“If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.” IfsBelieveStoriesJobsActorsForgetAudienceSeeingHugeInvolvedDirectorsPhotographyWindowScreensDevicesMake Believe Author:Frank Capra
“Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.” PeopleWatchesAudiencePhotographyCatPredatory Author:Dorothea Lange
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.” PeopleGivingMayBookShowsStarsSexDifferencesActingAudienceEgoPhotographyMassMarkResponseCriticsProofInevitableUselessGenreCinemaPlotOriginalityFamiliarityEscapingReviewersPsych Author:Mark Lawson
“I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.” GivingAudienceSubjectsStageDesignPhotographySeductive Author:Taryn Simon
“The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction, the masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.” FeelsWritingHumansCharacterShowsActorsNamesLinesAudienceDirectorsPhotographyConnectionsDepthLayersEpisodesCrewPreciseArtistryKevinHuman Connection Author:Aisha Hinds
“Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.” SilenceAudienceRecordsEffectsBearsSpeechPhotographyPrintedElectrical Author:Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
“And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.” PeopleThinkingFirstsRealSelfUseYoungChallengesAudienceEasierSkillsCreatingPhotographyToolsTechniqueHopefullyDigital Author:Jerry Uelsmann