‘The Final Project’
CULTURE
Sami Ismail
‘The Final Project’ is a horror film about a group of college students and their film project. The students film a documentary on an old, Civil War era plantation—which is said to be haunted—but they don't believe in spirits. After seeing the film, I had the opportunity to speak to the Writer, Director and Producer of the film, Taylor Ri'chard, who told me about the process of making his vision come to life.
As a child, he grew up in Louisiana where he would hear Ghost stories, and he watched many Alfred Hitchcock films. He used his childhood experiences and passion for horror stories to develop ‘The Final Project’. After the script was completed by him and his co-writer Zackary Davis,
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His comment was, "we couldn't really get what we needed out of it." He had reshoot a lot. He had to find different parts of the same set to shoot at so it didn't look like the TV show. The characters in the film seemed natural, but Ri'chard said "There was room for improv, most of the scenes were scripted". While casting, he "looked for the characters in the personality traits of all the actors". That is why all of characters looked so natural in the film. It's because "they were all just being themselves". Some of the dialogue that he and Zachary Davis wrote was from actual personal experiences which also helped. The characters and the actions that they took ran parallels with reality, of course without horrors.
His advice to aspiring actors, who were auditioning was to, "Walk in the audition room as the character you are portraying. You should study the script really well because you're an actor and no one is looking for anyone, but the character in you." His advice to young filmmakers is to study the business of filmmaking if you want to generate any income from
In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.
Even though this movie is based in real events, but some scene that appear in the film it just give the movie more action and drama. Alan Parker and the writer Chris Gerolmo wanted to the viewers and critics to be able to think and analyze the movie. I think they added other actors to make the movie intense and to add talk about scene. From experience this was an outstanding film.
On August 1, 2007 at approximately 6:05 p.m. 1,064-foot section of the 1,907-foot long I-35W highway bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River. This catastrophic failure of the main bridge span resulted in the death of 13 people and injuring 145 others. In total, 111 documented vehicles were on the bridge at the time that it collapsed. Included in this total are 25 construction vehicles.
In the novel, Hamid also explores Changez’s relationship with Erica as a metaphor of the challenges faced by South Asian Americans in their efforts to assimilate and “become” American through one, the morning after Changez came down for breakfast, he and Erica were the only two there and so they had a conversation. In their conversation, Erica asked him about his home life in Pakistan, to which Changez replied,
The red army barred the burden of war the soviets suffered the larger loss of resources, people and equipment.as the war worsened America declared it's unprepared for war and doesn't get immediately involved in the war till 1944, singling out the soviets.soviets union holds their own just when the war started to look grim soviets pushed germany's advance all the way back to Berlin and capture it. After that truman ends the war in August 1945 with the atomic bomb which starts the cold war . TWO superpowers with opposing views (communism & capitalism).
The Colonial Period (1607-1775) was essentially the first literary movement in America. The ideas portrayed within the period were expressed with two main styles of writing; Puritan and Classical. The puritan style was heavily influenced by God and the puritan's way of life. It was often short and too the point, and referred to ordinary things. The Classical Style was usually used to express analysis, theory, and practice. This style was delivered in a way that it would influence the audience. "Huswifery", by Edward Taylor offers a great example of the use of the Puritan style. He used a spinning wheel, and ordinary object, to compare his relationship to God. He tried to compare his feelings in an ordinary way that followed the puritan style, just like Anne Bradstreet in "To My Dear and Loving Husband". She used multiple metaphors to help explain how great her love was for her husband. Although emotion is not favored in the Puritan style, she vented them through her poetry. In the Classical style of writing, giving sermons was a common way of presenting information to people; and Jonathan Edwards is a great example. His sermons were direct and persuasive because he used literary devices that created images in the audience's heads. All of these stories helped to get people to start worshipping God again, thus giving the creation of the Colonial Period in America.
.../producer. He didn’t over look the little things and I feel like this makes his films feel more alive almost as if you were there experiencing the action with the characters. We also see the use of extreme long shots where Shane is riding into the distance. As he gets smaller we see the wide-open desert terrain grow larger. We also see some use of low-key lighting when he gets into a shoot out with two men. I believe at the time George Stevens was one of the best director/producers in his era and his films will stay known for years to come.
