Media Reception of the Audiovisual Image as a Way Influencing the Audience (Based on the Works of Quentin Tarantino and Aleksei Balabanov)

The graduation paper endows and enhances one’s knowledge in the professional field of journalism and media communications. This, in turn, augments one’s insight linked to the question of the reception of film critics and film spectators represented in the mass media. Specifically, the reception of audiovisual images in cinematography. Methods being used in the project paper include an analysis of the discourse, semantic analysis, audience survey and interview with an expert. The first part of the research is linked to illustrating the specific methods the cinematography uses with the sound room in its productions. The main body of the paper demonstrates the analysis of the russian speaking and english speaking media messages which respond and review the audiovisual images in the films of Quentin Tarantino and Alexey Balabanov. Furthermore, the paper concludes and systimizes the theoretical knowledge of the emotional, artistic and psychological influence of the audiovisual tools on the film spectators. The research attains the fundamental understanding of the distinctive features of the reception of audiovisual images represented by mass media. The audiovisual images are found to serve as a tool of influence on the spectator, using the productions of . Quentin Tarantino and Aleksei Balabanov.