Peter Gabriel´s test correction and video

             Peter Gabriel´s covert artwork of "Don´t give up "(1986)

                                                           
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For the test correction of the part 2 click here and for the part 3 click here

Barton Fink and the Filmmaking technique

Barton Fink (1991)

Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows(John Meadows), tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.

The coen brothers :

Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen^[ (born September 21, 1957) known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films include Blood Simple, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit. The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes.

John Turturro:

John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing(1989), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Quiz Show (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and the Transformers film series. He has appeared in over sixty films, and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee.

John Goodman :

John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his role as Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne (1988–1997) for which he won a Best Actor Golden Globe Award in 1993, and for providing the voice of Sully in Monsters, Inc. As a film actor, he has frequently collaborated with the Coen Brothers, including in Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

Filmmaking Technique :

YouTube video made by a senior-year Darwin High School student called Curtis Brownjohn whose video production project demonstrates a variety of camera techniques including shots, angles, framing, movement, focus, white balance, composition, lighting and other experiments, as well as editing effects including animation, blue/green screen, keying, colour adjusting, cloning, slow-motion, image effects, transitions and sound editing

                                                                 

R.E.M // Everyday is yours to win

  This song,"Every day is yours to win" is from the album "Collapse into now".

                                                                  Short biography of R.E.M

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia , formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's unclear vocals. R.E.M. released its first single, "Radio Free Europe", in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone. The single was followed by the Chronic Town EP in 1982, the band's first release on I.R.S. Records. In 1983, the group released its critically acclaimed debut album, Murmur, and built its reputation over the next few years through subsequent releases, constant touring, and the support of college radio. Following years of underground success, R.E.M. achieved a mainstream hit in 1987 with the single "The One I Love". The group signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988, and began to espouse political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide.

By the early 1990s, when alternative rock began to experience broad mainstream success, R.E.M. was viewed by subsequent acts such as Nirvana and Pavement as a pioneer of the genre and released its two most commercially successful albums, Out of Time (1991) and Automatic for the People (1992), which veered from the band's established sound. R.E.M.'s 1994 release, Monster, was a return to a more rock-oriented sound. The band began its first tour in six years to support the album; the tour was marred by medical emergencies suffered by three band members. In 1996, R.E.M. re-signed with Warner Bros. for a reported US$80 million, at the time the most expensive recording contract in history. The following year, Bill Berry left the band, while Buck, Mills, and Stipe continued the group as a trio. Through some changes in musical style, the band continued its career into the next decade with mixed critical and commercial success. In 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. R.E.M. disbanded in September 2011, announcing the split on its website.

                     

                                                                                 Two contrasting reviews

I ) The negative one : 

An ep's worth of merely decent material (Discoverer, All the Best, Oh my Heart, Alligator) does not a good or even average album make.  The lyrics are vapid and self conscious and we have heard many of these arrangements done before, except done more convincingly, with more energy, and with far more meaning.  This band has nothing to say anymore, which would still make for a pleasant pop album if R.E.M. remembered to bring the hooks, the riffs, or even memorable or emotive lyrics.  This record, as it stands, just feels completely empty.   

Accelerate showed a reinvigorated band getting back to what they do best.  After hearing Collapse Into Now it is clear that Accelerate was really just R.E.M.'s last gasp of air disguised as a creative rebirth.  No reason to "hang it up" at this point as they are still selling records and people still show up to watch them play but to think that they will do anything meaningful or build/expand on their past body of work at this point is setting yourself up for disappointment.  Expect safe, bland, and emotionally detached rehashes of past glories from this point on.  R.E.M. has released "bad" records in the past (see Up, Around the Sun, etc.) but they have never been this formulaic; a true parody of past work.

