Business Communication the Topic Will Be How

Business Communication

The topic will be how we can systematically look at how audiences respond to specific cinematic techniques.

Who will be your colleagues when you are in a work environment?

Colleagues will be fellow students in this program. I will need to form a team of film students to run the research I want to run. I want to test viewer reactions to two different kinds of segueway. I propose filming a scene from Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," using two different kinds of segueay: visual fade, and audio overlay. For the visual fade, the scene would fade away. For a visual overlay, the viewers would hear people speaking in the next scene for a second or so before they saw the action, a technique used often in the third Harry Potter film.

What do your colleagues know about your subject?

They are well versed in basic film techniques and know how to use the film techniques to be studied.

Why would your colleagues be interested in your topic?

Often we can only choose what kind of shot to use based on gut instinct. We produce the best film we can and hope the audience will react positively. Some film techniques are used so frequently that viewers don't even notice them, but they can still have an effect on the viewer's opinion of the film.

What do they have to gain from the information you present?