TASK 4

What is the effect of the scene on the audience? Use as many theories in your answer as possible to show you understanding of these theories.

The loud deigetic sounds of the guns in the scene create a very brutal and frightening atmosphere where anything could happen and it also engaging the audience to see who is shooting and who is actually being shot. The drone-like, non deigetic sound that is under laying the scene creates a chilling ambience which somewhat foreshadows that a terrible thing will happen and that will essentially keep the audience on their feet.

It could be said that his scene from Scarface would have been very violent and disturbing to the audience back in the 1980’s, however now it wouldn’t be as violent and hard-hitting to the modern audiences nowadays according to the DesensitisationTheory because the modern audience have been exposed to too much violence in the past that now we are less sensitive to real life and violence and violence in media texts also.

This scene can also influence a member of the audience to imitate what they have seen, and subsequently be violent’; in terms of the Copy Cat Theory.

The Cultivation Theory can also be applied to this scene because as audience watch scenes where people kill their enemies, they could also believe that the only way to deal with your enemies is by violence.