Emerson thesis -- Visual and media arts
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Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Swamp Pizza, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_reine_kelsey.pdf
Overview
"Concrete's cooking in Opelousas, Louisiana and JOSELINE (16) desperately wants to forget about her troubles at home with a negligent mother and have the best Summer of her life with her two best-friends RODGER (15) and MIRACLE JOY (15). After what seems like a typical day at work cooking pizzas and selling beer to the trashy locals at the “great value” amusement park, the three friends get an alert that the park is on lockdown. Through the walkie talkie communication system they are alerted...
Dates:
2022
Sweet Jane, 1999
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Overview
Drama about a man's failed attempt to right the wrongs he has done.
Dates:
1999
Sweetener, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_thomas_brianna.pdf
Overview
"SWEETENER is an hour-long limited series that focuses on themes of self-awareness, familial bonds, and corruption. This story blends the darkness of its deadly subject matter with humor to create an irreverent and cheeky take on the popular crime-solving genre. Taking inspiration from many of today's procedural dramas, legal thrillers, and women-led comedies, this script combines elements from all of those genres and wraps them into a comedic murder-mystery." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Swellfoot rivalry, 2007
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This comedic piece is the most recent chapter in the life-long rivalry between a son and his overly competitive father; the stakes are raised when a young woman enters the picture. -- abstract.
Dates:
2007
Swimming pool waves, 2000
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2000
Swimming with Stones, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_yang_amber.pdf
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"Swimming with Stones is a narrative short film about the subject of grief. The story follows a woman's journey going through grief and reliving the memories on the anniversary of her daughter's death. She comes to a realization that unloading the weight doesn't mean leaving the memories behind. This film will have a heavy emphasis on cinematography. Through that, the goal of this film is to reach anyone who has or is currently experiencing the process of grief. It is to offer some insight...
Dates:
2022
Swirl a magic world, 2004
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Swirl A Magic World is an original children's story combined with interactive, creative activities for girls aged six to eleven.
Dates:
2004
TaiL, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_lee_yichien.pdf
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"TaiL is an 18 mins body horror-comedy about a wacky woman's journey to self-discovery with a penis stuck inside her vagina." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Taking Back Magic, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_heatherington_patricia.pdf
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"'Taking Back Magic' is a supernatural drama that uses corrupted witch hunters to examine how far both jealousy and hatred of the misunderstood can go, and that by partnering with the "other" can work through these issues. After learning about a group of witch hunters taking witches' magic for their own personal use, one witch hunter seeks out a witch to help stop them. Magic provides a visual way to tell this story and brings back a reminder of past witch hunts, that have come to mean an...
Dates:
2021
Talk of The Town "Pilot" and First Gens "Pilot", 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_assaf_bianca.pdf
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"For my MFA Thesis project, I have submitted two pilots. Talk of the Town is a 60-minute dramedy set in the fictional town Hillborn in 1840's Hampshire, England. Adeline Thompson is a thief and con artist posing as the long-lost relative of a great lord. However, the arrival of an old friend risks her exposure. However, Oliver Wright, an unsophisticated young man on the verges of society who aspires to be a serious journalist, may just shift her fortune. Together they will pen an anonymous...
Dates:
2021
Talking To The Wind, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_sawant_akshaya.pdf
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"Talking To The Wind is a feature length documentary about the aftermath of a three year long man-made drought in Maharashtra, India that resulted in mass suicides - numbers reaching 1100 per year. Using a poetic, essayistic and observational approach, the film unfolds the reasons behind these farmer suicides - decades of exploitation of groundwater for short term gains and societal pressures of marrying off their daughters with huge amounts of dowry. Intimate and eyeopening, Talking To The...
Dates:
2019
Tapped Out, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_herr_melody.pdf
Overview
"Inspired by real-life events, TAPPED OUT, is a drama series designed for cable or streaming platforms. About navigating the seasons of our lives with grace and humor, it explores themes common to my body of work, including family, mental illness, and suicide. With a diverse cast, it dives into the often-overlooked effects on family members after a loved one's suicide attempt, and illuminates the chaos that ensues. TAPPED OUT is a human perspective about living with and navigating mental...
Dates:
2022
Tara, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_silver_julia.pdf
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"TARA is a feature-length film designed for streaming platforms that tells the story of a young woman who will do anything to get back into the limelight. Set in the year 2010, this Coming-of-Age Comedy follows self-centered Tara, who has recently been kicked off a reality television show after committing a horrendous act. Forced to move back home with her sympathetic but overbearing stepmother, Tara sets her sights on making over a lonely, unwitting teenager in the hopes of becoming the...
Dates:
2023
Tarnished gold, 2010
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Tarnished Gold is a 49 minute romantic drama about discovering ones' path to happiness in early adulthood. The struggle for identity occurs through an angel-turned-musician's experience on earth and a young woman caught between starting a traditional fami
Dates:
2010
Technological graveyard American's e-cycling industry, 2004
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Overview
This piece is a short documentary on America's 2004 e-cycling industry.
Dates:
2004
Teen Nun and Shady Heights, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_ortiz_edlin.pdf
Overview
"Thirteen-year-old Betty Garcia has just moved to Anaheim, CA. It's Betty's first day at the local Catholic school, to Betty's chagrin -- she's Agnostic. Betty is determined to dislike everything about school, but when she meets and quickly develops a crush on ultra-cool Roxana, things start looking up. After Roxana almost catches Betty staring at her, Betty hides behind her textbook and reads about Sor Juana De La Cruz, a 17th century nun who defied the church clergy in her teens. Soon...
Dates:
2021
Tender, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_versyp_tandy.pdf
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"This feature-length dark comedy uses the tropes of the thriller genre to both satirize and honor the institution of marriage. The script also uses elements of melodrama and camp to speak directly to a queer audience, providing catharsis for emotional trauma specific to the LGBT community. This project is the culmination of a larger body of work aimed at transforming my episodic, autobiographical writing style into marketable, highly structured screenwriting—without losing my voice or...
Dates:
2020
Terrorismo, 2010
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Identifier: vm_2010summer_cayamcela_juan.pdf
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"Terrorismo is an animated graphic narrative about three friends who decide that they can no longer live a life of poverty and discrimination. They decide that their only course of action is to gain the attention of terrorist in hopes of joining him in his crusade of violent social change." -- Abstract
Dates:
2010
Tethers: On the Five Stages of Grief, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_chiu_chin_huen_maria.pdf
Overview
"A narrative balletic pas de deux outlines the five stages of grief through the story of a girl who is left by the love of her life. When she experiences this loss, emotions overwhelm her as she uses the medium of dance to convey her heartbreak, her denial of the circumstances, her bargaining to get back what was once hers, her anger over the perceived betrayal, her depression during her darkest moments, and finally her acceptance of everything that is and will be. The story is depicted in a...
Dates:
2020
Thank You I'm Sorry I Love You Goodbye, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_lounds_dominic.pdf
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"What is home after immigration and displacement? Family after loss? Memory after dementia? Using interviews with members of my family, this thesis is an attempt to answer those questions for my benefit as well as to prompt viewers to consider such questions for themselves. It is a personal documentary that centers immigrant experiences because it is a narrative that comes from my Jamaican family and uses their words in their voices. The experience exists entirely in virtual reality and so...
Dates:
2022