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Film Studies 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Showscan, Anamorphic Format, Unreliable Narrator

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Western University
Department
Film Studies
Course
Film Studies 1020E
Professor
Peter Brunette

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Realism: describes the extent to which a. Mise-en scene: elements of a movie scene that are put in a position before the film actually begins and are employed in certain ways once it does ex. props, lighting, actors. Features of the image that exist without the camera and the process of filming and editing. Naturalistic: a style of filmmaking emphasizing the similarities between our world and the film world (gladiator) Addressing the camera: artificial theatrical mode of performance. Scenic and atmospheric realism movie creates a truthful picture of society, person or life accuracy in characters and developments in a story recognize sets and settings as evocations of actual places. M-e-s builds atmosphere and connotations: feelings associated with. Expressive mes: mes dimensions are independent of the characters and describe an emotional or spiritual life. Began with early greek theatre around 500 bc -- a place where a community"s religious beliefs and truths could be acted out.

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On the first day of the New Year to get her business started, the owner/photographer of Exquisite Portraits Inc. paid $200 for business cards, $1000 for a listing in Yellow Pages, and $250 for an annual business license. She also leased a professional portrait camera and studio lighting equipment by signing an agreement to pay a monthly lease of $1000 each month for the next twelve months. This lease is ironclad: She must pay for all 12 months and she cannot sublease to anyone else. She rents her office and studio for $1,400 per month which must be paid at the beginning of each month. She does not have a lease on the office/studio, so she can vacate the office/studio at the end of any month should she decide to move to a new location or to go out of business. After she opens the office/studio on the first day of each month, her monthly cost of electricity for lighting the office and running her coffee machine is constant $45 per month, because she always keeps the lights on in the office and drinks the same amount of coffee no matter how many photos she shoots each month. Additional electricity is required for the portrait studio lights, which varies directly with the number of hours the lights are used each month for photo sessions. Last year, before starting this business, the owner of Exquisite Portraits Inc. earned a salary of $5000 per month working at a bank. Answer the following questions about the costs for Exquisite Portraits Inc.:

What are the monthly fixed costs, quasi-fixed costs, and variable costs for Exquisite Portraits Inc.?

If the owner of Exquisite Portraits Inc. wants to close her studio and go out of business at the end of August, identify her sunk costs and avoidable costs.

At the end of August, what role would the sunk cost play in the owner/photographer’s decision to go out of business?

In making her decision to start her own business, would her decision have been more or less difficult to make if sunk costs were zero at Exquisite Portraits? Explain.

The Little Theatre is a nonprofit organization devoted tostaging plays for children. The Theatre has a very small full-timeprofessional administrative staff. Through a special arrangementwith the actors’ union, actors and directors rehearse without payand are paid only for actual performances.

The costs from the current year’splanning budget appear below. The Little Theatre had tentativelyplanned to put on six different productions with a total of 50performances. For example, one of the productions was PeterRabbit, which had a six-week run with three performances oneach weekend.

The Little Theatre
Costs from the Planning Budget
For the Year Ended December 31
Budgeted number ofproductions 6
Budgeted number ofperformances 50
Actors’ anddirectors’ wages $ 105,000
Stagehands’wages 20,500
Ticket boothpersonnel and ushers’ wages 11,500
Scenery, costumes,and props 48,600
Theatre hallrent 35,500
Printedprograms 11,250
Publicity 12,600
Administrativeexpenses 46,000
Total $ 290,950


Some of the costs vary with the numberof productions, some with the number of performances, and some arefixed and depend on neither the number of productions nor thenumber of performances. The costs of scenery, costumes, props, andpublicity vary with the number of productions. It doesn’t make anydifference how many times Peter Rabbit is performed, thecost of the scenery is the same. Likewise, the cost of publicizinga play with posters and radio commercials is the same whether thereare 10, 20, or 30 performances of the play. On the other hand, thewages of the actors, directors, stagehands, ticket booth personnel,and ushers vary with the number of performances. The greater thenumber of performances, the higher the wage costs will be.Similarly, the costs of renting the hall and printing the programswill vary with the number of performances. Administrative expensesare more difficult to pin down, but the best estimate is thatapproximately 70% of the budgeted costs are fixed, 15% depend onthe number of productions staged, and the remaining 15% depend onthe number of performances.

After the beginning of the year, theboard of directors of the Theatre authorized expanding theTheatre’s program to five productions and a total of 54performances. Not surprisingly, actual costs were considerablyhigher than the costs from the planning budget. (Grants from donorsand ticket sales were also correspondingly higher, but are notshown here.) Data concerning the actual costs appear below:

The Little Theatre
Actual Costs
For the Year Ended December 31
Actual number ofproductions 5
Actual number ofperformances 54
Actors’ anddirectors’ wages $ 109,000
Stagehands’wages 22,100
Ticket boothpersonnel and ushers’ wages 13,000
Scenery, costumes,and props 44,900
Theatre hallrent 40,100
Printedprograms 11,700
Publicity 11,600
Administrativeexpenses 44,450
Total $ 296,850
Required:
1.

Prepare a flexible budget for The Little Theatre based on theactual activity of the year.

The Little Theatre
Flexible Budget
For the Year Ended December 31
Actors’and directors’ wages
Stagehands’ wages
Ticketbooth personnel and ushers’ wages
Scenery,costumes, and props
Theatrehall rent
Printedprograms
Publicity
Administrative expenses
Total
2.

Prepare a report for the year that shows the spending variancesfor all expense items. (Indicate the effect of eachvariance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and"None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts aspositive values.)

The Little Theatre
Flexible Budget Performance Report
For the Year Ended December 31
Actual Results Spending Variances Flexible Budget
Actors' and directors'wages $109,000
Stagehands' wages 22,100
Ticket booth personnel andushers' wages 13,000
Scenery, costumes, andprops 44,900
Theatre hall rent 40,100
Printed programs 11,700
Publicity 11,600
Administrative expenses 44,450
Total $296,850

Problem:

The two professional societies representing the students in this class have published the following statements/definitions of sustainability.

From ASCE: ASCE and its members are dedicated to ensuring a sustainable future in which human society has the capacity and opportunity to maintain and improve its quality of life indefinitely, without degrading the quantity, quality or the availability of natural, economic and social resources.

From ASME: Sustainability means engineering products and developing manufacturing processes that do not consume irreplaceable resources. Engineers often apply the term to the design of long-lived products for ease of maintenance under less than ideal conditions. Sustainability is built on recycling, generating more resources, and reducing the pressures of consumption on those resources from population growth and affluence. Sustainability also means economic growth without shortchanging the future.

Your assignment: Compare and contrast the two sustainability statements. What is common between the two statements and what is different? What is missing? How should sustainability be addressed in your organization's Code of Ethics (those are online). As a future professional engineer, write your own definition of sustainability as it applies to your profession.