Audience theory

every day. Propaganda uses similar techniques advertisements use to make their products appeal to its targeted audience. In the case of political propaganda, similar techniques are used to make its chosen candidate appeal to its audience. For instance, the advertisement “Hillary Clinton 's 2016 Presidential Campaign Announcement” uses techniques to appeal to the working and middle class audience that want to overcome their financial struggles. Aired on April 12,2015 the adds unstated message…

Hendrik Ibsen portrays the main character, Hedda, as both a sympathetic and an unsympathetic character. She is able to arouse both pity and dislike from the audience. Ibsen is able to do this because he gives her a despicable and manipulative personality, but at the same time he creates a feeling of understanding and empathy for her. The audience pities her because of her shortcomings and her situation. Because of this two sided personality she is a wonderfully complicated character and this…

different films in different genres, there are a whole list of different assumptions that audiences expect from each genre. Based on the fast scene changes of the script, it’s evident that The Departed is a crime drama action film. Since it’s an action film, there are also not many long winded character monologues and all of the characters have short dialogue to keep up with the faster pace of the film and keep the audience engaged. The action starts from the beginning of the selection of the…

Target Audience: The target audience for the Meaghan Paige fashion app would be women 18 to 35 years old who reside within the Philadelphia or surrounding suburban areas that are interested in fashion and design. As well as fashion forward women whose everyday life consist of chic, stylish, and casual wear to fit their ever changing moods. Our audience consists of women who want fast and easy piece clothing that they can transition from day to night with ease. In addition, women who want great…

with the program’s intended and established audience, catered to by the show’s youthful sense of humor, representation of modern dating life, and modern family constructions. These successes were highly valuable in, and likely only catered to as a result of, the increasingly fragmented audience of the post network era causing the networks to rely on audiences with the most spending potential in order to attract advertisers, which are drawn to audiences most able and most likely to spend money on…

Two ideas are forced upon every single person. Taxes and death. Through the movie Stranger Than Fiction the audience follows Harold Crick, ironically an IRS auditor, who is forced to face his own fate. However, these are only the ideas posed on the screen. The underlying message stressed throughout this movie is the idea that time is precious and should not be taken for granted. A main idea that is presented throughout the entire movie is the idea of challenging oneself. This is evident when…

The story of Medea, written by the Greek poet Euripides, is about a woman who goes on a vengeful killing spree, after being scorned by her husband, Jason. Having already killed prior to that her scorn fed her murderous impulses. Her worldview indicates that she prays to the gods/goddess to go unpunished for her sins. She seeks out revenge for those who have caused her pain. As a result, Medea believes that revenge is justified. Medea seeks revenge to justify how her husband Jason has mocked…

Sunset in the Canyon In their poster, Fox Searchlight Pictures uses color, pattern and chunking to appeal to audience’s sense of fear and worry and persuade the audience that buying a ticket for this movie would be very well spent. Generally, this poster focuses on the man in the middle, who is probably the main character on the movie. With the visual elements on this poster, this will attract people who love watching extreme sports because of the man trying to hike across the two very steep…

movies, and other aspects of entertainment, the hero’s journey is not uncommon to the typical reader or moviegoer. The hero’s journey is one of the oldest tools to compose a piece of literature or work, however, it hardly ever fails to strike the audience as entertaining whether it be about a fictional or nonfictional occurrence. The journey to contain evil, both mythologically and realistically, requires sacrifice and courage in the face of fear, demonstrated in The House of Hades and Saving…

Theory of Change, Target Audience I came across this issue when I was in high school. As my grandparents aged they could no longer do the things that they wanted to. Their eyesight was going bad, normal every day movements were getting harder and this resulted in numerous falls. The older my grandparents got the more our family urged them to move into an assisted living community where they could have safety and a sense of freedom again. To this day my grandparents are still living on their own…