Sentences with phrase «draw audience attention»

In addition, use bolded headers to draw audience attention and keep articles organized.

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As Cialdini explains, «Drawing attention to the favored feature is effective not only in getting audiences to consider it fully but also in getting them to lend the feature exaggerated significance.»

You have a platform, Dr. Dawkins, an audience, and in some real way I'm very grateful that you drew attention to the pre-natal eradication of people with Down syndrome.

They threw a few barbs at each other, and one managed to draw harsh condemnation afterwards for a comment involving Mayor de Blasio's wife, but they mostly tried to push past each other as they sought audience and press attention.

Labour MP Stella Creasy often uses it to draw attention to the scourge of online trolls, retweeting the vile abuse she receives to an audience of nearly 50,000 followers.

Tellingly, he punctuated his speech this week by drawing the attention of his audience to the fact that the «most important thing he would say» was that the link between growth and rising prosperity for working people had been broken, and that only substantial economic reform could restore it.

And while coordinators say the appearance of NYSUT President Karen Magee at their annual awards dinner was a coincidence, her speech offered a platform to draw attention to education issues before an audience of union workers.

Although sports figures such as tennis great Billie Jean King and Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes drew most of the media attention, a half - dozen scientists were in the audience.

If the judges stick to their brief, it can not possibly win the prize, but it is a cracking good book and I am all in favour of bending the rules to put it on the short list and draw it to the attention of a wide audience.

Artaud: Communicating your Ph.D. work under such constraints requires you to draw the attention of your audience and to get to the point.

In its new incarnation, «The X-Men» continued to speak to a teen audience, but its appeal was subtly different; rather than allowing disempowered or alienated kids to identify with superempowered alter egos, the new comic drew attention to the metaphoric possibilities of being a mutant.

Artfully made but wholly accessible for a mainstream audience, it features strong performances but no names in the cast who'll draw attention on their own.

At one point, the protagonists draw attention to each other's «tell,» and it's impressive how both actors, even in the smallest dramatic moments, play those tells to let the audience in on whether Gerry and Curtis are lying without anyone ever directly commenting on it.

Fit and trim, the ever - capable Cruise (he also co-produced the film) looks like he pumped iron between takes, drawing as much attention as possible to his biceps in the interest of audience demographics.

Still, you could argue that's a deliberate choice by the filmmakers to draw attention to the artifice you're watching, utilising yet another fourth - wall smashing device to point the finger at the audience and cry out Mark Twain's words: «Never let the truth get in the way of a good story».

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

The director, who came from a privileged London background and has made prestigious, classic films like «Les Misérables» and «The King's Speech,» now tackles an issue which has drawn some attention in our own time, and has done such a remarkable job, helped by Oscar - worthy performances from both principal actors, that the sometimes lightly comic but mostly easy - to - take romance should attract a wide audience.

In both films, Shyamalan trusts the audience to pay attention, and makes use of Bruce Willis» everyman quality, so we get drawn into the character instead of being distracted by the surface.

With so many industry experts warning authors that they have to give their audiences compelling content that will keep them reading, it only seems logical that readers want to invest their time and attention — not just their money — in a book that will draw them in and remain entertaining.

Most of them think that unless there's any narration of personal experiences, which seemed to be challenging, it would be hard to draw the attention of the reviewers and audience.

A short, forty to sixty second video, however, is a powerful tool to engage your audience and draw attention to your book.

It might be just what you need to draw the attention that your book deserves and be the first step in building your audience.

The concept of a blog tour is to is to find blogs that share a similar audience and create an online «tour» by providing content for multiple blogs to draw attention to your book and expand your audience.

@Lara Amber — I viewed the Stephen Colbert piece on punishing Amazon as 1) drawing attention to the issue and the parties for audiences that might not be aware / interested and 2) more intriguing for someone who isn't a «big time» author... the person who might be self publishing with Amazon (or elsewhere), or trying to get Hachette or another publisher to sign a deal with them.

The ladies in his audience are drawn to Harlan the Guitar Player, and he draws on that knowledge and selects one of them in a random drawing for special attention at the close of each evening's onstage performance.

Gill drew the audience's attention to the various laws related to animal cruelty and explained the sort of evidences one should collect to aid investigations.

This is how trailer editors especially can use them to draw the audience into a story and hold onto their attention.

With 64,620 surveys completed, the results draw attention to the key motivations of a gaming «millennial audience» (70 % of responses were from the 13 - 21 year old age range) that are heavily engaged with YouTube as their main source of information about videogames.

Fishermen at Sea, by contrast, did not rely upon accurate detail or patriotic sentiment to attract an audience, but rather drew attention to the facture of the painting itself.

Inviting the audience to lounge and be a part of whimsical and engaging universe, Rist's video projections are known to draw the attention of many across the globe.

In «Speaking of People,» artists cut, collage, and repurpose Ebony and Jet — two magazines launched in the mid — twentieth century for black audiences — to draw attention to representations of race in print.

Housed within carefully constructed sculptural elements, attention is drawn to physical relations between audience and screen: the contingency of body and surface.

Aitken's work draws on many other artists — text and image paintings by Ed Ruscha; video ruminations on animal intelligence by Diana Thater (Aitken's fellow student at Art Center College in the late 1980s); Bruce Nauman's insistent demand to audiences to «Please Pay Attention,» repeated in an Aitken light - box; Bill Viola's technical video - theatrics; Jack Pierson's faded wall texts composed from scavenged commercial signage; the mirrored sculptures of Robert Smithson, avatar of entropy; Yayoi Kusama's infinity chambers, and more.

These works were less narrative, more audience interactive, and primarily concerned with drawing attention to the present moment.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

As was said last year, «drawing attention to your law firm has more to do with seeing opportunities than whipping your audience into a frenzy.

Through emotional performances, stunning art direction and production value that rivals any national commercial, «Claim Number» is sure to draw attention, engage your audience and portray your firm as one someone can trust when they need help.

These were enough to draw the attention of the audience, but after I spoke with classmates, what we agreed was most inspiring was Joseph's ability to reconcile with the past.

You want the first paragraph your intended audience reads to hook their attention and draw them in, and this will come from your research.

This is the part of the feature where you can really draw the attention of your audience.

Promoting your business through blog posts, social shares, and email campaigns is a vital component of any successful real estate marketing plan, but it's not always enough to draw attention from the right audience.