Remy GCSE Media Studies

  Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? Target audience are people who are interested in Science. 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: entertainment and interested  Personal Relationships: relatable? Diversion (Escapism):  Surveillance (Information / Facts):  3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  modern  2020 audience? more diverse representation  4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?   Voyeuristic pleasures 5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples. Science  Industries 1)  What was the television industry like in...

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: Music - theme tune to Doctor Who. Very science-fiction - sets genre from beginning. Graphics on screen: title of show and episode. Simple text/font.  Slow, clunky camera movement (due to technology in 1960s).  Sound: hum of TARDIS (helps create science-fiction genre). Mise-en-scene: Susan - first introduced dancing and dressed as 1960s teenager (costume). Seems to be both typical teenager and alien. Costume and hair typical of 1960s. School - creates personal identity for audience.    Narrative and genre: Opening title sequence like a rocket taking off - sci-fi genre and links to 1960s space race. Enigma codes: mystery of Susan’s home. French Revolution book - “I’ll have finished it” “That’s not right”... suggests time travel...