Radio and Television Production

Techniques and Borrowings

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Table 1: The relationship of a performer to his or her audience.

Performer              Audience                Relationship


individual speaker,     assembled group or        direct; performer to
storyteller, or         audience in any           audience
singer                  place

company of players,     assembled audience        direct; in an enclosed
singers, dancers,       in a theatre or           area
or musicians            concert hall

performance by an       assembled audience        remote; through a 
actor or performer      in a motion-picture       photographed and 
recorded on film;       theatre, hall,            projected two-dimensional
factual film with       classroom, or other       image on either a 
commentator             formal place              large or small screen,
                                                  with recorded sound

radio broadcast         dispersed audience,       remote; through a
by an actor,            located mainly in         signal broadcast in
aural performer,        their own homes           sound only
newsreader, or 
commentator

televised               dispersed audience,       remote; through a 
presentation by an      located mainly in         two-dimensional image on
actor, singer,          their own homes           a small screen,
dancer, performer,                                accompanied by sound
or commentator

Source: Britannica On Line

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