Category: Movies

Walt Disney
1. Why has Disney been successful for so long?
2. What did Michael Eisner do to rejuvenate Disney? Specifically, how did he increase net income in his first four years?
3. Has Disney diversified too far in recent years?

1. Analyse how (film/game x) uses animation to engage its audience? (This could have a focus on how the uncanny valley is used – or avoided – , discuss the use of stereotypes or look at how animation is used to portray a particular culture or time period)

2. Analyse one key principle of animating lifeless objects using (film/game x) as an example. (This can NOT be facial expressions)

3. Analyse what using animation can add to the documentary genre using (film/game x) as an example.

4. Analyse the importance of sound for (film/game x) in regards to the animation that is used.

You are asked to write a 2500 word (+ / – 10%) response to a theoretical debate that you can identify in the literature (by ‘literature’ we mean a suitably academic publication, such as Animation Studies or the Animation Journal). You should use one particular film, series, commercial or game that is using animation (in any style, partly or fully, short or feature length) as an example that you use to discuss and provide evidence for within your argument.
In order to make sure that you are not concentrating too much on describing the plot/game-play you should write a synopsis of the film/gameplay and place it in the appendix of your essay – this is not included in the word count. This should NOT be a blurb, but a summary of what happens (so this might include spoilers for people who haven’t seen it).

You need to make sure that your essay question is suitable via a tutorial with Alke.

Examples from previous years have included:

1. Analyse how (film/game x) uses animation to engage its audience? (This could have a focus on how the uncanny valley is used – or avoided – , discuss the use of stereotypes or look at how animation is used to portray a particular culture or time period)

2. Analyse one key principle of animating lifeless objects using (film/game x) as an example. (This can NOT be facial expressions)

3. Analyse what using animation can add to the documentary genre using (film/game x) as an example.

4. Analyse the importance of sound for (film/game x) in regards to the animation that is used.
You could also use the following starting point:

Based on the BAA screenings, identify one trend in contemporary animation and discuss it by putting it into a larger theoretical context using appropriate secondary sources.

For this starting point, you are using the films as starting points, but you will still need to use academic sources to back up what you are saying about the trend you identify!
The essay will need to make use of appropriate secondary sources that need to be properly referenced using in-text citation and a bibliography in the Harvard system of referencing.

An essay without a proper bibliography will fail!

You should also keep in mind that illustrations can be used as evidence and should be used where appropriate.

Here are three questions about the case study, the answer must be first read the case then answers should be based on the case. Do not use any other internet resources, please. Quality and depth of answers to each question
Accuracy in describing the problems/issues. Use concepts and strategic tools to analyze the issues. Provide specific evidence to support your conclusions.
1.Which is greater: the value of Pixar and Disney in an exclusive relationship, or the sum of the value that each could create if they operated independently of one another or were allowed to form relationships with other companies? Why?
2. Assuming that Pixar and Disney are more valuable in an exclusive relationship, can that value be realized through a new contract? Or is common ownership required (i.e., must Disney acquire Pixar)?
3. If Disney does acquire Pixar, how should Bob Iger and his team organize and manage the combined entity? What challenges do you foresee, and how would you meet them?

1.Create a PowerPoint presentation using the template “Movie Character Presentation.”
2.Provide an introduction and background overview of the movie character (client).
3.Assess the client using the “Functional Health Pattern Assessment.”
4.Based on your “observations” and thoughts, document your assessment, providing examples from the movie.
5.Describe any observed or potential cultural, geographic, religious, ethnic, or spiritual considerations of this client.
6.Describe two normal health patterns of the client as well as two abnormal health patterns that you observe, and provide examples.
7.Develop an appropriate nursing diagnosis for the client based on your assessment.
8.Identify and describe three interventions for the client: health promotion, health prevention, and maintenance.
9.Identify at least two possible resources or community services to which you would refer this client and provide rationale for your choices.

Costume pictures have been singled out as a form that appeals particularly to women through the use of dress. Yet they are also some of the most complicated films in terms of their use of fashion to play with time, evoke memory, produce spectacular displays, create new dress codes all while playing with women’s own history. Even as they take liberties with the past, these films represent one of the more complicated manifestations of the use of fashion in film. Concentrating on at least one film of your choice, explore how it establishes the significance of dress and prioritizes the female spectator.

1. Analyze IMAX’s general and industry environments and identify the opportunities and challenges it faces.
2. Discuss IMAX’s business strategy and analyze how IMAX’s resources and capabilities support its business and corporate strategies.
3. Why was IMAX changing its business and corporate strategies? Could IMAX thrive as a niche player that only made large films and systems?
4. Evaluate changes in IMAX’s business and corporate strategies. Have the changes been effective? Could increasing the number of Hollywood movies released in IMAX format dilute the IMAX brand?

Based on the film, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”, discuss how the idea of “Manifest Destiny” is related to the treatment of the Native Americans in the film by the US Government.

FORMAT MLA Style Format Font: Times New Roman, size 12 1 inch margins 3 to 4 pages double spaced I do not want 4 pages of a movie review or plot summary. I have already seen the movie (in fact I own all of them) and I know what happens. Use moments in the movie to prove your thesis, but do not recount the entire film.  Do NOT use the word “I” in your paper.