Audience Positioning

Audience Positioning

1. Technical and audience codes

   • 24 hours in A&E uses fly on the wall camera angles and therefore will position the audience in a priviledged spectator position
   • Strictly Come Dancing uses tracking shots which follow the dancers around the stage therefore allwoing the audience to access every bit of information that it available e.g facial expressions, body language, reactions etc
   • modern family uses fly on the wall camera angles as well as shakey camera shots which are all conventional of the genre and therefore position the audience to view this family as exclusive
   • audiences are placed in the perspective of Ron through camera angles and audio as POV shots are used and the use of a high pitched non diegetic sound which is uncomfortable and therefore places the audience in the position of pain that Ron feels
   • skyfall positions its audience in a priviledged spectator position as high camera angles are being used throughout the opening scene especially
     • audiences are also positioned to be within close proxemity of the characters as once Bond has been 'shot' the camera pans and zooms in on M and therefore gives the effect that the audience are in the same room as the characters and therefore able to build up an emoional connection.
   • Frozen doesn't do a lot to break this fourth wall and position its audience in any other way other than the 'viewer'. this is due to Disney being in the fantasy genre and therefore will try to attempt to keep this fourth wall rigid.
     • However that being said, Disney does position its audience in a priviledged spectator position through the high camera angles used in the let it go sequence and also the audience are placed in a vulnerable position in the scene when Hans revels himself as the Villain to Anna

2. Narrative

   • Both Frozen and Skyfall have restictive narratives where everything is resolved in the end.
     • Frozen's narrative is multi-stranded as you have the plot of Anna trying to save both Elsa and Arrendale as well as Elsa's road to independence and Hans plot to take over Arendale
   • Dallas Buyers Club uses manipulation of space and time t create an emotional connection between the audience and the character of Ron. Time frames are used in order to create a linear structure that is needed for the audience to understand the plot. This positions the audience in a...

3. language and mode of address