Audience theory

"Say no to guns on college campuses" by Jade Reindl and Jean Cocco, they are trying to get the audience to see that guns shouldn’t be allowed on college campuses or any school campus at all. They also use good backup reasons to support the message they are trying to send, along with credible sources, making the article convincing. The target audience isn't just other school students and academic audiences, but also Non-students because any and everyone can be affected by the issue that is…

commercial use common rhetorical analysis techniques to portray a general message to the watchers. For example, the writers uses pathos in this commercial to play on the watchers emotion and evoke an underlying sadness. Audience…

intentions in the story of a human being trying to rescue their loved ones is bewildering because it makes the audience wonder what they are contributing to society. Graduated from the University of Maine, King dedicated his time to writing horror and science fiction novels, which is an inspiration…

and dance are different kinds of movement, although they both require training and precision. Landay in her article ‘The Mirror of Performance . . .” argues that humans make sense of the world they inhabit through their bodies, therefore what the audiences see performed reflects this, through kinaesthetic empathy. The spatial and psychological space of the cinema auditorium encourages both emotional and motor participation, specifically in relation to the main characters,despite an awareness of…

that, there has been multiple campaigns spreading awareness in hope to reduce the rising issue, however, these advertisements have become virtually ineffective. Each advertisement has become repetitive and unfortunately the redundancy has caused the audience to lose site of the bigger picture. You will never fail to see a drunk driving advertisement result in the someones death, and relay the same over used slogan. That was until Fiat launched their campaign to join the movement and try to…

stop a person in their tracks, preparing them for what is to come. Sound guides the viewer from one scene to the next and creates anticipation. This element is a catalyst for both spatial and temporal dimensions of a scene through diegetic sound, audience awareness, and music. Diegetic sound comes from within the film world—it accompanies the characters and can be heard by both actors and…

Then he goes on to make a more ambitious claim: writer-based prose is sometimes better than reader-based prose. Elbow also goes on to explain how audiences can be inviting or very enabling and inhibiting. This has proven to be true in my own experiences with writing. Specifically, in high school, my English teacher was very strict with grammar and always marked up our papers with her red pen and did…

information to the audience. Through framing, tonality, and speed, the scene has the ability to reach a certain depth because of the different tactics used in cinematography. The cinematography helps bring out the true feelings of the scene by getting audiences to pay attention to certain parts of the scene. Shots and framing help the filmmakers guide audience's attention and it helps bring the story to life. Backlighting and source lighting create an uncanny atmosphere by giving the audience…

mother encounter, along with her own battles with finding her literary voice. What she found in the end was that we all, regardless of native tongue, use many levels to our language, and we shift between those levels, depending on who we perceive our audience to be at any given time. Tan tells us to be more conscious of our different uses of English throughout our lives, in order to focus ourselves on intent instead of complexity. She warns us through events of…

Diegetic sounds are sounds that come from the movement or actions seen on screen or in the world of the movie. Diegetic sounds help draw the viewer into the film so that they think they are actually part of it. In films we hear familiar sounds that we hear every day and we can make a connection to them. The sounds that I will add will make the viewer feel suspense as well as a feeling as though they are actually in the film itself. The first sound I will add is known as an ambient sound. An…