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Audience Audience actively participate in constructing meaning and collude with the film (suspend their disbelief) Spectatorship Meaning is negotiated in the dynamic relationship between text and audience. Macro Elements Film Active participants seeking: Narrative Meaning Generic Meaning (Expectations) Character Meaning Emotional Release (Catharsis) Structural Organisation (Narrative) Realism (Verisimilitude) Narrative Realism Genre Audience Positioning Influential Factors for Audience: Gender Ethnicity Age Nationality... Ideology Previous Cultural Experiences Situation A film-maker can change the experience the spectator has through a variety of micro and macro techniques. Micro Elements Different audiences experience film in all sorts of different ways for a variety of different reasons. Cinematography Camera Lighting Editing Cutting Transitions Sound Diegetic Non Diegetic Mise-en-scene Costume Props Setting Performance Acting Styles