Audience

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…

Graduation I looked up the word rite from page 16, paragraph 1 which means “a religious or other solemn ceremony or act” in this case a graduation. It is hard for me to relate to my highschool class as extended family because my class is 500 students strong, with 2000 kids in total in my school. I don’t even know the names of a good deal of them because I have never even met them. I don’t know who they are or even if they do well or not, so calling them extended family is a foreign concept to…

How do we act as a human being in the society? Everyone plays differents roles and act differently to promote or we can say protect ourselves. We can tell that the whole society is a stage and everyone's an actor plays differently in the front stage. George Herbert Mead, a sociologist from the late 1800s, is well known for his theory of the social self, which includes the concepts of 'self,' 'me,' and 'I.' No matter what kind of environment, people always bring a "mask" for themselves to realize…

speech is known as a commencement speaker, who is often a famous and elite person as well as would like to share their life experience, values and advice during the speech. This is a platform for speaker to say amazing and unlimited things to attract audiences. Bill Gates has stated at a positive and inspirational college commencement address at Harvard University while getting his bachelor degree on 2007. Due to the information and technology limitation when he was young, Bill Gates had no…

the thought of the boys applying to Oxbridge, ‘He sits with his head on the desk, a parody of despair.’ Bennett uses the comedic technique parody both visually and verbally. The boys’ response, quoting the Shakespeare play King Lear, presents the audience with an introduction to the boys’ indisputable, sophisticated sense of humour and ability to cross reference literature and real life…

Advertisements in modern media strive towards not only selling a product, but making it emotionally appealing to the audience as a means to attach the product with desire. This longstanding tactic has been used by big companies, like Apple, to sell medicore products. Advertisement directors have taken notice that smartphones have created this utopia effect on millennials - creating a bubble of comfort in a portal metal box that tells them whatever they want, whenever they want. It creates a cave…

view shots have been used as a great component in both The Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery, 1947) and Black Mirror’s Christmas Special (Otto Bathurst, 2014). Although both films share the same purpose of applying the point of shot, to endow the audience with certain narrative’s perspective in order to arouse pathos on the character(s) or the scene(s), yet the same cinematic technique is used quiet divergently due to the changes of the cinematic editing and the interpretation of the human…

First, the opening scene nicely sets the tone and introduces the audience to the world of snowboarding and the concept of “zero gravity.” However, as the first ten pages continue the events are a bit slow. A lot of time is spent with Cameron, who is then absent from act two. It’s important to have a strong first ten pages. He also breaks up with his girlfriend. This feels a bit cliché,…

When viewing a classical film genre, the narrative will try to hide the fact that it is a film being seen. The film is typically edited in a technique to get the audience to forget many of the editing transitions that actually took place. Compared to a classical film, a postmodern film will stick out and grab the viewers’ attention to itself and its methods of formation. It is a film where anything goes, being one of the main postmodern beliefs. In this analysis, I will compare and contrast two…

answer as to whether she was insane or not was left for the audience to decide. The show, in its entirety, was beautifully crafted and well directed. Every line that needed to be emphasized was and it was not too difficult to follow along and understand the story line. The characters were each well acted and fulfilled their purpose on the stage. Additionally, Mary’s character was well performed and it was easy to sympathize with her as an audience member. Since the play took place in the SAC…