Thursday, 4 September 2008
Hollywood enters the minds of moviegoers
are progressively using technologies such as brain scans to equal inside the minds
of moviegoers.
That alliance promises to do more than just sell
Hollywood's movies to the masses�it may overturn how filmmakers
create movies to begin with.
New York University's Film School has
produced renowned directors ranging from Oliver Stone and Joel Coen to Martin
Scorsese and Spike Lee. But perchance the nearly interesting film development at the
university today is unfolding inside the psychological science department.
"In
the last little Joe years or five years, we used movies in our experiments," said Uri
Hasson, a neuroscientist at NYU, "but we used movies basically to understand
about the mind."
Hasson and other NYU researchers essay how
people's brains well-lighted up piece watching certain movie scenes while fabrication inside a
brain scanning device. Their technology of choice is functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (fMRI), which detects magnetic signals marking changes in
blood flow to different parts of the brain.
Some experiments compare
clinically inauspicious people's responses with sizeable people's responses�for
instance, a TV series directed by Alfred Hitchcock became a useful way to test
anxiety responses.
They power saw a hitting pattern among some plastic film
sequences they used. The Hitchcock sequence caused similar responses among
viewers in more than 65% of the neopallium, or section of the brain that bears
obligation for both perception and thinking.
Sergio Leone's
spaghetti Western
The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly
provoked a similarly substantial response among viewers in 45% of the
neopallium. The similar brain patterns suggest that both Hitchcock and Leone's
films demonstrate a certain tier of control over the experience of viewers.
"You tooshie think about it as control by the director," Hasson explained.
"Hitchcock managed to take each main domain and cause it to respond in a similar
way, so he basically controlled what's going on in the brain."
The
NYU researchers see directors victimisation such techniques to pluck and edit their
movies during production. Is the musical account failing to arouse from viewer's
brains in the climactic view? Change it. People aren't connecting so strongly
to the main character? Maybe it's time to reconsideration the character's lines.
Bob Knight, a neurologist at the University of California-Berkeley
and scientific advisor to Neurofocus, has surveyed people�s responses to
everything from pic trailers to ads that run with television shows. "We bring
people into the testing ground, depending on whichever demographic a company wants
examined," Knight aforementioned. "We evince them corporeal, we wire them up, we put
electrodes on their head, and we precisely quantity where their eyes are looking,
their galvanic skin response and their bosom rate."
Both Hasson and
Knight share a vision of neuroscience playing an ever-bigger role in how movies
are made, and inevitably marketed.
"I think it's a natural
evolution," Knight said. "People we work with prevent asking us to seem at things
at an earlier creative stage."
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Friday, 15 August 2008
Xtina Sings for Trump, Pete Wentz Spins
It's official: Christina Aguilera is a working mom.
Just got word that Xtina has been snagged by Donald Trump to perform by and by this month during a party for his new Trump International Hotel & Tower in Dubai.
Guess Mr. Trump is doing what he canful to get the richie-rich folks of Hollywood interested in his latest
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Reinhard Mey
Artist: Reinhard Mey
Genre(s):
Pop
Folk
Chanson
Discography:
Bunter Hund
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Nanga Parbat
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Klaar Kiming-Live
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Ruem Hart
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Einhandsegler Tournee (LiVE) CD2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Einhandsegler Tournee (LiVE) CD1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Flaschenpost
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Leuchtfeuer
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Zwischen Zurich und Zu Haus - Live (CD2)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
Zwischen Zurich und Zu Haus - Live (CD1)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Ich Liebe Dich
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
Alles Geht!
Year: 1992
Tracks: 13
Mit Lust und Liebe (LiVE) CD2
Year: 1991
Tracks: 14
Mit Lust und Liebe (LiVE) CD1
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Farben
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Mein Apfelbaumchen
Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Starportrait
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
Alleingang
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
Hergestellt in Berlin
Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
Die gro?en Erfolge
Year: 1984
Tracks: 16
Die Zwoelfte
Year: 1983
Tracks: 12
Freundliche Gesichter
Year: 1981
Tracks: 12
Jahreszeiten
Year: 1980
Tracks: 12
Keine Ruhige Minute
Year: 1979
Tracks: 12
Menschenjunges
Year: 1977
Tracks: 10
Ikarus
Year: 1975
Tracks: 12
Wie Vor Jahr und Tag
Year: 1973
Tracks: 12
Mein Achtel Lorbeerblatt
Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Ich Bin aus Jenem Holze
Year: 1971
Tracks: 12
Aus Meinem Tagebuch
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Ankomme Freitag Den 13.
