Show - Different examples and what it is.

There are many ways to put on a show, to give a performance or present an exhibition this can either be for profit or your own enjoyment. This can be extended to the use of a cinema show your work and others involved with it such as the Actors, Writers and other more obscure jobs such as Make up and Costume design.

While another example of a show are Street performances or Busking, it's the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities. Busking can be broken down in to many different activities this can stem from acrobatics, animal tricks, card tricks, joke telling or other live comedy sketches, dance, fire eating and breathing, magic or card tricks, mimes and living statues which are becoming increasingly popular in Covent garden, street art which can be charactures or 3D pavement drawings and finally the long standing british traditional Punch and Judy. The difference between street performers and those who act in theatre or film, is that they are free to interact with the audience and the street is their stage they can use steps, benches they are not confined to the restrictions of a stage. Interaction with an audience on the street is the most important aspect of busking, the audience has no special interest in what you have to do or say rather than theatre where the audience has payed to get in, this make the buskers skill at interacting with the audience the key trait to whether you make or break. Street performers are advertising their skill and many have become famous or urban legends, for example The Bushman who sets up on the sidewalk of Fisherman’s Warf, which is a classic San Francisco tourist hot spot, where he spends his days frightening unassuming tourists from behind a homemade “bush” that consists of leafy tree branches. Although his costume is makeshift and pretty minimal, he has a huge impact! Clueless passersby often jump and scream then give him a few dollars afterwards.

Busking isn't always about making money sometimes it is a chance to share your skill with an unassuming audience for example Paul McCartney of the Beatles once put on a disguise and went busking. "It was for a film thing (Give My Regards To Broad Street, 1984) and it was something I'd always wanted to do, so I scruffed myself up a bit, put on a false beard and shades, and went down to Leicester Square tube station. It was really cool. A couple of people came up and said, 'Is it you?' but I just said, 'Oh, no'. But I got a few shillings and I thought, 'This doesn't feel right,' so I gave it to charity."

Moving from the extremes of street performance and the need for interaction with the audience is TV. TV is about your own space as a viewer being able to watch it comfortably from your own home. There is little chance of conversational interaction as many shows are filmed edited then broadcasted, you watch the show and then are able to discuss it. Though in todays TV scheduling there is an increase in live TV and audience voting programs. This kind of show is a mixture between Tv and busking, such as Britains got talent and X Factor, performers go on TV they do their piece then are voted in by the Judges then in the final rounds you may call in from your home to vote for who you want to win.