Using The Office as an example to illustrate Berger’s focal points, the art work would be an episode of The Office, the audience would be the general public, artists would be writers, production staff directors, and actors, America and other countries such as the UK where The Office originated, and the medium would be television. Berger states that writers must always think about their audience. The producers of The Office were probably directing the show towards college-educated, young adults to older adults, and towards people who are amused by a goofy/awkward sense of humor. The show would have been written completely different for persons outside of this audience, for instance, children would not really understand it nor would they be interested. Berger also talks about the dilemma with where to place certain topics, but in the case of The Office, each episode is a topic in itself, and although there is a sense of chronological order in the episodes, it would not be required of one to start the show from season one, episode one in order to understand the rest of the episodes. Lastly, Berger uses music as an example of a person’s preference changing throughout his or her life. Using The Office as another example, what a viewer finds humorous may change as he or she gets older and even though I may like the show now, it doesn’t necessarily mean I will always and forever find the same type of thing humorous.
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