... in contextual factors, such as purpose, as well as similarities between some of the topics mentioned and the styles used when describing Paris. Text A, the 'Paris City Guide' is what it says, an informative guide highlighting the Narrators most loved features and attractions of Parisian culture ... pronouns like 'I' when sharing information, making each opinion sound more factual and less like an actual opinion. This is completely different to Text B, which offers a more personal, wholly opinionated account from the first person point of view of Anna. Using many personal accou...

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... way rather than just writing about it to their audience. We will explore the differences as well as the similarities between the composing process for an alphabetic text between my CDA essay and multimodal text. We will also look at the challenges encountered while composing and the value of multimodal composing. There are similarities as well as differences between a CDA essay and ... multimodal text. Some of the similarities involved would be things such as both a CDA essay and multimodal text include a written part to it. Even though the multimodal text required a presentation that i...

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... also illustrate the acting methodology. Consequently, King Richard III & Looking for Richard are connected through their purpose & individual context, which offer an enhanced understanding and enrichment of each text. The characterization of Richard is a universal feature of both texts. Richard is evidently a key character and ultimately the crucial link connecting King Richard III & Looking for Richard ... composers to effectively create and convey their representations of the characters and settings, thereby developing their ideas and reflections of societal values. Pacino's choice of ...

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... idea to boost their Omega 3 intake by consuming the product, considering it contains 25% of the recommended daily intake. These statistics are within the text box titled "Do you get enough Omega 3", this is a key question making them think to themselves and realise that they probably do not ... antioxidants. It is also to inform women that Omega 3 fats are essential for their wellbeing. The use of the word 'women' throughout the text reassures the target demographic that all of the information is aimed at them. The author of the Australian Good Food magazine uses a range of effectiv...

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... individual's or group's viewing, hearing, reading, listening of a culture product or products within communicative action: "An audience ... can be thought of as a number of people who are exposed to a particular text. They can be in the same place (as in a theater or at a football game) or widely scattered, in their homes, as in the case of audiences for radio programs and ... media would not exist: »Texts need audiences in order to realise their potential for meaning. So a text does not have a single meaning but rather a range of possibilities which are defined by both the text and by...

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... them as years after returning home they were recaptured and once again escaped and made the long journey home. Similarly to Rabbit Proof Fence, Journeys over land and sea, a written text, is also about physical journey. It is factual and informative, much like Rabbit Proof Fence which is a true story of the stolen generations. However, Journeys over land and ... sea is much more structured, dealing with the reasons for journey, rather than the physical journey itself, however through the text it creates visions of hardship experienced whilst travelling throughout the world, such as deal...

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... them as years after returning home they were recaptured and once again escaped and made the long journey home. Similarly to Rabbit Proof Fence, Journeys over land and sea, a written text, is also about physical journey. It is factual and informative, much like Rabbit Proof Fence which is a true story of the stolen generations. However, Journeys over land and ... sea is much more structured, dealing with the reasons for journey, rather than the physical journey itself, however through the text it creates visions of hardship experienced whilst travelling throughout the world, such as deal...

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... lovers through taking their struggles as seriously as they take themselves. This was a choice that clearly was an outgrowth of being in my early twenties, and while I would approach the text extremely differently were I to direct it now, I feel confident in the fact that this youthful, and admittedly simplistic approach, greatly served the cause of helping younger, less sophisticated audience members ... , and the comedic sexual perversions therein seemed edgy and dirty to a contemporary audience of young adults. Ironically, I was able to manufacture the presumable reaction from Shakespe...

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How has the composer of the contemporary text used the earlier text to say something new?" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, written in the 1960s by playwright Tom Stoppard, is a transforation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Stoppard effectively relocates Shakespeare's play to the 1960s ... Shakespeare's most famous play. The themes of Man's ability to take action, as well as Destiny and Death in Hamlet, are maintained in Stoppard's play, but he brings into the text an awareness and understanding of his society, and through these themes, explores different values that were inherent in the 1960...

