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Audience design is a sociolinguistic model formulated by Herb Clark in 1982 and Gregory Murphy [1] and later elaborated by Allan Bell in 1984 [2] which proposes that linguistic style-shifting occurs primarily in response to a speaker's audience. According to this model, speakers adjust their speech primarily towards that of their audience in ...
The Annie Award for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production is an Annie Award awarded annually to the best character designer and introduced in 2002. It rewards the design and look of characters for animated feature films.
A term referring to a fictional character (by whatever name) whose job it is to explain the plot or parts of a plot to other characters and the audience. mood lighting The deliberate use of certain lighting characteristics in a scene or even an entire film in order to provoke a particular state of mind or feeling in the viewer. MOS motion picture
The movie is about how a family begins to unravel after the death of its matriarch as cult ties are revealed, and Variety attributes its low audience grade to the “crime of being more artful ...
Audience theory offers explanations of how people encounter media, how they use it, and how it affects them. Although the concept of an audience predates modern media, [1] most audience theory is concerned with people’s relationship to various forms of media. There is no single theory of audience, but a range of explanatory frameworks.
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary role representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1]
The actor puts themselves in the mindset of the character finding things in common in order to give a more genuine portrayal of the character. Method acting is a range of techniques used to assist acting persons in understanding, relating to and the portrayal of their character(s), as formulated by Lee Strasberg. Strasberg's method is based ...
Its most basic premise is that entertainment users attach an emotion to various characters within a narrative, but this has been expanded to comedy, drama, tragedy, violence, and sports. [2] Although some theorist argue that the similar theories used to explore different forms of entertainment media encompass the same general processes, some ...