Rendering №13

Rendering №13

Mike Will Made It is the answer to all your R&B-related queries
The author of the article is Michael Cragg. It was published on 24 May, 2013, in The New York Times. The purpose of the article is to give the readers some information about possible Miley Cyrus' decision to join a famous strip-club.
The writer states that Like a lot of urban producers nowadays, Mike Will Made It – AKA 24-year-old Atlantan Michael Williams – likes to clear up any confusion the listener may have vis-a-vis whose work they're hearing as quickly as possible. 

Then the author asks "who made this beat?". He states that we might be wondering, while enjoying Ciara's langorous newie Body Party. "Mike Will Made It" comes the Auto-Tuned answer within the first 10 seconds.

The author tells us that it's a sonic stamp that's become ever more familiar over the last 18 months, with Williams's forward-thinking productions for the likes of Lil Wayne, Cassie and Rihanna showing that not all modern R&B has to incorporate identikit bass drops and one-finger synth riffs.

Further the writer points out that as with his primary influences, the Neptunes and Timbaland, Miley is not afraid to adapt to who he's working with, whether he's crafting ridiculous bangers for Kanye West (Mercy) or swampy slow jams for Jeremih (773 Love).

Then the writer reports that it's this versatility, alongside a fusion of disparate influences – trap-style drum claps, vintage Prince synth textures, and the exaggerated strings of horror film soundtracks – that's helping Mike define the sound of R&B in 2013.

Further the author states that having landed Miley's first break in 2007, aged just 18, after sending beats to Gucci Mane's A&R, Mike made his mark four years later with the relentlessly aggressive Tupac Back by Meek Mill. From there, he produced hits for 2 Chainz (No Lie) and Juicy J (Bandz A Make Her Dance), while cultivating a close partnership with Auto-Tune aficionado, Future.

The author points out that it's Miley's work with Juicy J and Future that represent the two sides of Mike Will Made It's coin. The popping beats and frenetic drum claps of Bandz A Make Her Dance have been credited with popularising "strip club" rap. It's a claim he's mildly annoyed about, but only because he reckons he's a step ahead of all the other producers he's been bracketed with. "They're not changing the game, they're not trend-setting like I am," he sneered to XXL this year. After all, it was Mike's specific "strip club sound" that Rihanna wanted for her last single Pour It Up.

In conclusion the writer say that Miley's space-age slow jams with Future, meanwhile, have come to define his more recent output and have led to his run of incredible productions for female vocalists. Lifting Ciara out of the dumper with the brilliance of the aforementioned Body Party, he's also created the yearning swirl of Do You Know What You Have? for Brandy, as well as Kelly Rowland's ludicrous cunnilingus anthem, Kisses Down Low. Rumours suggest he's also producing a number of songs for Miley Cyrus's could-actually-be-amazing forthcoming R&B album. With a new rap-free EP, #FuckVerses, in the works, his move into pop's bosom is almost complete.

To my mind, this article is really worth reading. Having read about a possible Miley Cyrus' decision to join a famous strip-club, I was really impressed. It is really great by the fact that rumours suggest he's also producing a number of songs for Miley Cyrus's could-actually-be-amazing forthcoming R&B album. 

REVIEW 3

Day for Night

Day for Night is a 1973 French film directed by François Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film is named as Day for Night, which is the equivalent English expression.

The Plot: The directer named Ferran shooted a sentimental film called "I want you to meet Pamela". The filming was lasted for 6 weeks. During this time, members of shooting, having different characters, expectations and the certain places in society, had numerous conflicts. They were Alexandre, former diva Séverine, young heart-throb Alphonse and a British actress, Julie Baker who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy leading to her marriage with her much older doctor. The conflicts had different cause including love, jealousy, fatigue and stress. However all these people were united by a common passion - a cinema, and for the sake of making this film they were ready to make any sacrifice.

So, the film “Day For Night” shows a good example of making a movie. All conflicts, the failure of the actors and other studio peripeteias are in reliable hands of the director, the owner of the creative process.

