Create a piece of art about racism to change the society
Creative writing - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Racism is a key problem in my society; therefore I would love to create a piece of art on racism. Racism is a major problem in the societies we live in today. Therefore, we need to come together and work for the future of our country. Hence I have come up with this idea to create some nice pieces...
Eugenics and determination: a review of Gattaca (1997)
Artwork analysis - 1 pages - Film studies
Let's take a look at Andrew Niccol's latest SF movie, featuring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. Nominee of the best Art Direction-Set Direction, Gattaca raises interesting questions while being artistically on point.
Land Art of the Twentieth Century
Course material - 5 pages - Art history
The term land art refers to an art movement that was popularized in the 1960s and 1970s. It was popularly associated with Great Britain and the United States, but it included examples from other countries. Land art, also referred to Earth art, environmental art, or Earth work, broadens the...
Jarhead - Sam Mendes (2005) - The place of men and women in society during the war
Artwork analysis - 3 pages - Film studies
Jarhead is a trip movie and also a movie of war that tells the stories of the soldiers, it was filmed in the late 1970s, Sam Mendes directed the film based on the true story of Anthony Swofford's private life as a military man in the US marine, the movie takes us back to the Gulf War. The...
Activities on a construction site
Internship report - 15 pages - Architecture
For the purpose of obtaining the degree in Mechanical Civil Engineering (GCM). At the end of the third year, each student must complete an internship in a company (or communities or design office). It is an opportunity for the student to discover the world of work and to really understand the...
Are We the Best Informed Citizens in History?
Text analysis - 3 pages - Medias
This document is a commentary of graphs and press cartoon, drafted as a presentation, aiming at answering the question “Are we the best-informed citizens in history?”. The selected documents are from all around the world, as we are in a networked society thanks to globalization. We...
Podcast: Nelson Mandela
Creative writing - 2 pages - Medias
Good morning, London and welcome to BBC radio 4! It is 7AM, and today we will talk about the famous man nicknamed Madiba, who fought against the apartheid in South Africa during his entire life. He was president and he was honored by the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela!
Refuge of Art - Andy Goldsworthy
Artwork analysis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist born in 1956. His sensitivity to the beauty of nature comes from his childhood working on farms. After that, he studied Beaux-Arts at Bradford Art College and Preston Polytechnic in Lancaster. This explains why his works combine nature and contemporary art and...
What is independent cinema?
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Il s'agit d'un essai sur le cinéma indépendant et sa définition au travers des différents protagonistes de l'industrie cinématographique. Il est structuré de la façon suivante : I. Histoire et émergence du cinéma indépendant II. Caractère financier impliqué par l'indépendance...
Twice the fall - Creating a short movie based on real facts
Speech - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie I'm about to introduce is titled Twice the fall. It traces back the 09/11 events through the story of two distinct characters, Linda Vasquez and Seth Grayson, respectively confronted with psychological and political issues. September 11th, 2001, Manhattan. The twin towers collapse,...
Jane Eyre - Franco Zeffirelli (1996) - The issue of adaptation
Artwork analysis - 18 pages - Film studies
Zeffirelli had to combine several, sometimes contradictory constraints: he had to update the text, to maintain a specific filmic transcription of the novel, and to negotiate a delicate balance between recognising the influence of the source text and the need for a specific creativity in the...
Technical and Architectural Study - The Market Hall in Rotterdam, a Hybrid Market - The Mixing of Functions at a Building Scale
Case study - 6 pages - Architecture
After five years of work, the city of Rotterdam inaugurated in October 2014, the first covered market of the Netherlands which cost 175 million euros. Located in the city centre and close to Blaak Railway Station, the Market Hall is part of the renovation project of this historic district. Our...
Primary Colors - Mike Nichols (1998)
Essay - 1 pages - Film studies
In January 1996 the journalist and moderate columnist Joe Klein anonymously published a book which was entitled Primary Colors. Quickly, the novel knew a great success and became a best-seller: it spent 9 weeks as number one on the New York Times bestseller list. So it's one of the most...
Advertising Production For Television
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Ads give thanks, shower praise, confirm self-worth, answer prayers, express devotion, foster hope and inspire belief … In the end, we buy the advertising, not the product, because it promises something we want. This quote is somewhat true, as it is saying that adverts promise to make our...
Form and Style in Film
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Film form is the decisions you make that concern and shape the whole story, as it has been written or how it will be shown to the audience, and film style is the specific shooting, editing and audio decisions we make to support the form. The form is all about the story, plot, and narrative of the...
