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DOCOTOR WHO AUDIENCE

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  1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? MOST LIKELY EVERYONE BUT MAINLY 10 TO 30 YEAR OLDS 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity: PEOPLE MAY RELATE TO SUSAN BEING AN OUTSIDER Personal Relationships:SOME PEOPLE ARE TEACHERS LIKE IAN AND BARBARA Diversion (Escapism): THE MYSTERY OF THE TARDIS Surveillance (Information / Facts):THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE DOCTOR AND SUSAN ARE FROM AND HOW THE TARDIS WORKS 3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  modern  2020s audience? THEY COULD LEARN HOW WOMEN WHERE TREATED COMPARED TO MEN IN THE 60s 4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child? YOU WO...

Doctor who language and representations

  1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or  this Google document of class notes  (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: A futuristic theme song aswell as quick shots and handheld camera movements Mise-en-scene: Lots of futuristic aspects inside the TARDIS with junk from the junkyard and a car a school with 2 teachers a student and the Doctor Narrative and genre:Sci-Fi,suspense,mystery 2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?  Todorov's Equilibrium:the show ends when the problem starts Propp's character theory:The damsel is Susan the hero is Ian the sidekick is Barbara and the villain is the Doctor Barthes's enigma and action codes:The tardis is an enigma code so is the doctor Levi-Strauss's binary opposition: Old vs young in The Doctor and ians arguemnet and the same when Susan and The Doctor argue 3) In your ...

INTRO TO TV DRAMA

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  1) How does this  His Dark Materials  trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series? BY involving an ensemble cast alongside a narrative across all episodes in season 2 however we wont be able to see much more as it is only a trailer 2) What genre (or genres) are suggested by this  His Dark Materials  trailer? Fantasy,action,and adventure 3) What kind of characters and narratives are introduced in this trailer? There is a young girl with multiple people looking for her because she is looking for something so there is a main group of characters and 2 possible narratives 4) What settings appear in the trailer? A few of the many fantasy worlds or dimensions but also probably the houses of the main characters 5) Who do you think the target audience for  His Dark Materials  is? Give reasons for your answer. Late teens to early adults because of the story that doesn't seem to have any aspects that would appeal to children of a younger age aswell a...

Music video index

 Artic Monkeys-I bet you look good on the dancefloor MV BLACKPINK-How you like that music video Intro to music videos

MV for Artic monkkeys I bet you look good on the dancefloor

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  1) What do we know about the Arctic Monkeys audience? Think demographics, psychographics and how they got into the band. The audience i would say are stereotypical middle aged white men 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor? Music, visual enjoyment of performance, authentic and relatable 3) Pick out three particular shots, scenes or moments in the video that would particularly appeal to Arctic Monkeys fans. Why did you choose those moments? Because you can see the chords on the guitar,how the people look  4) How did fans take a leading role in making Arctic Monkeys famous back in 2005? By uploading the music onto myspace form the free CDS artic monkeys gave out 5) How are fans positioned to respond to the band? What does Arctic Monkeys want fans to think about their video? At the start the lead singer says dont believ the hype so he doesnt believe in hype maybe Industries 1) How did the Arctic Monkeys first achiev...

Music Video: BLACKPINK - How You Like That

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  1) What are BLACKPINK fans known as - and what would the demographics / psychographics be for the BLACKPINK audience? Blink. The demographics and psychographics are most likely to be teenage girls 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for How You Like That? Audio and visual pleasure 3) Pick out three particular shots, scenes or moments in the video that would particularly appeal to BLACKPINK fans. Why did you choose those moments?  The shot with all the members i one because fans will find it coolThe individual shots 0of each member. 4) How was the How You Like That music video marketed and promoted to the audience? As an entertaining and colourful visualiser for their hit song 5) Why is K-pop a global phenomenon and what has helped it to become so popular? But many people in general enjoy the music and some listeners are likely to be attracted to the members of the groups

Intro to music vides

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  1) What are the key conventions of music video? Colours,storytelling,entertainment,comedy,theming 2) What is intertextuality? when one media piece references another within another 3) When did music videos first become a major part of the music industry? when top of the pops and MTV where introduced 4) What launched in 1981 and why  were music videos an important part of the music industry in the 1980s and 1990s? MTV 5) How are music videos distributed and watched in the digital age? In youtube, spotify and one example which is the only one i have seen like it is the limited edition atavista vinyl by Childish Gambino