How to put on shows

There are many of different ways creative and media practitioners might use show in their work, this can be from doing performances on stage such as stand up and in theaters from on the screen like television and films.

Stand up comedians is a good example of using show to promote their work, as most of there performances are a show, playing to a crow to help promote themselves as a comic

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They start their career performing to smaller venues, reacting with the crowd and basically trying to gain their trust. While I was in New york, i went to see a comedy performance and the Comedy Store there, and this was a lot more of a personal experience then going to massive venues to watch famous comedians like Jimmy Carr, its the start of their careers so they wil

l want gain audiences trust to become popular and famous, this is how comedians u

se show to help promote themselves.

Street performers idea of show is basically there whole act, they use show

to performance on the streets to help gain money, they perform on the streets to entertain people and gain a sort of fame on the streets, there is a street performer in Cambridge who dresses up like statues, and every time i go past he is there pretty much every day just stand

ing still, at first i thought this was quite interesting, but i think audiences will get quite bored, in Cambridge there are only a few but in places like Spain, there are many performances just on one street which gets repetitive.

Using cinemas to display films is a great example of show, using audiences reactions to gauge what people think about the films, a good example of new and recently types of cinema is the use of 3D in some recent films, for example in the hit film Avatar, some experie

nces are better in the cinema then on your DvD player at home and this film is a good example of this, i personally thought that Avatar was alot better when i went to see this film at the cinema in full 3D, it gave the maximum experience and made you feel like part of the film, unlike once i got it on DVD when they don't do 3D dvds for new films like this, it felt alot more like a film and the cinema experience was gone.

Television is quite an obvious and easy type of show, as you can watch the show i

n the comfort of your own house, this gives a big audience if your television program is on a major channel like BBC or ITV, there are a various of different shows displayed on TV, from Dramas, to documentaries, this opens up TV to a varied audience, which regular shows would onl

y focus on people for the specific roles, for example, comedians only appeal to a specific number of people, people who like a good laugh, which covers a wide audience, but Television can ap

peal to everyone, depending on the channel.

Programs such as Ashes to Ashes do appeal to a specific audience, but because it is more regally available then going to a show to see a comedian, this gives a big gain for the television market, as it leaves the TV more popular, as most people have a TV in their house, but not everyone has been to see like a show or something like that, gives TV a wider audience to display their work.

The idea of a Web - series is basically a short episode, like 3-5 minutes of material only shown on the web, they are different to TV series because they are very short, and if they were to be played on TV would be way to short then the usual 30 minute program, it also opens up the market to everyone as uploading to youtube is free so pretty much anyone can make a web - series.

For this show project i have been looking at a various amount of different

web series, some which try to have a serious side (not many) and some with a comedy series, and some which are just a bunch of short videos. one which follows a series is The Guild, which is about some game called World of Warcraft, this follows a woman who is the leader of this "Guild" trying to sort out situations in the real world, but mostly with her online friends, this web-series is appealing again to a specific audience like most shows, this one is appealing to the gamer type, especially ones who play World of Warcraft which i am not so i didn't really understand what they were talking about.

One web-series i did understand was Chad-Vader, who is Darth Vaders "cousin", and it follows the every day life of this person, trying to live a normal life but in a robot suit, it appeals to me more because i have watched every Star Wars film so i understand most of the references involved but again this show appeals to the star wars fan.

Some web series are made up of just random short films, for example i stumbled across the channel called 'Smosh', they are two guys just making videos, they started with just messing around in front of the webcam, but the grew more popular until they

had a massive following, now they use expensive equipment to create and edit their videos to advance and try to keep their following and help them grow, they have been going for a few

years now and have

over 50 million channel views. they just mess around in front of the camera which basically makes the audience laugh, there skill to think up new material will keep them

going for a long time.