Audience theory

Picture this. The year is 1954 and you are looking to see a movie. Movie commercials on television are scarce, and you do not know what to see. So what do you do to help decide what to watch? You look at a movie poster in a theatre lobby. The movie poster for The Creature from the Black Lagoon has many different elements that help to create an image of what the actual cinematic feature may be about. By using variations of light and dark colors, the poster adds depth that creates feelings of fear…

Players as one of the most influential theatre groups in America,”(Black) Robert K. Sarlos has deemed the company “the single most fruitful American theatre prior to the Second World War: it introduced more native playwrights, had a greater impact on audiences and critics, and a longer life than any other similar group.” (Black) “We started out to write and act American plays,” said Mr. Cook. We aimed to write about people we knew and reflect truly the life that we knew. The writers were…

Charlie, played by Zac Efron, lives with his single mother, Claire (Kim Basinger), and his little brother Sam, who is played by Charlie Tahan. Early on in the film, the audience can already interpret that the two brothers are very close. Charlie and Sam both…

Pain. It is something that is unavoidable and something that everyone goes through in life. A beautiful piece of artwork is created and shared when a personal struggle of pain is used to inspire relate to others who can relate to the overwhelming pains of growing up. This is exactly what Shane Koyczan did in his piece titled “To This Day”. Shane shares and creates and strapping imagery in the minds of his viewers and listeners by sharing personal life struggles with pain, paired with the…

The Mercedes Benz’ “Close to Our Hearts” advertisement utilizes professional rhetoric to alter it’s audience’s mood with auditory and visual cues in order to evoke emotions and thoughts that tie the company and audience together in hopes that the audience may be persuaded to purchase a new vehicle. Because this is a marketing strategy by Mercedes Benz to connect with consumers, it is fairly obvious that the speaker in this commercial is the brand themselves. With Mercedes propagation of this…

stronger closure. The audience never connects with Tom and his family because they are introduced too late. The dialogue has strengths and weaknesses. Overall, the voices reflect the personalities of the characters, but on the other hand the dialogue is rather straightforward. It could be sharper with more subtext. There’s some repetitive dialogue mainly between Annie and Andrew. She complains about him and he responds. Overall, the tension feels mild because the audience doesn’t know what to…

and are easily recognized by the audiences due to their many recurrences in particular traditional literary. They are not individuals but types based on social prejudices and clichés. They are mostly comfortable aims for parody. In the anonymous Everyman play, the stock characters are kindred, cousins, Fellowship, discretion, and beauty. These characters are portrayed as giving moralistic advice to the main protagonist. They are alive on their right, and the audience would not have a hard time…

It was Oprah herself, whom had an entire TV segment called, Daring Greatly: Why Vulnerability Is Your Greatest Strength. It was on the episode where Dr. Brené Brown says,” You can't have true courage unless you open yourself up to vulnerability” (: http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/daring-greatly-why-vulnerability-is-your-greatest-strength-video#ixzz4fT8jbNzC). Where the topic of discussion was, why being open, sharing your feelings, and having hard conversations, is indeed the only…

Cinematography is what makes films whole. It is basically another important aspect of telling the films story and giving meaning to the characters and setting they are in. It is meant to keep the viewer on the edge of their seats or to allow them to feel some sort of emotion for the characters in the film. I noticed this quite a bit in the film Double Indemnity. I think that cinematography is significant in this film because it gives meaning to it's environment and characters while allowing the…

Once the story of Belle Gibson was released to the public, I was hooked on the idea of what it could become if it was used as the base of a story. The Australian’s article on the Belle Gibson story provided a strong stimulus, as it discussed the tales of her so-called terminal illness. What made the article interesting in my opinion was Gibson’s reasoning to why she lied about her terminal illness, and how it lead to a lot of drama amongst people. It occurred to me that the same situation could…