Audience measurement

create, one must be willing to play with the unknown. To do what is dangerous and expose himself or herself truthfully for the sake of play. As an actor, there must always be this curiosity to play with fire and do what is unexpected not only to the audience member, but the actor as well. This risk is the most difficult challenge to any artist for they must harness courage within themselves to go into the unknown and reap the benefits of their adventure. This idea of risk is expressed similarly…

to portray a message? Yuri Herrera wrote to portray his message to his audience. He uses many different types of methods to get it out to them. Some people may find his work difficult to understand but with the right mind others see it as a way to change the world we live in. In Herrera’s short story “The Objects”, he writes about a rat and a louse in a world of classification. He uses these characters to tell his audience about the truths of this cruel and unjust world we live in today. In…

The 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University written and spoken by Steve Job’s was a speech about the things he’d learn when being close to death and the things he valued in life after that. He delivered the speech describing that his near death experience taught him the importance of his life and made him learn to take more risks. He advocated that life is too short to turn down opportunities because it is a risk factor in life. We should always have the mentality of “What would I do if…

The floundering of the character Charlie Kaufman is only interesting, because the audience knows the actual Charlie Kaufman at one point was stuck on how to write a film only to finally come to a conclusion. He must have, because the film is finished, it is being watched, it must have an ending. Another layer to the world is added through…

for H.A.I.L.: honesty, authenticity, integrity and love. As an analogy, Julian uses tools in a toolbox that represents how you can take advantage of your voice to convey a point, and to entice audiences. The tools were as listed: register, timbre, prosody, pace, pitch, and volume. Julian then asks the audience to stand up, and to warm up their voice by: putting your arms up, deep breath in, sighing out, warming up your lips, warming up your tongue, and performing the siren method to prep…

in this scene. It forces the audience to think about Celia and why she is missing. The next transition takes place during a close up of Paul playing a song to Celia and discussing what Jackie’s dreams were as a teenager and then transitions to young Jackie lip syncing to the same song Paul and Celia were listening to. This forces the audience to witness Paul’s past as he relives it. These sudden cuts leaves the audience with a sense of mystery and questions the audience what do they really know…

responses. But what an essay does, that a video can’t, is that it allows the audience to interpret the content in their own way. Videos tend to be very direct, this sometimes loses the audience’s interest and can even bore them. Therefore, in order to keep the viewer’s curiosity , the length of the project should be limited to a more appropriate time span. Being that it is a film, there is the opportunity to give the audience visual aids on how exactly things went down, and this allows the use…

Romeo + Juliet: a summary Imagine that you are to explain the main plot and other interesting details of the movie Romeo + Juliet to a person that you do not know very well. This means that we can be a bit informal in our language, but not our grammar and punctuation. The summary should be around 300 - 400 words, Ariel and 1.5 spacing The summary should include: Film title. Plot: what happens in the film? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy enough to follow? Is it believable?…

Theatre is something that can transform the lives, beliefs, and ideas of many people. Whether it be a small local theatre performance or a Broadway musical, it will impact each and every audience member in some way. Theatre can be controversial, but that makes it generates discussion and brings new issues to light. Controversy causes people to discuss topics and issues in ways they never have before. By having one controversial piece of performance art or one controversial moment in a play can…

In Anton Chekhov's 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, a Russian family who is used to a life of riches begin to experience the hardships of poverty. Due to an extreme amount of carelessness and selfishness, the mother of the estate Lyubov Andreevna Ranvskaya loses the funds that have been allowing her to keep her family in a comfortable position financially. Throughout the play, Chekhov uses many items to represent symbolism, such as the cherry orchard itself to represent the golden age of…