Theatre reviews are an integral part of the theatre, without reviews how do audiences know what they should go see and what they should avoid? The two examples of mass media chosen for comparision are two theatre reviews of the current stage musical ‘Dirty Dancing’. I chose to take the reviews from two different reviewers from different websites, Brian Godfrey for Glam Adelaide and Vito Mattarelli for Australian Stage. Glam Adelaide is a website which is dedicated to revewing and writing stories on local south Australian businesses and update their audience with what is happening in Adelaide, and overall supporting tourism for the state. Australian Stage is a national theatre website specialising in reviews for any type of theatre happening
…show more content…
Brian Godfrey does this very simply and puts it before he begins his review, Vito Matterelli puts this information across in a much more integrated way in his first paragraph. In general reviews are kept to an average length of around 450 words, however this may be longer or shorter depending on the type of review. Godfrey’s review was on the smaller side of this word count as it was very general and didn’t give too much away about the show. Mattarelli has a longer review as he critically reviews the performance and talks about technical aspects such as staging and direction choices. Both reviews also uses photographs of the production to appeal to their audiences. These images are often promotional pictures as the reviewer isn’t able to take their own photographs. Both of these reviews manage to follow the conventions of a review well but both do it very …show more content…
These two reviews on the same production, however both writers have very different levels of knowledge about the theatre and different reasoning’s for writing their article. Godfrey does not write for a theatre specific website, glam Adelaide aims to help boost tourism and support local business so that review was written in the hopes that more people would go visit the theatre. Matterellis review for Australian Stage was intended for audiences that know something about theatre and that wanted to read a technical review that looked at important directorial decisions and how it compares to other versions of the production or other shows that are on in the same time period. These two target audiences manage to cover a large portion of society who take an interest in theatre, people who are involved with and are more knowledable about the way theatre works, and those that purely enjoy watching live theatre. Because of this both reviews use slightly different language to appeal to their
Brian Godfrey does this very simply and puts it before he begins his review, Vito Matterelli puts this information across in a much more integrated way in his first paragraph. In general reviews are kept to an average length of around 450 words, however this may be longer or shorter depending on the type of review. Godfrey’s review was on the smaller side of this word count as it was very general and didn’t give too much away about the show. Mattarelli has a longer review as he critically reviews the performance and talks about technical aspects such as staging and direction choices. Both reviews also uses photographs of the production to appeal to their audiences. These images are often promotional pictures as the reviewer isn’t able to take their own photographs. Both of these reviews manage to follow the conventions of a review well but both do it very …show more content…
These two reviews on the same production, however both writers have very different levels of knowledge about the theatre and different reasoning’s for writing their article. Godfrey does not write for a theatre specific website, glam Adelaide aims to help boost tourism and support local business so that review was written in the hopes that more people would go visit the theatre. Matterellis review for Australian Stage was intended for audiences that know something about theatre and that wanted to read a technical review that looked at important directorial decisions and how it compares to other versions of the production or other shows that are on in the same time period. These two target audiences manage to cover a large portion of society who take an interest in theatre, people who are involved with and are more knowledable about the way theatre works, and those that purely enjoy watching live theatre. Because of this both reviews use slightly different language to appeal to their