Audience

the Wall Street readers were there at the tragedy on 9/11, Burke is forcing them to remember what they did during the disaster; while they ran away, the firefighters went in. He is making the audience realize that the first responders risked their own lives to save the people; they were the heroes. The audience will reminisce on how brave the firefighters were, and how worthy they are of this honor at Ground Zero. Additionally, towards the end of the narration, Burke adds a few statistics.…

The audience would look at these adolescences as rude or harming themselves instead of lost or unstable. Andes Martin gives the audience a connotation of how some teenagers are lost and misguided. A connotation is, “an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning”. Andres Martin (2000)…

antithesis] Such as “we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist” which conveys a point simply and concisely though still evoking emotions and mental images from the audience. Antithesis enforces points and contrasts situations, so that they have a stronger effect. Imagery also persuades the audience to imagine what Obama is saying, making it more memorable. “The snow was stained with blood” plays on human’s natural empathy causing sadness or pity in the crowd. Obama, in this…

Theatre is something that can transform the lives, beliefs, and ideas of many people. Whether it be a small local theatre performance or a Broadway musical, it will impact each and every audience member in some way. Theatre can be controversial, but that makes it generates discussion and brings new issues to light. Controversy causes people to discuss topics and issues in ways they never have before. By having one controversial piece of performance art or one controversial moment in a play can…

greeted everyone that walks through the doors. The deacons, or coordinators, led us to seating to wait until the music portion of the service begins. I was led to sit near the middle section of the worship center only six or seven rows back. The audience was not overwhelmingly crowded, but filled the seating areas. The seating covered a lower portion of the building as well as a balcony upstairs which added additional seating options as well as a lighting and lyric display control center. On…

of the scene had a superb use of props and of the stage presented the setting of the story adequately from being on a ship to the jungle and later to an island, the stage was truly amazing. The lighting played an important part, of directing the audience to where to look and gracefully hitting the characters with perfect timing. The multiple lighting colours certainly set the mood the well and scenes were easily seen to be in the past as a remembrance and contrasted from the present. All I can…

discuss the recent shifts in New Zealand broadcast journalism. Furthermore, arguing that although it is transforming, broadcast journalism is still applicable in today’s society. The internet has given rise to inordinate variety in content; thus, audiences for broadcast journalism have been fragmented and changes have had to be made in reception of this (Castells, Parks & Van Der Haak, 2012). Furthermore, the development of digital technologies have lead to convergence of media outlets,…

In recent news Robert Dear attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After entering the Planned Parenthood facility with a gun and opening fire, Dear claimed to be a “baby warrior” as he took the lives of three people while wounding nine (Liss-Schultz). While this is situational irony in itself, society, whether pro-life or pro-choice, banded together to bring justice to Robert Dear. The media shockingly chose to cover this topic in a manner that takes a stance against…

In the theory “Performances” by Erving Goffman utilizes the expression “performance” to allude all the movement of a person before a specific group of people, or onlookers. These specific performances convey impressions to others. People act a certain way with an expectation in controlling the part that they play with the end goal of overseeing others impressions of them. Generally, this happens through the collaboration of the people in their regular life. In these theory, Goffman is basically…

to not only make the film effective but also to target the audience. One example of this is sound, sound is used to target the audience which are urbanites, which are people who live in the city or in urban places. The mostly used genre of sound in this film is grime and hip-hop, these types of genres have been used because this music would be what the audience would listen too, therefore it would attract the audience as they would be able to relate to the music played.…