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Written and directed by Michael McGowan and based on a true story, [4] the film stars James Cromwell as Craig Morrison, a farmer in rural St. Martins, New Brunswick who battles a government bureaucrat (Jonathan Potts) for the right to build a new house for his ailing wife Irene (Geneviève Bujold) when their existing home no longer suits her ...
A backstory, background story, background, or legend is a set of events invented for a plot, preceding and leading up to that plot. In acting, it is the history of the character before the drama begins, and is created during the actor's preparation. [1] [2] These terms are also used in espionage.
Microsoft Photo Story is a free application that allows users to create a visual story (show and tell presentation) from their digital photos. [1] The software uses the Ken Burns Effect on digital photos and allows adding narration, effects, transitions and background music to create a Windows Media Video movie file with pan and zoom effects.
W hen the celebrated Brazilian author Marcelo Paiva started writing his 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), he wanted to record his family history as his mother, Eunice Paiva, started ...
A film still (sometimes called a publicity still or a production still) is a photograph, taken on or off the set of a movie or television program during production. These photographs are also taken in formal studio settings and venues of opportunity such as film stars' homes, film debut events, and commercial settings.
Perhaps the best known narrative still image film is Chris Marker's 1962 film La Jetée, which was the inspiration for the 1995 film 12 Monkeys. [1] In narrative filmmaking, the vast majority of still image films are short films. Many student films are still image films, and the making of these films is a requirement in some film school courses.
The first known freeze frame was in director Alfred Hitchcock's 1928 film Champagne. [1]An early use of the freeze frame in classic Hollywood cinema was Frank Capra's 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life where the first appearance of the adult George Bailey (played by James Stewart) on-screen is shown as a freeze frame.
The Hand that First Held Mine is a novel by British author Maggie O'Farrell, published in 2010 by Headline Review.. The book is a literary fiction that juxtaposes two seemingly unrelated narratives: one set in 1950s London following an ambitious young woman named Lexie Sinclair, who finds her way from rural Devon to the centre of postwar Soho's burgeoning art scene, and another in the present ...