“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.” MenWorldArtStillsAgeEnjoyCasesAudienceImpossibleEventsInformationPerformancesMythologyVersionsBurningAppealsImpulseFestivalsFrontiersArt WorldInformation AgeVisibilitySingle StatusBurning Man Author:Philip Auslander
“I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.” I CanImportantUseStuffAudienceInformationCharityFeedback Author:Greg Grunberg
“As Americans we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free thinking and engaged audience.” ThinkingGivingValuesVoiceLeaderRolesAudienceInformationIndependentInstitutionsPressesCirclesJournalistEngagedConsumedFree ThinkingVoiceless Author:Lester Holt
“The audience requires not information but drama.” AudienceInformationDrama Book:On directing film Source: On directing film
“When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesMovingAudienceLaughingInformationEmotionalSittingEdgesSpeedScreensHopefullySeatsThreadWeepingSitting On The Edge Author:Salman Rushdie
“The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.” GivingFeelsStoriesAudienceIssuesJourneyInformationOutlinesCommunicators Author:Andy Stanley
“I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.” IfsWantPersonsI CanSometimesAudienceInformationMembersDirectConnectionsScaryI've LearnedGuaranteesGuarantees ThatOperators Author:John Edward
“The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).” TwoAudienceMediaInformationSourceElementsModelsBuiltStrategyConservativeProvokingNever ChangeFeverMistrustIndignationBusiness Models Author:David Frum
“Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.” GivenAudienceShareInformationSellsFinancialBurningFirmDeniedDocumentsFestiveAllegationsBiotechYule Author:Dennis Miller
“Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.” IfsWantGivingWritingCharacterStoriesKidsGamesAudienceInformationAdultsHarderSuspenseBelievableDiscerning Author:Rick Riordan
“The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].” KnowsHas BeensHardFilmAudienceInformationDecadesConsumptionCan NotFilm Music Author:Lucrecia Martel
“I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience member's thoughts about it, or better yet, their feelings, will be different. Moreover, images contain so much information that one can see things that the next person won't notice. As a result, people will surely think about Coda in dissimilar ways.” PeopleThinkingWayWantPersonsDifferentFeelingsNextResultsCommonAudienceStageInformationMembersChoreographyCommon Things Author:Martine Epoque
“The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.” PeopleTryingProblemActorsSoundAudiencePlansInformationBalanceDialogueCraftsCatching Author:Jack Coleman