It is a very interesting detail that the Director of the film in the movie “Day For Night” is François Truffaut himself. We contemplate a director in a role of director. It can tell us about real methods of Truffaut's work.

What is more, I like most of all the scene with a cat and also Jacqueline Bisset's playing. She is gorgeous. Truffaut openly mocks of himself. And also I have a great desire to visit the set, as I still think that everything is shot in a real interiors.

To my mind “Day For Night” is one of the best Truffaut's films. It is practically plotless, impressionistic, light and optional. This movie, showing the horrific shooting, is filmed with tenderness and kind irony to all what is happening. This is a very rare characteristic for the works in such genre, where satire and sarcasm dominate.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 45-50 chapters

Dashwood family learns that Lucy and Edward get married. When Mrs. Dashwood sees how sad is Elinor, she finally realizes how strong her daughter's feelings for Edward, and regrets that she didn't pay enough attention on her misfortune. However, the next day Edward arrives and tells himself that it is his brother Robert married Lucy, but not he. Edward says he was trapped with Lucy, as he stoped to love her for a long time ago, and she broke her engagement to marry Robert, who becomes very rich now. Edward proposes marriage to Elinor and she accepts it. In the end Edward becomes reconciled with his mother, who gives him 10 thousand of pounds. It also establishes, as far as possible, the relationship with Fanny. Elinor and Edward get married and move to the parish house in Delaford.

Meanwhile, Willoughby's aunt gives him his part of the inheritance due to his prudent behavior and beneficial marriage. Willoughby understands that a wedding with Marianne may produce the same effect on the old woman, and if he behaved like a gentleman, he may have received love and money.

Over the next two years Mrs.Dashwood, Marianne and Margaret spend most of their time in Delaford. Marianne matures and in the age of nineteen she decides to marry a 37-year-old Colonel Brandon. Despite of the fact that before she considered a marriage to a man, who was older for 20 years, is impossible and repulsive; gratitude and respect which she feels for the Colonel grow into a strong love. Colonel's house is near to the parish where Elinor and Edward live, so Elinor, Marianne and their husbands can often see each other. The sisters continue to maintain close ties with their mother and Margaret at Barton Cottage, and the families live happily ever after.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 37-44 chapters

Brandon offeres to Edward his living not for the purpose of the marriage to Lucy, it isn't enough to support a family, but it can help him to remain aswim until he finds something better. Elinor meets a foppish Edward's brother, Robert, and is shocked by the fact that he has no remorse toward his brother, who was deprived of a livelihood.

Sisters end their staying in London and go back to Barton and stay at a country estate of Mrs.Jennings's son-in-law Mr.Palmer in Cleveland. There Marianne, mourning the loss of Willoughby, disparages toward her health and eventually she is dangerously ill. Get knowing about it, Willoughby suddenly comes and tells Elinor that he is truly in love with Marianne. However since his aunt had deprived him of his inheritance because of his behavior toward Miss Williams, he decided to get marry the wealthy Miss Grey.

Elinor tells Marianne about his visit. Marianne avows that while she loves Willoughby, she can't be happy with a dissolute father of an illegitimate child, even if he had not left her. She also realizes that her illness was caused by her grief, exaggerated sensibility, and if she dies, it is akin to suicide. She decides to change for the better and learn from her sister to have restraint and common sense.

RENDERING 12

Best Actor in a Spritzing Role

The author of the article is Bee-Shyuan Chang. It was published on 24 April, 2013, in The New York Times. The article provides the information about actor as cologne spokesman.

In the beginning of the article the author says that Eric Bana, who is known for rugged, physically impressive characters with a sensitive side, now decided to be a cologne spokesman. Eric himself convinces that he has never done a campaign before, but he always wanted to smell nice for his co-stars. The author adds that models of campaigns are increasingly being replaced by recognizable Hollywood personalities.

Further Chang tells that actors have historically been harder to woo. According to the text it was quite difficult for an actor to admit that they take care of themselves until the rise of the metrosexual and increasingly sophisticated grooming products for the furrier sex. Moreover it is very profitably because footage from television commercials and mini-movies can be cut or repurposed for YouTube and print ads.