Year: 1969
Tracks: 12
Ich Wollte Wie Orpheus Singen
Year: 1968
Tracks: 16
German liedermacher Reinhard Mey rosiness to prominence in France and Germany as one of the most well-known and beloved singer/songwriters of his generation. He was innate in Berlin on December 21, 1942, and learned how to play the pianoforte and guitar at an former age. His low foray onto the stage came when he united a skiffle group, Les Trois Affamés. His mathematical radical was invited to play a liedermacher festival at Burg Waldeck in 1965, and the gig at last light-emitting crystal rectifier to Les Trois Affamés' first track record care. Mey released his first solo album in 1967, and he dropped out of university in monastic orderliness to pursue music. It was a career that would
Friday, 27 June 2008
Yoomiii
Artist: Yoomiii
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Here We Are
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
German pop chemical group Yoomiii hit the ground linear in spring of 2006. Kristin Siegel, Nina Alexandra Filipp, and Bouchra Nisha Tjon Pon Fong were signed by the Na Klar label, under BMG Berlin. The young ladies were thrown and twisted headlong into a rigorous docket of picture shoots, TV appearances, stage dancing breeding, and infinite interviews with the German teen-oriented compress. Pop star boot camp not only if prepped the offspring performers for the market, simply vice versa as advantageously. By the meter their number 1 individual, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme," hit the airwaves, European younker were already quite conversant with the name Yoomiii. The song debuted on May 6, 2006, at number 14 in Germany, and in the Top Five on Austrian and Swiss charts. The subsequent track record liberation standard a similar reception. Here We Are landed in the Top 20 nationally, faring fifty-fifty better overseas. The ladies' follow-up single, "A Kiss Is All I Miss," exhausted various weeks in the Top 50. Yoomiii rounded out 2006 with a national duty tour and the release of their first DVD, and kicked off 2007 with their off individual "Rhythm method of birth control of Love," whetting appetites throughout the pop-loving earth for their sophomore effort, Countenance the Music Play, which was released May 5, 2007.
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Jerry Hall's wedding dress sells for five times estimated price
LONDON - Sotheby's has sold the short white dress that Jerry Hall wore for her Hindu wedding to Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger 18 years ago.
The British auction house sold the lace dress for 2,420 pounds (almost $5,000) Tuesday to vintage store owner Steven Philip. The amount is five times the estimated price. The wedding dress was sold with a photograph of Hall at her wedding ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, in 1990. Jagger annulled the marriage nine years later.
The money raised goes to a homeless charity.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
Brokeback Mountain to be turned into opera
New York City Opera has commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to write an opera based on Brokeback Mountain, a love story about two US ranch-hands that won three Oscars when it was turned into a movie.
The opera house's spokesman Gerard Mortier said Wuorinen had accepted an invitation to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx's short story. It is slated to premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season.
This would mark New Yorker Wuorinen's second world premiere at City Opera. He also composed Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an adaptation of a Salman Rushdie novel which opened in 2004.
"Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen, 70, said in a statement.
Brokeback Mountain is the story of two men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963 with their complex relationship lasting 20 years.
The story was made into a film in 2005 which won three Oscars.
Late Australian actor Heath Ledger, who died in January this year of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs at the age of 28, was nominated for an Oscar for his role.
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Monday, 2 June 2008
Britney Spears Due Back In Court Today
On the surface, the singer appears to have gone some way towards getting life back on track following her January meltdown which resulted in her father Jamie being awarded conservatorship over her affairs.
Now all the recovering pop wreck has to do is convince a judge that she’s ready to take back control of her life – and turning up to today's hearing will be a good place to start.
"If she wants more freedoms, she'll be there," says a source.
"It's highly unlikely Judge Goetz would sign off on changes to the conservatorship order without being able to look Britney in the eye."
Today is expected to be less about whether Brit is capable of looking after her boys, Sean Preston, 2, and 21-month-old Jayden James, and more about whether she is fit to look after herself.
"It's a lot like the last time she was in court for the custody hearings," a case insider explains to OK!.
"In that case, she had been evaluated by the court to judge her parenting skills. This time, it's about her being able to care for herself."
The singer saw her visitation increased from 9 hours a week to 27 on May 6.
Stay tuned to Entertainmentwise for all the latest updates on today's hearing.