Horror films aim to elicit emotional reactions from viewers by tapping into fears and revulsions. Common elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, and serial killers. The genre has evolved significantly from early silent films to incorporate new technologies and social concerns. Modern horror films continue exploring prevalent fears but present them in innovative ways to keep audiences engaged who enjoy being scared and seeking thrills and escapism.
The Horror Genre An Overview - visit my site www.subversive-horror-films.comjontowlson
A brief history of the horror film by Jon Towlson, the author of Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (McFarland & Co, 2014)
The Horror Genre An Overview - visit my site www.subversive-horror-films.comjontowlson
A brief history of the horror film by Jon Towlson, the author of Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (McFarland & Co, 2014)
An overview of some of the central conceits of the horror film - done for work with IB & A Level Film students. Many thanks to Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc from whose book 'Horror Films' (Kamera Books) this is adapted. Stay Scared!
Energy-efficient data centers: Exploiting knowledge about application and res...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Presentation by Jose M. Moya at the IEEE Region 8 SB & GOLD Congress (25 – 29 July, 2012).
The current techniques for data center energy optimization, based on
efficiency metrics like PUE, pPUE, ERE, DCcE, etc., do not take into
account the static and dynamic characteristics of the applications and
resources (computing and cooling). However, the knowledge about the
current state of the data center, the past history, the resource
characteristics, and the characteristics of the jobs to be executed
can be used very effectively to guide decision-making at all levels in
the datacenter in order to minimize energy needs. For example, the
allocation of jobs on the available machines, if done taking into
account the most appropriate architecture for each job from the
energetic point of view, and taking into account the type of jobs that
will come later, can reduce energy needs by 30%.
Moreover, to achieve significant reductions in energy consumption of
state-of-the-art data centers (low PUE) is becoming increasingly
important a comprehensive and multi-level approach, ie, acting on
different abstraction levels (scheduling and resource allocation,
application, operating system, compilers and virtual machines,
architecture, and technology), and at different scopes (chip, server,
rack, room, and multi-room).
GreenDisc: A HW/SW energy optimization framework in globally distributed comp...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Marina Zapater attends as speaker to UCAmI 2012.
The main goal of this conference is to provide a discussion forum where researchers and practitioners on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence can meet, disseminate and exchange ideas and problems, identify some of the key issues related to these topics, and explore together possible solutions and future works.
The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Ambient Intelligence then represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments aiming to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities.
Marina has presented our first results within the GreenDISC project, proposing several research lines that target the power optimization in computing systems. In particular, we deal with two novel and highly differentiated computer paradigms that, however, coexist and interact in the current application scenarios: the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the high-performance computing in Data Centers (DC).
For further information, please, refer to the paper:
M. Zapater, J. L. Ayala, and J. M. Moya, “GreenDisc: a HW/SW energy optimization framework in globally distributed computation,” , J. Bravo, D. López-de Ipiña, and F. Moya, Ed., Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 1-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_1
An overview of some of the central conceits of the horror film - done for work with IB & A Level Film students. Many thanks to Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc from whose book 'Horror Films' (Kamera Books) this is adapted. Stay Scared!
Energy-efficient data centers: Exploiting knowledge about application and res...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Presentation by Jose M. Moya at the IEEE Region 8 SB & GOLD Congress (25 – 29 July, 2012).
The current techniques for data center energy optimization, based on
efficiency metrics like PUE, pPUE, ERE, DCcE, etc., do not take into
account the static and dynamic characteristics of the applications and
resources (computing and cooling). However, the knowledge about the
current state of the data center, the past history, the resource
characteristics, and the characteristics of the jobs to be executed
can be used very effectively to guide decision-making at all levels in
the datacenter in order to minimize energy needs. For example, the
allocation of jobs on the available machines, if done taking into
account the most appropriate architecture for each job from the
energetic point of view, and taking into account the type of jobs that
will come later, can reduce energy needs by 30%.
Moreover, to achieve significant reductions in energy consumption of
state-of-the-art data centers (low PUE) is becoming increasingly
important a comprehensive and multi-level approach, ie, acting on
different abstraction levels (scheduling and resource allocation,
application, operating system, compilers and virtual machines,
architecture, and technology), and at different scopes (chip, server,
rack, room, and multi-room).
GreenDisc: A HW/SW energy optimization framework in globally distributed comp...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Marina Zapater attends as speaker to UCAmI 2012.
The main goal of this conference is to provide a discussion forum where researchers and practitioners on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence can meet, disseminate and exchange ideas and problems, identify some of the key issues related to these topics, and explore together possible solutions and future works.
The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Ambient Intelligence then represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments aiming to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities.
Marina has presented our first results within the GreenDISC project, proposing several research lines that target the power optimization in computing systems. In particular, we deal with two novel and highly differentiated computer paradigms that, however, coexist and interact in the current application scenarios: the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the high-performance computing in Data Centers (DC).
