Audience theory

When Harry Met Sally The film "When Harry Met Sally" is from 1989, throughout the movie the audience is presented with a variety of relationships. Two specific couples that will be analyzed are Sally and Harry, Marie and Jess. Unlike modern films, this movie contains an immense amount of interpersonal communication within the characters. Moreover, two topics that will be covered are is the Social Penetration Model and relational maintenance. The first couple that will be analyzed is Harry…

official perspective, but Televising Terrorism acknowledges that, “some open programmes […] are organised in a very tight manner in order to mobilise the audience behind the alternative perspective” (1983, p. 32). This description fits This Week, as the show offers a controlled reading of the alternative perspective, actively encouraging audience to adopt the perspective by not portraying the government’s official perspective in a favourable light. Examples of this are the way the show uses…

As soon as Miss Claudine positioned herself behind the curtain for a demonstration, Becca stole another glance at Blake’s table. She could almost see him there smiling at her. Before long, the dancers were all back in the dressing room changing. Once in their costumes with their hair and make-up finished, they sat down in the chairs against the wall waiting to be called out on stage. Becca tried blocking out the random conversations going on so she could think about how she felt when first…

Four ways to be direct to the audience with the speech are “strive for naturalness,” “show enthusiasm,” “project a sense of confidence,” and “engage directly with audience members”. “Strive for naturalness” is giving a speech naturally rather than acting with the thought of it being an important conversation. For example, if you have a birth of your child, you are going to tell your parents about it. You don’t want to act it out like it’s a part of a movie scene because it’s not possible. You…

and its variations. The first couple times Dogberry said it, the audience roared and so did I. It lost its effect on me afterward, and during the scene where Leonato takes the men from the Watch, I was annoyed. Dogberry made his exit, came back to say “I am an ass,” and left only to repeat the return thrice more. I understand the director’s decision to add the exits and returns, which are not in the actual play, for a college audience because they added humor and people continued laughing until…

should all multirole to remind the audience that what they are watching is fictional. We also thought that by multi-rolling everybody would get an equal speaking part in the performance. The main character of this piece is a teenage boy named Zac Wainright. We decided to follow the styles of a theatre in education piece by using a stereotype of the kind of person who would take drugs and decided that a teenage boy bets fit this stereotype. Zac is going to show the audience how easily a person…

vicariously. Jay Z’s target audience would however be likely to have aspirations of being a rich businessman and/or artist; giving listeners songs to not just listen to for entertainment, but to rap along to for inspiration (Sullivan, 2003). Similarly, apart from the cultural aspect of this evolving image, it also has the added financial benefit of allowing Jay Z to record more songs with content that is conducive to radio play, and other pop channels with a broad and diverse audience (Jeffries,…

Do you know the difference between Star vs the forces of Evil and Alice through the looking glass. Well even if you don't know you're in luck because I am going to tell you how this movie and tv show are the same but yet different. First we will talk about the setting. The Time Place and what things smell like or look like. Then we will talk about the characters in both of them. Like how some help the main character and how some prefer to be alone. Finally we will talk about how they use their…

Tim Burton: The Wickedly Innocent Director of his Time Society can often view others as “strange” or “unusual” from their own standards. Tim Burton, however, breaks those usual standards to represent the abnormal life of others. Instead, Burton would see and use those extraordinary people to incorporate them into his own films. Burton combines outcast protagonists and fantastical settings to convey the idea that society wrongly teaches people to fear the unknown. One way that Burton shows this…

The play “God's Middle Name”, by Jennifer Overton, features a quick-paced series of vignettes that unflinchingly investigate a mother's experiences living with an autistic son, as she comes to understand the condition and shifts from denial to acceptance. It recounts the true story of Jennifer's family over a span of 10 years, moving from confusion to a life-changing diagnosis, through phases of refusal, resentment, sorrow, dealing and, eventually, acceptance. Through rambling scenes and…