Make up five sentences using the given phrases.
To shoot/ to act/ to come out/ to remark a film/ to adapt a novel for the screen.
Vocabulary
Producer – продюсер
Film director – режиссер фильма
Art director – художник-постановщик
Camera-man – оператор
Script writer – сценарист
Animator – художник-мультипликатор
Costume designer – художник по костюмам
Discuss these statements.
The names of producers and directors are well-known. But the art-director’s, costume-designer’s names are not so known to the public. It means that they work less or their job is not so important.
The film begins with the script writer.
The animator is not as significant as film director.
What factor is priority for you when you choose a film for watching? Isn’t it a world-famous director?
The work of costume designer is quite easy, because the choice of the costumes can’t be defined as complicated task.
ART
Read and translate the text. Can we say that graffiti is a genre of art? Explain your attitude.
American Graffiti
Until relatively recently, graffiti was considered to be an example of anti-social behavior, the work of vandals, nowadays, many of those “vandals” are treated as respected artists, and some of them have made it in the world of business. Sue Clarke reports.
New Yorkers used to see the graffiti on the walls of poor neighborhoods and subways trains as something menacing and an example of urban decay. The scrawled names and slogans were seen as unsightly and aggressive, the work of vandals seeking to express their identities or even make a political point. Up to the 1970s, most New Yorkers hated graffiti, considering it as an eyesore that was illegal and punishable by fines.
Since those days, graffiti has changed a lot and it is no longer found only in the subway and the poor ghetto areas of the city. Nowadays, it has the status of “street art” and you get graffiti in places where you wouldn’t expect to – in advertisements, on clothes, on toys, and even on the Wall Street Journal’s official website! In the early 1980s, there was a real craze for graffiti art and the sophisticated Manhattan art world had displays of street art in its galleries. The trend was short-lived – until the arrival of hip-hop music in the late 80s.
In her book, Subway Art, Martha Cooper says “Graffiti came back with hip-hop music and people are now appreciating it for its style, which they couldn’t back then, because they couldn’t get beyond the vandalism thing.” Hip-hop was originally black ghetto music, sung by young African Americans from the poor, run-down districts of American cities. When it suddenly got to the top of the American music charts, hip-hop culture was spread, bringing graffiti with it.
Today companies are starting to realize the appeal of graffiti in advertising. Kel Rodriguez, who used to spray New York subway trains, was the artist chosen to design the Wall Street Journal’s website and it is obviously done in graffiti-style. “Some of that graffiti feeling, that energy, sort of got in there,” Rodriguez explained.
M
any
of this new wave of artists give lectures on developments in their
art. Lee Quinones is having a lot of success in Europe and feels that
European galleries and museums are more open to his art form. “They
want to support an artist as he develops,” comments Quinones, who
can get up to $10,000 for his paintings. Indeed, the Groninger Museum
in Holland is one of the few museums in the world that displays and
recognizes graffiti as an art form.
A
nother
artist, Blade, has his own website devoted only to the world of
graffiti. This website has a “merchandise page” where Blade sells
things with his own original designs all over the world –
everything from baseball caps to yo-yos! Leonard McGurr, a street
artist for 25 years, went from painting subway trains to designing
and marketing graffiti-inspired clothes for young people. “Graffiti
has been a story of survival,” he says. “There’s a way to
benefit from your work without spoiling public property.”