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... Must Die"". In developing the transformation I took the differences and similarities between the two societies into consideration: the changes in values in issues, the relevance of the setting in the text, characterisation and the difference in use and existence of language and techniques. Living in Han's world would be in total contrast to living in Romeo's. In this modern society money ... and bombs, as opposed to the use of swords in ""Romeo and Juliet"". This change reflects that my audience requires a greater amount of action and suspense to feel satisfaction with a text. It also d...

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... , who are immediately drawn to discovering what new direction can be taken. However, these advantages can inversely be to a considerable disadvantage. Those with an utmost respect for the original literary text can find the adaptation too different from their ideals and reject it all together. For some reason, such criticisms tend to revolve primarily around adaptation from literature to cinema. Different ... same sort of attention also is because they are so different. For the most part they don't claim to have a perfect or very close adaptation of the literary text. They use the text a...

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... products. Covergirl employs popular celebrities such as Queen Latifah to promote their products so that the audience will want to use the same makeup as celebrities they may admire. The text in Covergirls advertisement also contributes to the effectiveness of the advertisement. The name of the company, Covergirl, shown in big, bold, green letters is the same color as the eye ... the consumers. The target audience of this ad is women striving to be beautiful and those who admire celebrities such as Queen Latifah and notice her flawlessness. The image and text help enforce the effectivene...

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... the harsh Australian bush to the evolving Australian city but this indeed is not the case. We must take a step back from the year 1955 to recognise Betty Roland's revolutionary text The Touch of Silk, which was written 27 years prior. The Touch of Silk showcases the lives of an assortment of characters that are situated in the inhospitable landscape of ... uses Jeanne, a war wife brought back from Paris, as a symbol of the increase in multiculturalism in Australia and the contrast of opinions between the bush and city. Even though the text supposedly celebrates the Australian way of lif...

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The purpose of this assignment was to create a performance focused on voice work and phsical theatre, We were required to work practically as part of a group towards a performance of the text Agamemnon by Steven Berkoff. Steven Berkoff is a well known playwright born in England 3rd August 1937. He is well known for his greek mythology, in which he uses very descriptive ... appropriate character for the performance. It was also helpful as I had background information into Steven Berkoff's life and work. We worked in a large group of eleven, we first discussed the text and then made decisions ...

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... to live. The essay overall is not effective, despite presenting a pretty interesting theory about "Unnatural Disasters", which I had never read before. The poor word choices and the flow of the text make the essay hard to follow and sometimes distracting, if there is one positive from the essay it would be the pictures taken by Chris Jordan as this brings the ... ...

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... of an ignorant society, this causes the audience to question their potential ignorance towards societal issues. Fosse utilises techniques such as lighting, music, and cinematography to highlight themes in the text, such as social ignorance, responsibility, facade, and for the particular historical context the Nazi infiltration into German culture. Additionally, the use of characterisation and stylised costumes make the characters relatable ... ...

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The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a meta-theatre, in which the overcoming of an order ... ...

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... play however the ending of each act allows the audience to fully feel the hysteria. By incorporating changes of key themes and ideas as well as using links throughout the text and a variety of dramatic techniques towards the end of each act, Miller is able to leave the audience with a sense of this madness. The ways in which he reflects the ... ...

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... Shakespeare's most famous play. The themes of Man's ability to take action, as well as Destiny and Death in Hamlet, are maintained in Stoppard's play, but he brings into the text an awareness and understanding of his society, and through these themes, explores different values that were inherent in the 1960s. Man's ability to take action is an individual's willingness to ... ...

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... into the person being demonstrated as can be seen in Stanislavsky techniques, but be critically objective in their demonstration of the role. Events should be shown without emotion and the text alienated by reporting on events rather than performing them. (www. ; Dramarama 12, 2002: 93) Rather than feeling empathy for the characters, the audience should be inspired to change the evils ... ...

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... ' may suggest that he has finalised his decision, and he is certain that he is going to take this path. However, this is not the case. Later on in the text, he may make a statement as if it has been finalised, yet go on to reconsider his actions. In the soliloquy, he initially claims that he will follow this path, then ... ...

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... break down. Thus, these two readings of the play, taken from two different points in history reveal how social and political context can shape very different interpretations of the one text. When King Lear was originally written, most audiences would have interpreted it through an Elizabethan perspective. The Elizabethan society believed very strongly in social order and structure. Everything in life ... ...

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