Throughout my Fall 2013 semester I have experienced and learned numerous ideas and information. All of my classes each taught me vital information to succeed and pursue my careers and goals in life. One of those classes was English 314 Honors. This class has truly broadened my horizon towards the numerous collections of literature in our world. I have learned the literary works of Egyptian’s, Mesopotamian’s, Indian’s (South India), Chinese’s, and African’s and how they each impacted their culture. In addition, I learned many philosophical beliefs from wisdom literature and the genre, geographic background, and time period of which each works were made (some dates were roughly estimated). However, the main takeaway from English 314 Honors is the style of how all the different literary works incorporate nature and its meaning it gives to each society. Throughout all the literary works I have learned nature is portrayed as a primitive, creative, beautiful, and tragic conception, which has a major influence on each culture.
There have been many different versions of horror film, but never like this one. It all starts in Compton where two brothers are moving into their new place together. While they are packing the couple is noticing that people are looking dolorous and depressed, when they are looking toward them. O’Shea tells Eric that they are probably having a bad day and they will soon warm up to us. While they are moving their possessions into the house Eric feels a strange presence around him, as if something is watching him.
The 1960s was a period well remembered for all the civil rights movements that occurred during that time frame and the impact these movements had on the social and political dynamics of the United States. The three largest movements that were striving in the 1960s were the African American civil rights movement, the New Left movement and the feminist movement. These three movements were in a lot of ways influenced by each other and were very similar in terms of their goals and strategies. However, within each of these movements there were divisions in the way they tried to approach the issues they were fighting against. Looking at each of these movements individually will reveal the relationship they all share as well as the changes that were brought forth as a result of each groups actions.
the film, to create a re-make that is worth going to see. The use of
Over the course of Intro to College Writing I have written a total of three essays and turned in. These three essays consist of: Narrative, Profile, and Argumentative. My first essay was the Narrative in which I wrote about the night of my mothers arrest. With this essay. I as a writer was trying to convey the emotions I felt during the experience and describe the many atmospheres that occurred throughout the incident. The only memorable thing from this essay was figuring out how to end the essay in a way that wrapped the entire essay back up in a short meaningful, stylistic way. That I felt I did well with my last line being “That was the first time I had said “I love you” in well, I couldn't tell you.” Through writing that last statement I felt I summed up a struggling relationship I held with my mother sparring details that spanned over years into a simple sentence that echoed around the core concept. This was the only breakthrough I met as I wrote this essay recalling the night and describing my feelings flowed easily and I found myself done quickly. I only stopped to find a fancier word or write a sentence in a different way. Either making it longer, shorter or include more details. I had strong feelings that I communicated the entire situation in a comprehensible and touching way. Looking back on the essay there was much too be corrected as I did in my re-write such as: Organization, fragments, Contractions, comma splices.
The producer was aiming to create mystery and fear. The dark of the night and the description of the house as feeling dead in the protagonist’s narration sets a suspenseful scene filled with fear and tension. The young girl is followed by the camera as she explores the mansion. When entering the room suspected to be that of her aunts the camera leaves her side to pan around the room. The darkness doesn’t reveal everything but one becomes aware of a search. The revelation of little secrets leaves the viewer with many questions. The room is familiar to the protagonist as she finds items symbolic to her and familiar photographs. This familiarity however does not retract from suspicions that something sinister has been hidden. The producer has successfully captivated the viewer. The protagonist is being followed throughout the scene and has thus allowed for the viewer to bond with them. They are engaging with the audience through narration and have in return enticed the viewer to follow them along their journey. One feels nervous for the young girl however through tension in the scene one does not want them to discontinue the journey as too many questions have been left unanswered. One has been drawn into the world of which the protagonist dwells and is intrigued as to how the drama is
Some of these qualities of the movie are quite charming; like the period hairstyles, or the style of the roleplaying and standards by Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston to play the Perron parents. Other claims of truthiness, though, are way less enjoyable. There are, of course, actual photos and the newspaper clippings that play over the end credits. And then, at the other side of the film, before we even get to our so called haunted house, we have scenes of the Warren’s (ghost hunters or demonic explorers) working other cases, and answering questions to interested humans in lecture halls to answer their ...
“Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine, some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything’s not okay.” - David Fincher. David Fincher is the director that I am choosing to homage for a number of reasons. I personally find his movies to be some of the deepest, most well made, and beautiful films in recent memory. However it is Fincher’s take on story telling and filmmaking in general that causes me to admire his films so much. This quote exemplifies that, and is something that I whole-heartedly agree with. I am and have always been extremely opinionated and open about my views on the world and I believe that artists have a responsibility to do what they can with their art to help improve the culture that they are helping to create. In this paper I will try to outline exactly how Fincher creates the masterpieces that he does and what I can take from that and apply to my films.