General Purpose: To inform my audience about Quentin Tarantino. Specific Purpose: My audience will know who he is, how he became Quentin Tarantino, and most important his movies. Introduction Attention Reveal Topic Relevancy Credibility Preview I. If you liked that you'll l...

Set against the backdrop of the mid 1990's Los Angeles club scene, Swingers, gives us an engaging and realistic look into the L.A. singles life, and serves as a parable for all of those out there that have looked for love, failed and have had the courage to get up and try again. The story cente...

Friday vs. Barbershop Comedies have always been my favorite movies. The ones that had the biggest impression on me are Friday and Barbershop. These two movies did not just have talented casts with Ice Cube as a main character in both of them but two great directors as well. They also possessed ...

In the media arts class you learn about the camera and all about the different angles and shots there are. Some of these shots are; wide shots medium shots close ups and extreme close-ups. You learn that when you are filming a variation of different shots and camera angles can make the video that ...

Tarantino: Writer, Director, Actor, Lunatic You've seen it before. It's been mocked in several movies. You may have even pretended to do it with your buddies. It's the slow motion walk scene from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dog's. Little did Tarantino know, that thi...

Having no previous directing experience I was not quite sure what to expect coming into this project. Having a primarily performance background in theatre I was somewhat nervous about having to now be the one giving the direction and instruction rather then taking it. I was, however, able to use m...

My movie review is on 'snow falling on cedars¡. My oppion of this movie is that it was a little too boring and didn¡t really go anywhere in the long run. But it did have its good points; the camera shots were fantastic and the actors acting ability was also good. The story is about a boy named ...

Two films that show the ups, and more often the downs of filmmaking are "8 ½" by Fellini and "Day for Night" by Francios Truffaut. The films follow around the crew and cast who are in the process of filming a movie. What is of most interest are the difficulties movie producer...

Directing: A Career Profile Directing is a difficult, yet exciting and creative career with a long history and a promising future. It's a career full of stress, but the end production is well worth it. With a little time and a lot of patience, someone could create a successful movie, TV show, or...

William Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing" differs in many ways to MGM Studios adaptation to the text. With over 400 years separating the original play from the modern day film, there are many differences in characters, the setting, the costumes, and the dialogue. Many of t...

John Singleton The dictionary definenition of an 'auteur' is 'a film director who is considered as having a dominant creative role'. This is extremely vague, as you could say that almost all directors have a strong role in the creative process of film. If this stat...

In 1954 Akira Kurosawa released his film, Seven Samurai to the public. Almost half a decade later I have the privilege to also view this great film. This was the first Japanese film that I have ever given the time of day to actual view in its entirety. From the beginning to the end I was totally...

Dreams After watching the movie Dreams, I feel that it is to complicated and in depth for the average person. Akira Kurosawa, who lived in Japan from 1910 to 1998, directed the movie. Akira was a very respected director, but is criticized for his films being too intellectual. The movie Dreams...

Another movie with talking animals, most likely means another big flop in the theatres. However, audiences soon changed their minds after viewing the live action tale of Babe™, the marvelous movie based on Dick King-Simth's children's novel, "The Sheep-Pig." The cinematography...