How Do Filmmakers Persuade Audiences?
Introduction Filmmakers persuade audiences through the coordinated use of story, image, sound, editing, performance, genre, and context. Persuasion does not always mean that a director is trying to make viewers accept one political argument. A film may persuade audiences to sympathize with a character, fear a threat, admire a lifestyle, accept a version of history, buy a product, or interpret an event in a particular way. The original essay correctly

