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Analysis Of The War Of The Worlds By Orson Wells

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In 1938 around Halloween, Orson Wells broadcasted The War of the Worlds on the radio, a story about Martians from the planet Mars destroying the earth. People who did not hear or understand that the story was fake began to panic because they thought it was actually happening. The War of the Worlds used many media messages to persuade the audience that his story was real. One of the main ideas of his broadcast was to create suspense and drama for the viewer. He did this by the tone, interruptions, and background noise of the broadcast.
The characters of Wells production of The War of the Worlds had many different voice tones. One tone that helped spread the media message of The War of the Worlds was the suspenseful and dramatic voice. It helped
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