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Doctor Who: Audience and Industry blog tasks

  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...

Doctor Who: Language and Representation blog tasks

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...

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor: Blog tasks

Arctic Monkeys: Audience 1) What is the main Arctic Monkeys audience - demographics and psychographics? Arctic Monkeys' audience are likely to be  white, middle class and reasonably young . Psychographic groups might include Reformers and Explorers. Recent global success pushed the band into bigger psychographic groups such as Mainstreamers. Audience pleasures would include diversion - the song is upbeat and fast-paced. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor? Diversion, Personal Relationships, Surveillance and Personal Identity. 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?  This is a performance video designed to look like a 1980s TV performance, It was filmed using old TV cameras to give it an authentic, nostalgic effect. The simple performance video subverts music video conventions narrative-based in the 1...

Advertising assessment learner response

  1) Type up your  WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).  2) Read the  mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 0 Q2: 5 Q3: 0 Q4: 0 3)  Look specifically at  question 2  - the OMO 12-mark question. Pick out  three  points from the mark scheme that you didn't include in your answer.  • social attitudes will be reflected in marketing campaigns of the day • language and imagery evolve and change over time to reflect current usage and new trends • gender, ethnicity and sexuality will be represented in different ways as social attitudes change  4) Now look at  question 3  - on the NHS Represent advert. Use the mark scheme to identify  one  way the advert  subverts  stereotypes of race/ethnicity and  one  way it might  reinforce  stereotyp...

Magazines: Tatler CSP

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 1 ) Look at the  Tatler Media Pack . Go to  page 2 : how does the editor introduce the magazine? 2) Now go to  page 4  of the Media Pack. Focus on the print magazine ( NOT  tatler.com - the website). List the key demographic details: age, gender %, ABC1 % (social class), HHI (Household Income), % of those living in London and the South East. What do these demographic details suggest about the average Tatler reader? 3) Look at  page 6 . What do Tatler readers think about fashion? How much do they spend? 4) Go to  page 10 . What are the special editions of Tatler that run throughout the year? What does this suggest about the Tatler audience? What about the  pyschographic audience group  that best fits Tatler? Media language erent examples of  typography  can you find on the cover of Tatler? 1) What diff  What are the connotations of the serif and sans serif fonts?   Sans serif typefaces are considered more modern ...

BLACKPINK - How You Like That: Blog tasks

  Audience 1) What are BLACKPINK fans known as - and what would the demographics / psychographics be for the BLACKPINK audience? BLINKs, the official fandom of the four-member girl group BLACKPINK, are  devoted fans who go out of their way to support them . They show their appreciation by streaming their music, attending their concerts and events, and spreading the word about them on social media 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for How You Like That? The audiences pleasures are enjoyment 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?  4) How was the How You Like That music video marketed and promoted to the audience? It was promoted by collabing with other companies, eg. KIA  5) Why is K-pop a global phenomenon and what has helped it to become so popular? K-pop has become globally known because of Hallyu (Korean culture wave). K-pop is inc...

Typography: Photoshop workshop

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