Sunset Boulevard And Singing In The Rain

One movie that comes to mind is Jaws, a movie directed by Steven Spielberg and sound by John Williams. The movie is about a shark that terrorizes a beach in new england, the main character teams up with two other men and tries to fix the problem but they later realise that the shark is bigger than they thought. There is one scene that shows the aspects of music in a perfect way. The scene has become famous because the main character says the line “we're gonna need a bigger boat”. The scene starts out with no music and just relays on dialogue and sound effects. Then, as the main character throws meat into the ocean, the shark appears and when it appears the music bursts out. At this point the music is composed mostly of string instruments that

Singin’ in the Rain is a comedy musical which was released on 11 April 1952 in the United States. The story is about a nostalgic look at Hollywood in the 1920s.It showed a big star’s life. This film also talks about Hollywood’s star system. Hollywood’s Star system is the promotion and marketing of movie stars in Hollywood which started in the 1910s.The pros and cons of Hollywood’s star system which were depicted in Singin’ in the Rain will be discussed.

The film’s main focus largely represents the Hollywood star system to which Norma Desmond is a victim of. The film particularly highlights the fantasy world in which Norma lives in, the world where she is the ‘greatest star’ (Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard, 1950). Sunset Boulevard steps into Norma’s mixed up world where hundreds of photos of herself clutter her crumbling mansion and where she watches herself on screen on a weekly basis. The crumbling and deteriorating mansion could be seen as a metaphor for Norma’s fall from stardom, the collapse of her career.

3) Discuss the growth of the various types of popular music in films from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. Please mention specific films, styles, and composers when you can. (20 points)

Silver linings playbook is written by Matthew Quick, an author Camden New Jersey. This book is a humorous fiction and has a release date of September 2nd, 2008. The book is about a mentally unstable adult who was recently sent home to live with his parents after being in a mental health facility. Pat, the man character, loses everything, his job, his wife, and his family. He is sent there after beating his wives lover almost to death. Although his wife is cheating on him he still will do anything he can to stay with her. Pat loses his job while he is away because this is where both his wife and her lover work. The school where they all work at does not want any of these problems to come into the work place. His father will no longer talk to him because he is ashamed of him, he is disappointed of what he has done. Pat is not the only one with a mental health problem in his family, his father has many outbreaks mostly related to football. He is obsessed with football and when the team he does not want to win wins, he has a habit of breaking things. Although Pat and his family have gone thorough had times there is always a silver lining to be found. That is what Matthew Quick wants to prove with his theme of a silver lining can be found in

use of music, this is done in both films, (The Wizard of Oz and A

All the movies were silent until The Jazz Singer came out in 1927. The next year the first animated sound film produced by Walt Disney came out. It was Steamboat Willie which introduced Mickey Mouse. Other movies in the 1920's were The Gold Rush, The Wizard of Oz, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Phantom of the Opera. About three-quarters of Americans went to the movie theaters every week to go see those movies and others.

Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder’s 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard, is a drama packed with many Implicit ideas and images presented throughout the movie. The setting takes place near Hollywood, California early 1950’s, while the plot duration takes place only a few short months from when Joe Gillis played by William Holden meets Norma Desmond played by Gloria Swanson to when the tragic climatic scene at the end. Within the movie the director of photography is shown when Norma is at Paramount studios and the camera does a panning shot showing different lighting setups, camera angles the director has to work with, and point of view the director him/herself sees when they are shooting a scene. This classic movie produces a realistic depiction, because

I believe that Singin’ In the Rain did a good job at showing the audience the history of filmmaking in 1927. It showed that some actors had to be removed because of their voices. For example, in the movie Lina was a problem when “talkie” movies came out because her voice was not pleasant to listen to. This film showed us that directors had to be creative in the ways they altered sounds, like when Kathy talked for Lina. This is where fooly artists came in and were able to help recreate different sounds and when microphones were needed to get clear sounds in

The motion picture of Singin’ in the Rain was created by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, which was released in 1952. The movie production goes through a big outbreak of three different challenges in the film industry, which are the transition from a silent production to an audio production, how the film making is process, and finally how actors went through a journey to get to Hollywood.

Musicals are usually a production which includes music and comedy. And although there are many musicals that had been made before and after “Singin’ in the Rain”, there is characteristic about the film that stands out, and that is the shift in register. When a musical is created they need to operate on two types of dramatic registers. One of those is the spectacle, and that usually consist of the musical number. The other register is the narrative which is a set of rules that give coherence and consistency to the film.

As a young man, I camped with my father on an island, and we fished from the rocks along the shore of a lake. He told me eventually they would sink through the island floor. I watched an occasional redwing or waterfowl perch for an instance before taking flight only to land again on the rock.

The innovation of The Jazz Singer allows it to hold an important place in film history for being among the first synchronized sound films. It is credited for ending the silent film era and pioneering new and creative ways to tell stories. However, silent films would still be made way into the 1930s, and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) is sometimes described as the last silent film. People are often surprised to learn that The Jazz Singer was not the first film to use sound. 1926’s

Sound was first introduced into film in 1927. Several years later, Fritz Lang’s, M, was released. His film took advantage of this new technology by implementing a complex soundtrack, using this to help drive the story instead of solely relying on the pictures. Further, Lang also introduced a technique termed as “leitmotif” which in short is simply a recurring musical theme associated with something larger. Meanwhile, in 1960, the Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave film, Breathless, was released. This film also cleverly utilized the used of sound by often abruptly switching from a beautiful music score to natural noise from the streets of Paris.

In the infancy of film, movies were silent but not without sound. To make film a more pleasant experience, music was provided to cover up the ambient noise of the projector and help create an agreeable atmosphere, often by the use of a solo piano. (Fischoff, S. (2005)). The musician generally improvised – playing mostly a variety of popular romantic and melodramatic scores of the late nineteenth century (such as William Tell Overture, Ride of the Valkyrie, Les Preludes, etc.) - as long as it accompanied the action/scene or enhanced the mood (for dramatic effect). (“From Scene to Shining Screen: A Short History of Film Music”. para. 1-2. (n.d.)). As film grew in popularity and length, so did the musical accompaniment – adding instruments to the ensemble until even some theaters were housing full orchestras. By the end of the silent era, the industry had completely shifted from the all purpose “improve” music of the solo pianist, to exact musical scores written