Essays On Entertainment

No matter the language, be it Italian, Latin, Spanish, or any other, music can elicit emotions in people. Whether it is an aria, a polyrhythmic swarm, smooth French or Japanese pop music, or classic rock from America or the United Kingdom – music has the power to connect with many and is often tied to […]

One might say that even though people do not practice any music themselves, still they indeed are a part of the ways in which music changes or stays the same, and how genres and new music are created. Music is communication in a way, an expression of the heart and mind, and these expressions are […]

The sequence of the movie that I have decided to focus on is the battle scene at the beginning of the movie in Germania. In total the whole battle takes approximately 7 – 8 minutes. I decided to use this scene because it is my favourite section of the film and it also has so […]

Intended for Year 4 students, this unit of work aims to foster their knowledge, skills, and understanding of using line, tone, and colour in their own artwork. To stimulate their imagination, the students are exposed to different stimuli including music, studying artists’ work, and experimenting with different mediums. The inspiration for this unit emerged from […]

Manchester is a city renowned for its popularity with the younger generation. The city is not only known for its youthful image, but for its industrial style buildings in the form of terraced houses and the factories which are spread around Manchester. Through Factory and the Hacienda these two aspects of Manchester culture were merged […]

The Matrix is an excellent and very successful film. It is not a normal action-thriller film, but has introduced its own genre to us. The genre includes sci-fi, action, futuristic enhancements and another level of computer generation. The Matrix is structured by a series of questions. The questions raise philosophical and moral points, just like […]

‘Ferris Buellers Day Off’ is one of the most popular teen comedies of the eighties containing quotes that were constantly repeated. It was released in 1986 and directed by famous director ‘John Hughes’.The film is a study of a charismatic teenager played by Matthew Broderick. His character pretends to be ill to get the day […]

For the essay ‘Analysing a trailer’ we have watched and discussed a number of trailers from a video. I will be writing about trailers that I have seen and discussed about logos, scenery, music, amount of cuts in specific types of trailers, genre, which is the type of film it is based on and the […]

‘Strangers On A Train’ is a film from the thriller genre. One of the key elements of a thriller film is the creation of suspense. Using a variety of film techniques such as camera angles, lighting, sound and music, special effects, comedy and symbolism can create this suspense.Hitchcock uses camera angles very effectively in a […]

In 2000, Jan De Bont directed the action film “Speed,” which was not the first of its kind. The birth of the modern action film is commonly attributed to “Star Wars” in 1977, but the genre can be traced back to silent movies at the turn of the 20th century. Action films typically center around […]

During the early fourteenth century there occurred an imperative stylistic change in music, now commonly known as the “Ars nova” period. The term “Ars nova” means quite literally “new art” when translated from the Latin and refers to the new way of thinking of composers at his time. The term itself was initially used by […]

‘The woman I love is.. .dead’ whispering the finale word he dramatically leaves the rest of the story for us to see, we are taken back in time from the depressing overcast atmosphere where drunken Christian begins to tell his scandalous romance in grief.From the very beginning when the curtains are drawn back in a […]

The film Witness is about corruption in the police force, the merging and conflict of cultures and romance between two culturally different people. Witness contains many moral issues, which include, murder, cultural awareness, and religion. The Amish way of life is very simple; they wear simple clothes, use simple farming and building methods and they […]

The consideration of place in relation to music has gained more importance in historical and cultural studies; researchers now examine rural and urban spaces where music is experienced on a day to day basis. Scholars have illustrated the importance of place in many studies which include how place may play a role in fostering genres […]

We live in a culture highly obsessed with the celebrity, they play a large role in the lives of individuals, whether subconsciously aware of this or not. The space they occupy in our lives has been for the most part, unexplored. This essay attempts to explore the ways in which celebrities exert a gatekeeping control […]

With reference to horror film and texts from the sub-genre vampires, particularly those dealing with the Dracula story, are interesting to investigating how the horror genre has changed over time, because of their lasting popularity but changing appeal. From an industrial perspective genre emerged from studio system’s dual need for standardisation and differentiation. These are […]

Moulin Rouge is described by Baz Luhrmann as audience participation cinema. This means that the audience can get involved and that emotions are usually exaggerated. This has the same idea as Bollywood movies, which is where he got his inspiration from. This type of cinema is part of Baz Luhrmann’s trademark and he purposely makes […]

Over the past four decades, ‘Lord of the Flies’, Sir William Golding’s top-selling novel, has been adapted twice into films. To assess the matter at hand, I intently viewed the initial five minutes of these motion pictures, taking note of all the visual and auditory details. Additionally, I scrutinized the lighting techniques, cinematography, and post-production […]

The report aims to give a summary of the record labels industry by introducing the music industry, its markets and the role that record labels play in recording artists and their compositions. The report will also highlight the dominance of major companies and examine the position of independent labels within this context. Throughout the course, […]

For the following proposal the issue of alcohol sponsorship being the key financial, dominator within events, such as music festivals, which are a popular phenomenon with the under 30’s today, will be researched. The report will begin with a literature review which will help identify the key themes taken from secondary data sources. This will […]

The Entrepreneurship of The Australian Music Office An entrepreneurial business demonstrating aggressive growth in Australia and in global markets is the Australian Music Office.  Since advancements in the internet led to a viral flux in music piracy in the late 90’s the music industry has met with much opposition.   For a while the decline […]

 The Foundation of Modern Western Music The music of the Renaissance was essentially the beginning of all modern musical thought- the first to truly integrate various forms of harmony with definite structure. The music provided rapid and significant advancements in harmony within western music, evolving from the parallel lines of Ars Nova and culminating in […]