Chang also points out that appearance is also very important. If an actor doesn’t look right, it can really hurt you. So we see that it’s a very important decision who to choose for the brand. What is more the author says that the actor should have sex appeal — even an unkempt, shaggy sex appeal like Mr. Pitt’s.

To sum up Chang gives the reader opinion of the fashion director at Esquire, Nick Sullivan, who suspects a lot of wives want their husbands to smell better and are buying the fragrances for them. And also he adds that the fact that they used Brad Pitt for a women’s fragrance says something.

To my mind man are more presentable then women. Men have a greater cachet in beauty than they have had for a long time. So, I'm sure it is a good experience for famous brands to use popular male actors, sex-idols in their advertisings.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 29-36 chapters

The truth about Willoughby's character leaks out. Colonel Brandon tells Elinor that Willoughby enticed one of his pupils, 15-years-old Eliza Williams, and abandoned her when she became pregnant. Marianne reminds him Eliza's mother. Brandon was in love with this woman, whose life was ruined because of an unhappy marriage with his brother.

Fanny Dashwood, who also be in London in winter, reject her husband's proposal to invite Dashwood sisters to live with them. Instead she invites Steele sisters, whom she has never seen. Lucy is very proud of it and boasts to Elinor that Fanny's mother, Mrs. Ferrars, favours her. When Miss Anne, Lucy's sister, sees how much Fanny and her mother love Lucy, she tells them about the secret engagement of Lucy and Edward. When Mrs. Ferrars gets to know about it, she turn Steele sisters out of doors in a fit of hysteria and demands Edward to break the engagement under the threat of disinheriting. Edward consideres that it would be dirtily to break with Lucy. He refuses and loses his part of inheritance in favor of his younger brother Robert. Elinor and Marianne sympathize with him, their high opinion about Edward becomes stronger, because he is as good as his words and he is willing to get marry a woman he doesn't love. Edward is going to enter the Church.

Colonel Brandon, who knows from his personal experience how difficult it is, when people don't recognize your love, expressed sympathy in the conversation with Elinor for Edward's unfortunate life circumstances and asks her to to transmit a proposal for Mr. Ferrars. He offeres to Edward his living at the Delaford rectory as a means of supporting himself. Edward is astonished and deeply moved by the Colonel's generosity. 

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 20-28 chapters

Edward Ferrars visits Dashwood in their cottage in Barton Park, but looks miserable and depressed. Elinor is afraid that he is feels nothing towards her. However, she didn't allow anyone to see her in grief. She feels herself obliged to her mother and sisters, as they worship upon Edward and firmly believe in his love for Elinor.

Anne and Lucy Steele, a rather forward and uneducated Lady Middleton's cousins, arrive in Barton Park. Sir John jokingly tells Lucy that Elinor is in love with Edward. This encourages her to tell about her secret engagement with Edward, which took place four years ago. Although firstly Elinor blames Edward mentally, later she realizes that Edward was engaged to Lucy when he was very young and naive and perhaps he made a mistake. She thinks and hopes that Edward doesn't love Lucy, but he isn't able to hurt or humiliate her breaking a promise. Elinor hides her disappointment and strives to convince Lucy that she has no feelings towards Edward. It is very difficult because she sees that Lucy doesn't love Edward and will make him miserable. Lucy tells Elinor that Mrs. Ferrars will be certainly against this marriage, and they plan to wait until her death, if Edward will not find another way to support his family without parental help.

Elinor and Marianne spend the winter in Mrs. Jennings'es house in London. Marianne writes many letters to Willoughby, confirming sister's suspicions about their engagement, as only a engaged young people can write so openly. However, Marianne's letters remain unanswered. During a meeting at the ball he treats her with a cold neglect. Later he answers for Marianne's letter, and returns all her letters, all evidence of love, including a lock of hair, reporting about his engagement to Miss Gray, a woman of high social status with great fortune of 50 million pounds. Marianne is in depression and avows Elinor that she have never been engaged to Willoughby, but she loved him, and he convinced her that he loved her too.