II) The positive one:

After few listens I think it will be everything I ever hoped for. The songs have a quite good balance between the fast "Accelerate-tracks" and the usual acoustic numbers. The playing is pretty straight but I love the fact that Stipe has taken his lyrics and singing to a new kind of direction. Something that is direct yet naive. Realistic but still impressionistic. They are irritating but in a beautiful way. Old man doing silly things because he can but I never doubt his intelligence. Hard to choose a favourite song from this album because there are so many. It Happened Today might be the one. There isn´t any tracks I would take away. They all have their place.

I´m thinking hard if I need to squeeze half a point or a full point away from this rating. Because the music feels a bit safe and Stipe is, well, I don´t know exactly what. Thing is, I have listened to this quite a lot, this is intelligent, well done craftmanship and I don´t skip a song. Extra mention to beautiful graphics and booklet. Just the way R.E.M. graphics are with lot of stripes this time.

Personnally,i don´t like this song because this type of music its not one of my favorites. I find that the lyrics aren´t good,because, for me,they haven´t a particular sense,and,when you listen to this song, the rythm is quite monotonus,with only a not so good guitar and the drummer play all the 3:30 minutes the same slow and mediocre rythm.And,definitely, the use of electronical sounds and distorsion is ,for me, only a way to hide the not exceptional voice and causes havoc in the quality of the song, personnaly I don´t like it at all.

The meaning of the video it´s not so easy to get.I have saw that every person that appears in the video have an "special" character that makes them different from the norm,and, from my point of view , the meaning of the video is that everyone is a hero and he can "win" despite their difference , difference that does not only different, but also heroes , in this sense , I am completely agree, everyone has to be himself ,because the difference between people does the variety of the human genre.

Homework 25/09/2012

This cartoon of STANTS (I found it on internet) shows a scene where a white dressed man has given an iphone to a kid with an american flag printed in his t-shirt .The kid takes the iphone and he throw it to a mountain of electronic devices meanwhile he says:"Ok,I´m bored what´s next?!!!".
This cartoon is an explicit critic to the american consumerism ,the mountain of devices ,where we can found TV´s,consoles and pc´s,a lot of it,all rejected by the kid(america)because there are another new product.This phenomene is the consequence of the fast developpement and the competitiveness of the international electronical enterprises those who make to a very rapid pace devices that make the previous one obsolete,and the anxious user buys a device behind other one not to remain obsolete,and the machine continues turning.
The name of the cartoon,"iAmerica" is a critic,in my opinion,of the base of the American economy ,the eyes opened as plates is an allusion to the frantic pace of consumerism of the american user,who only wants more and more with no stop what manages to be ridiculous like the importance that gives to it the society ,where the mode of the iphone or ipods it can have relevancy on your social reputation .
Personnaly I don´t understand the way of thinking of the persons that only thinks of buying the near device of apple or windows,since it is a real "way of life",an entire culture has appeared who only turns around this,its a none sense,a culture can´t be based on the purchase of different products meanwhile you can be reading or thinking on general,but that is the consumerism,his target is that situation ,and,sadly it is very expanded on the modern youth.

Our generation and the nexts have to fight this culture that destroys the consciences and the point of view of so many young persons and adults.

Homework

This image is a draw made by chapette and published in the new york Herald tribune.The scene takes place in the Canne´s festival when a fan with an internet image printed in his T-shirt asks for an autograph to an actor or a director and his wife or girlfriend who put an angry face to the fan,probably because the fan says:"I love your movies,I´ve pirated them all" ,sentences that is a explicit allusion to the internet piracy.In the background we can see an horde of fans and paparazzis near to the red carpet,carpet that caracterice the glamour of the world of cinema and music.
This image is a caricature who critics the internet piracy and wants to show how ridiculous is the piracy of music and films

New blog

Hi,

I have create this new blog because I forget the password and the username of the other one and i can´t use it.In this new blog I desire to post my english work and sometimes a free post with the music or the things that I like and I want to show to everyone .For this time I want to post a song that I love so much and it´s a song that everyones knows and will enjoy it.

I find this group special because the song that they wrote have no sense aparently,because the person who are listenning to this song has to find the sense for himself,and the sense of the music of this group has a different sense for each person