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What are Documentary Modes? Theory Explained
Posted On February 14, 2022 Staff 0

The film documentary is a genre that typically involves filming an event and its aftermath. Since the invention of cinema, …

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The Evolution of Cinema
Posted On October 10, 2020 Shaquilla Alexander 0

Cinema has come a long way since it first began in the 1800's. Read as we take you through the …

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What is the Universal Structure? The Hero Journey Explained
Posted On August 15, 2020 Staff 0

As is the case with Blockbusters, most of the traditional stories that survived the passage of time in each culture …

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What is Meta-Textual Storytelling?
Posted On August 1, 2020 Paul Laight 0

SPOILERS AHEAD! With the multitude of means of storytelling from video-games, literature, television, plays, songs, poems and of course, cinema, we …

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What is the Hays Code? Hollywood Production Code Explained
Posted On April 6, 2020 Elliot Bloom 0

The Hays Code was a set of rules and guidelines that would police the production of content from major Hollywood …

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Sound Production for Film
Posted On March 22, 2020 Staff 0

Sound in Film is an extremely broad term and can be broken down into a variety of components: dialogue, music, …

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What is German Expressionism?
Posted On February 11, 2020 Staff 0

  The History of German Expressionism Politics in 1910 Germany was highly tumultuous. World War I dominated the country, and most of …

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Stop Motion Animation
Posted On May 13, 2018 Jon Roberts 0

Stop-Motion or Stop-Frame has existed as a form of animation for many years, but it is only more recently, and …

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MGM Studios
Posted On January 28, 2017 Vanessa Rocha 0

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and best known Hollywood studio, next to Fox, Warner Bros, and Universal. It was founded by …

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