“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.” ThinkingKnowsShowsPayAttentionHappenedDemandIntelligentEntertainmentPay AttentionViewers Author:Victor Garber
“I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more.” LooksPayAttentionComplexesPhotographerPay AttentionTake TimeViewersEmphasis Author:Stephen Shore
“My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."” SongPayAttentionPay AttentionThemeViewers Author:Anne Sweeney
“You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.” FirstsHardAttentionSceneCreatorCreditStrikesOpeningZoneViewersGrabbingBond Movie Author:Claude Lelouch
“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.” WorldNeedsMayShowsAttentionDemandHappeningsPhotographVersionsViewersPosing Author:Fred Ritchin
“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.” ShouldHeartEndsStoriesAbleFilmPowerfulAttentionAudienceSuccessfulMiddleEmotionalIntellectualNarrativeDramaticCaptureViewersArcsProtagonistsBeginning Middle And End Author:Julia Bacha