of Hollywood and he found himsel...

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This makes the figure seem further fragmented and enclosed within the shallow space, which also seems to create a lack of depth. ... The Girl with a Mandolin demonstrates the gentle brushwork of Picasso and his use of sandy tan colours and cool blue-greys as he composes a lyrical atmosphere, evoking the sensations drawn by the associations of the girl and the mandolin. ... The marked signs of these objects - the staves of the music, the strings, handle and sound-holes of the violin no longer belong to these individual objects that they symbolise but rather have become encapsulated in the r...

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It is important to assess the cultural atmosphere during which a film is released. The Celluloid Alamo claims that "[m]ovies provide a looking glass through which historians can observe the popular mood of the audience.... An understanding of the cultural atmosphere during which Dumbo and The Lion King were released will help bring to light deep seated racial insensitivities. ...

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It could be defined as 'the management of feeling to create publicly observable facial and bodily display; emotional labour is sold for a wage and therefore has exchange value' (1983). ... The emotional commodification could create a convivial and comfortable atmosphere for customers (Sheane, 2011). ...

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In this essay the five components listed above will be explored and analysed in order see how they work to create meanings and establish themes. ... The lightening throughout the first scene creates powerful imagery. ... Sound is an extremely important factor in "The Limey" as it allows the audience to realise the mood of the scene. ... The stillness and intensity of the scene where Wilson brings out the newspaper clipping and address on the back of an opened envelope cause him emotion and therefore exaggerating the atmosphere of mystery and disconcert that is later to be unfolded. ... Th...

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People who use E's at "raves" consider the drug to be a mood elevator that produces feelings of empathy, openness and well-being making it easier to communicate, dance, and feel close to others. ... Ravers that are on MDMA are usually able to dance for long periods of times, which are the main reason for attending a rave, and because most Ravers are using MDMA, it creates a sense of acceptance and equality. The use of Ecstasy at raves/dance clubs is the greatest cause of death because Ecstasy affects the body temperature control and dancing for long periods of time in a hot atmosphere i...

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Personally, regarding the general outlook on my performance as Fish, I had used a series of Brechtian techniques such as breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience and sudden mood changes. ... Half of the circle was sitting on the floor while the other half squeezed on the steps and it all ruined the tensed atmosphere we had going in our rehearsal. ... The overhead projector also destroyed our placing of stools in a square as we had originally planned to move around on them and we were now unable due to the shadow effect on our faces it would create in doing so. ...

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Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, is a modern Titan Prometheus of Greek mythology in his desire to overcome man's limitations and gain God-like power. The full title of Shelly's novel and the influence of the myth of Prometheus Bound may be noted. For the romantics Prometheus be...

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Many times they infused European inventions, such as Christianity, with their own brand of African worship, to create a culturally rich tradition that would sustain their needs and last the ages. It is important to commemorate slave achievements because many of their essential practices have created art forms, styles of music, ways of religious worship, and traditions that are with the American culture to this day. ... An example of a storytelling atmosphere goes as follows: Instances of dancing in a circle occur during storytelling time in the villages as the storyteller sits in the middl...

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This effect is created with a combination of several techniques. ... However, it is at least as important for the reader as well, because the reader is very closely bound to the character's thoughts and impressions and also to her mood and state of mind. ... The presence of light colors contrasts with the image of a haunted house, leading to the idea of an artificially maintained atmosphere: it feels as if the real dark colors of the house are superficially hidden in the artificially bright light. ... The words are carefully selected, creating sensations that the readers can almost experi...

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Addiction Counselor The role and characteristic of an addiction counselor is helping those find recovery that suffer from active addiction from any mind-mood altering substance. The addiction counselor is to provide an atmosphere of support, education, and nonjudgmental confrontation. ...

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