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What is Audience Positioning?

2013-10-14 13:38:50 UTC

- Audiences enjoy films when they 'involved' in them.

- When you analyse a film for Media Studies, you have to look at the techniques the director uses in order to ‘draw’ the audience into it

- When you are actually hooked into a film’s story, it is as if you actually have your own position inside it.

Audience Positioning

2013-10-14 14:02:19 UTC

POV (Point of View) Shots

2013-10-14 14:03:12 UTC

- The camera adopts the position of a character within the film.
- This can ‘over-the-shoulder’, looking at whatever the character is looking at, or a shot from the point-of-view of the character.

- This can make the viewer of the shot feel like they're more part of the story.

- This is useful because it puts the viewer in the position of the character (in their shoes) and when they experience strong emotions the viewer is more likely to feel it when taking that person’s POV.

Reaction Shots

2013-10-14 14:13:27 UTC

- The camera moves to an extreme close up of a character’s face to show their REACTION to something that has happened

Insert Shots

2013-10-14 14:18:57 UTC

- This technique gives the viewer extra/privileged information that one or more characters may not yet know.
- For example, like a split screen, with two characters in two different places.
- The viewer knows what’s happening to them at that time but the character’s themselves don’t have that information.