Audience theory

“One person's craziness is another person's reality”-Tim Burton. All of his movies has some kind of outcome to the audience to make the stories amazing. Burton uses low key lighting and nondiegetic sound in order to create a feeling of reclusiveness from the main characters to the society in his viewers; this is important because Burton wants us to visualize that even when you are very isolated from everyone else, you can still have a joyous life to get other people to like you. In many of his…

rhetorical strategies or devices to express her message about child labor to her audience. The rhetorical strategies or devices she used were: inclusive language, emotional language, and sarcasm. Kelley uses inclusive language in her speech. Her use of inclusive language was to acknowledge that it wasn't just her problem, but it was also our problem as a whole. The point of her to include this device was to show the audience that we are responsible…

Challenge surrounds Caleb (Domhall Gleeson) in the fictional sci-fi movie Ex Machina. He is invited to the secluded home of Nathan (Oscar Issac), an IT god, to conduct a Turing test with a robot, Ava (Alicia Vikander). But as Caleb gets to know her better, he starts to trust Ava, potentially being lured in her unscrupulous plans. Will he listen to Ava who expresses her feelings of seclusion, loneliness and hopes of integrating with human life, or will he listen to Nathan who has the power to…

in particular the lighting, can subconsciously lead the audience to get cold feet as a character enters a strange new place. Several key features during this scene was the presentation characters of with respect to light. Since the whole scene occurs at night, not much light is present so Hitchcock had to be precise on how to effectively use the key light to convey the narrative form. One specific example that created shock among the audience is when the bedside lamp revealed that Bruno was…

I went to the Spring Choral concert. I had never been to an actual choir concert, but my school choir often performed at pep rallies and had other performances throughout the year so I had a basic idea of what was going to happen. When I arrived I was surprised by how full the concert was. The first concert that I had gone to was probably only a third to a half full, but this one was completely packed from top to bottom. It’s a very different atmosphere with a full house. Everyone seemed really…

emotion and atmosphere of the play. If the play has more shocking elements it would make sense for the audience to be compelled to mentally ask “what will happen next.” If a performance is more about feeling the story that that question is not necessarily upon the minds of the audience. From the play I attended, I felt as though a live performance provides more of a personal connection between the audience and the actors, you feel as though you are a fly on the wall and actually experiencing the…

Hoot, directed by Wil Shriner, is an exciting kid-friendly movie that is certainly not boring and is also funny, entertaining, and an all around great movie. Roy Eberhardt moves to Florida from Montana. He then becomes really good friends with Bea and Mullet Fingers. They discover baby owls that are living in the ground at a nearby construction site. There is only one problem; there is a new pancake house being built at the same place. In the end, together they save the owls although it causes a…

Yojimbo, directed by Akira Kurosawa tells a captivated Japanese story about a wondering samurai, named Sanjuro who helps a small town get rid of the most troublesome group of gangs by using his cleverness. Kurosawa is known for his composition and movement in his film, but other elements of mise-en-scene is also skillfully. He does a fascinating job with the fighting scene. In the beginning of the scene where a woman and two men are conversing a scheme in a closet, Kurosawa establishes…

herself throughout this whole passage. Mairs first words read “I am a cripple.” This shows her integrity and honesty; her word choice adds character to her tone. She begins explaining her word choice, giving the audience the nation that her motives are unsure. She also tells the audience that she wants people to see her as a “tough customer”, meaning her integrity remains…

Hanes chose the writing method that is more complex and open-ended. She repeatedly presented both sides of every claim, while still trying to direct her readers in the pathway she wanted them to progress towards. Every point made was to engage the audience in using their reasoning and logic to understand exactly how that piece of evidence was tied the overall main…