The Codes and Conventions of Factual Programming for Television
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Film studies
Documentary films are ‘non-fictional, slice of life factual works of art' (Reference: http://www.filmsite.org/docfilms.html). Because of this, documentaries may be described as accurate representations of life, whether that is true or not is a completely different story. The earliest...
Analysing suspense sequences - Blackout and It Follows
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Film studies
Blackout is set within a medium-sized apartment, with the main locations we see being the bedroom, the kitchen, and a storage room. The bedroom is small, the bed in the middle with a small amount of space on either side. Bedside table with a lamp, some books and a framed photo of a person. The...
Stalker - Andreï Tarkovski (1979)
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Stalker is a film directed by Andreï Tarkovski shot in 1979 in U.S.S.R. The screenplay is loosely based on a novel by Boris and Arcady Strugatski: Roadside Picnic. The Stalker works as a guide who leads people through 'The Zone' - an area where the normal laws of physics no longer apply-...
Irresistible - Jon Stewart (2020)
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Irresistible is an American political comedy film written and directed by Jon Stewart and released in June 2020 in the US with as main characters: Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace, Natasha Lyonne, and Rose Byrne. This movie speaks about the political world specially in...
Corpse Bride (Les Noces funèbres ou La Mariée cadavérique au Québec) - Tim Burton (2005)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Corpse Bride is a 2005 animated film directed by Tim Burton. It was created using the technique of stop-motion, which consists of objects being physically manipulated between individually photographed frames. In this case, the objects used are puppets with movable joints, as in many other Tim...
Television Studies - Nouveaux Médias - "Is television dead?"
Essay - 4 pages - Medias
Essai académique argumentatif ayant pour ambition de répondre à la question "Is television dead?". Dans cet essai, j'explore la question sous plusieurs angles, en tentant notamment de nuancer ma réponse.
Analyse cinématographique - Le Gothique - Tim Burton - Les Noces Funèbres
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
Analyse cinématographique du film d'animation Les Noces Funèbres réalisé par Tim Burton. Dans ce devoir, je rends compte notamment du renouveau du genre du gothique.
Women's Employment Opportunities in Key Creative Roles of Filmmaking in the UK and in France
Essay - 6 pages - Film studies
This business report compares the employment opportunities in the film industry for women in France and in the UK. France has more films produced and released than the UK, meaning more people are employed in the French film industry. Certain factors create obstacles for women in building their...
The Tangible Sight: The Haptic Experience in Film
Thesis - 20 pages - Film studies
The following essay concerns audio-visual representations of the sense of touch in cinema, with a focus on contemplative and experimental cinema, and the affect it has on a general audience. To explain what happens physiologically and psychologically that allows us to feel, I've studied the...
Comparing Sir Philip Green affair on The Sun and The Guardian
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
The Sun is a conservative British tabloid created on September 15th of 1964 in London (at Wapping) by Sidney Jacobsen and most sold in the United Kingdom, almost 3 billion 2 hundred copies per day. Concerning The Guardian, it's a social-liberalism British Broadsheet founded in 1821 in London...
The mortar of assimilation-and the one element that won't mix - C.J. Taylor (1889)
Presentation - 1 pages - Paint
First and foremost, the picture can be obtained in higher resolution and quality and uncropped by a simple web search. The version that can be found on The Newberry's website, which calls itself « Chicago's Independent Research Library », will allow us to deepen our analysis.
The Museum of Modern Art
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Why are you interested in participating in an internship at The Museum of Modern Art?
Internship report Account Manager
Internship report - 8 pages - Medias
What I really like during this internship is the diverse missions I got assigned to. Indeed, the range of missions that were given to me were quite broad and it allowed me to have a wide vision of the day-to-day job in a fast-growing company like S4M.
Is art an efficient answer to the political and social injustice faced by poorer classes?
Artwork analysis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
"Some might say that the world is a mess right now. Others point out that it could be worse. In our war torn world, it depends on who you are and where you live". That's how the article from the Huffington Post, called "Artists as Activists : Pursuing Social Justice" and written by Amy...
Journalism and Public Relations
Book review - 10 pages - Journalism
Poverty and Social Disadvantage as entertainment? Consider the role of contemporary media in stigmatising benefits recipients. Support your discussion with relevant media examples, you may include newspaper reporting alongside television representation.
