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24 Oct 10 How to Write a Movie Review?

If you think you are a movie addict and comprehend the art of movie making, reviewing movies could be a good career option for you. A good sense of characterization, aesthetics, exposure to global films, understanding of art and music, storytelling could make you a genius movie reviewer.

Here are some guidelines for movie reviewing.

Watch a lot of films

Watch as many films as you can, irrespective of their, genre, language, origin, time, country. Even if the film is repulsive, watch it. Seeing bad will only make you realize the worth of good ones and appreciate with open heart. So enjoy. While you watch them, also critically analyze them in your mind. Think how it could be better.

Analyze the movie plot

Storyline is the actual hero of a film. A bad story can even ruin magic of huge stars in it. Critically watch its story, how it unfolds, where it twists, how it makes the unexpected happen, how it teases audience and where it reaches. Was the story new or quite old? Was it well connected or had many loopholes? Was it boring or exciting?

Music

Music is soul of a movie. It can be a song, or a background track. It can be vocal or instrumental. Learn about music. Realize how music sets mood of a movie and can silently carve an emotion. How good was the singer or the lyrics – analyze all.

Cinematography

One most important part of a movie is its cinematography; the way camera has captured moments and how aesthetically it’s done makes the difference between a Tom, Dick and Harry with a genius film maker. Critically observe cinematography.

Acting

A good script can also see a pre-matured death, because of poor acting of its actors. Analyze each expression of the actor. What he or she lacks? What is his or her strength? Did the actors get along well on scene?

Ending

Immediately after the movie, analyze how you feel. Sad, happy, scared, nostalgic, humble, kind, loved – what are you feeling? Every movie leaves with a feeling stirred behind. At times a movie is not just entertaining but also leaves with a lesson behind. Was the ending abrupt or well laid and though out?

Once you have written in detail, give it a grade on the basis of your take on it ranging from A+ to F- or 5 star marks to 1 star mark. Remember to be frank. Don’t think about how others will react or what others think. Write as per your own judgment, which should be logical and not biased.

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17 Apr 10 Best-Kept Secret Twitter Tips for Job Search (Part 8)

Since the last post, we are talking about etiquette on twitter and how it can affect the chances of your getting a decent job. Taking the discussion from where we left in the last post, I will be sharing some more twitter tips that will help you find a job using twitter. (Click here to read the previous post).

Avoid being too casual

Although twitter started its life as an informal way to say what you are doing, it has become a means of professional communication as well. Like e- mails, tweets are also being taken seriously by the corporate. Hence, you should not be too casual. Talking informally may be okay, but not talking casually. You need to show you are committed to the work assigned to you, and you take every bit of communication seriously.

Avoid being too personal

No one cares what you had for lunch, nor do they care how good or bad is your sex life. Twitter is a personal medium of communication, but it is not that personal to be witness of your bathroom adventures. Keep such sojourns out of your tweets, unless it has something that has never happened to anyone in this world — at least, not in your knowledge.

Profanity must be avoided

No matter how pissed you are with the situation, no one expect you to break down, nor you are expected to talk like a complete jerk. Maintain poise, avoid talking profane, and do not do any act that goes against your professionalism.

Being profane is easy, and that is the reason why so many people are doing so. What is difficult is to control one’s emotion, and one need a steely determination to keep mum when one feels like blasting on the social web.

These etiquettes are not necessary, if you do not care what others think of you, but if your everything depends upon what others are thinking then you must watch your action.

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02 Dec 09 Writing and Power of Metaphor

Metaphor is a powerful tool used by wise orator, astute politicians, seasoned writer, professional bloggers, etc., to persuade audience to a certain way of thinking. If you want to be successful in persuasive copy and/or content writing then you have to master the art of using proper metaphor.

Metaphor as described by Merriam Webster dictionary is:

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.

Read the following two sentences and tell me which one sounds more compelling to you:

He was silent, very silent, and completely motionless.”

“He was as silent and stationary as the dead.”

Of course, the latter one. The former sentence didn’t have the punch required to make us realize how much the person was silent and how much immobile he was, but once we supply the metaphor of dead, everything becomes clear, as we know how silent and motionless a dead person can be.

Metaphor helps us inject emotion in the written words. It helps us make the passage of texts relatable for the reader. The metaphor makes the read feel what has been written. A proper use of metaphor transforms the text making it meaningful for the readers.

Caution

Metaphor is a cultural thing. A wrongly used metaphor will push the audience far, far away. Hence, you should be careful in using it in your writing, and understand the cultural background of the users before infusing a metaphor in your writing.

A metaphor that works well in India may or may not produce the same result in Brazil. Culture plays an important role in it. If you are in doubt, use neutral metaphor. Like the one I have used in above example. No matter where you go, what cultural background you have the dead will be silent and stationary. Similarly, sky in the moonless night will be dark, stuff out of refrigerator will be cold, mid summer’s afternoon will be unbearably hot, etc.

Do not walk the cultural line while using metaphor if you are not sure.

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