For further information, please, refer to the paper:
M. Zapater, J. L. Ayala, and J. M. Moya, “GreenDisc: a HW/SW energy optimization framework in globally distributed computation,” , J. Bravo, D. López-de Ipiña, and F. Moya, Ed., Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 1-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_1
Proactive and reactive thermal optimization techniques to improve energy effi...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Marina Zapater presents her work at the PICATA Workshop. This workshop is intended to know the diverse groups of people recently incorporated thank to PICATA programme of Moncloa campus and who are researching and assessing the clusters.
The Program for International Talent Recruitment (PICATA) has focused on bringing in students and researchers from all over the world, in a determined effort towards internationalization and talent recruitment with different actions. The PICATA Programme offers sholarships for the development of PhD thesis marked by at least two practising doctors from the two associated Universities, the UCM and the UPM, with the possibility of participation by doctors from the other associated Institutions within the context of the Campus Moncloa in these areas: Global Change and New Energies, Materials for the Future, Agri-food and Health, Innovative Medicine, and Heritage.
1. Case Study: Horror Films
History of Horror Films
Horror films are a film genre that is made to make viewers have an emotional
reaction to them; they do this by basing their story lines on these things:
Nightmares (a scary dream)
Hidden fears
Revulsions ( a sense of disgust)
Terror of the unknown
Horror films also have prevalent elements:
Ghosts
Aliens
Vampires
Werewolves
Curses
Satanism
Demons
Vicious animals
Zombies
Serial killers
These are elements that horror movies are based on or include at least one of
these features.
Timeline of Horror films
Date Evolving of horror
1890’s-1920’s The first horror film the Haunted
Castle was made in 1896, the film was
created by George Melies. When I
2. watched the clips of the film I actually
realised how much horror films have
expanded over the years.
1930’s-1940’s This is when Universal pictures
The advance in technology moved
1950’s-1960’s horror films from Gothic to
contemporary concerns, this then
created 2 sub-genres, these are
horror-of-Armageddon and horror-of-
the-demonic.
1970’s-1980’s The film “Rosemary’s Baby” made an
evolution of more horror films
released with occult films in the
1970’s, this is also when the feature
evil children was introduced.
1990’s This when the relationship of fictional
horror and real world horror was
introduced but this was also a bad
century for horror movies this is
because they movies became
predictable and the audiences were
getting bored of them.
2000’s Parodies came in
Involvement of stars
Bruce Campbell is a film and television actor, director, writer, producer and
author. Bruce Campbell is a cult actor; he is most famous for his role as Ashley
J. "Ash" Williams in the Evil Dead series of films, I personally think that Dyer’s
Star theory doesn’t apply to Bruce Campbell this is because even though he is
very successful he isn’t used for
3. Jamie Lee Curtis is known as scream queen because of her starring roles in
horror films earlier on in her career
Robert Barton Englund
Dee Wallace
Why audiences enjoy horror
Audiences enjoy watching horror films because of a range of things, the main
reason why they watch them are to be scared and to see if the movies can
actually scare them, some people actually crave the negative feelings horror
movies give them. Catharsis theory claims that we enjoy being scared.
Another reason is they feel an addiction, most audiences that watch horror
films are pre-registered audiences. For an example the movie Paranormal
Activity 3 (2011) received arecord-setting numbers at their box office (its $54
million was the most ever for a horror film) pre-registered audience were just
waiting for the latest Hollywood bouquet of blood, sweat, and tears, so they
may not realise that they become addicts.
Audiences would watch horror films for entertainment because the excitement
and adrenaline they feel will give them a real thrill. Middle aged and older
adults tend to not watch horror films because of the adrenaline and heart
racing scenes they may not be able to handle it.
Audiences may watch horror films to feel a sense of escapism, Dyers theory of
utopian pleasure backs this up.
Dyer believes that we like to be entertained so we can escape our mundane
lives, I believe that audiences who enjoy watching horror films support this
theory but in an opposite view they escape their lives by watching horror films
that are totally different from their real lives.
Audiences may also watch horror films to get a break from normal narratives
that have predictable endings and similar storylines.
How the genre has developed
4. Horror films have developed plenty, since the first ever horror film Haunted
Castle (1896) created by Georges Melies is a 3 minute short film, which
contained classic pantomime elements and was purposely meant to amuse
people, instead of frightening them, but it is still considered as the first horror
film. If that film was to come out today it would probably be classed as a PG
but back then it was really scary to the audience that’s because of all the
techniques that are used now that has made horror films develop so much.
The first memorable horror film is, Nosferatu (1922) directed by F. W. Murnau,
based on the story of Dracula this film had much more scarier elements than
Haunted Castle this is because Noserfatu came out many year after Haunted
Castle so they were able to add more elements to make the
movie more scary due to the advance in technology.
Horror films seem to adapt to new generations;
Launch of Russian Satellite Resulted in movies about A famous clip from Nosferatu
Sputnik alien invasions
Discovery of nuclear power Lead to films about mutated
animal insects and people
Acceptance of deviant human Allowed the sub-genre
psychology (“Psycho”) thrillers about psychotic
killers to be launched
Horror films still seem to keep the same elements ghosts, monsters, madmen
and demons but they present them in new innovative ways.