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   1)who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? The target audience for doctor who was probably for people for 10 to 14 age because more teenagers would watch TV shows.  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: This episode is about the doctors granddaughter this is because the teachers were after her. Personal Relationships : The Doctor is her grandpa Diversion (Escapism): They teachers keep asking questions about the girl            Surveillance (Information / Facts):   The girl keeps running away from the questions that the teacher ask.      3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  modern  2020 audience? -The use of sci-fi  things this wo...

Audience 1) Read this  audience rating guide for His Dark Materials . Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups?  You can  revise Pyschographics here . The target audience is for those who are gonna make a video or those who will do word of mouth so more people could watch this. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies? 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 : some of this characters have a good and bad intentions around them.  Personal Relationships: The teenagers are all by themselves and they care of each other. Diversion (Escapism): the teenagers are going around dimensions  3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these c...

  1) Write an analysis of the episode - using notes from the screening in class.  Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) You can currently  watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here . Camerawork, editing and sound: There was rapid changing scene work and editing like when the witches turned into animals. Mise-en-scene: There was not much of changing costumes but there were so many props in the town like the apples on the floor. Narrative and genre: In each scene there was a different genre and there many interesting lines that the characters said. You can  access our notes from our close-textual analysis in class here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to open this. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the fantasy TV genre? This fits dark because its all about things that will not come t...

  Language and contexts 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 and we'll also post a Google document of class notes too (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound:There were different shots of the all the different scenes we watched and this would show the characters facial expression or gesture. Mise-en-scene:There were different settings and the first was in the school when the teachers were talking about Susan.Then the next setting was in a junk yard because the teachers went searching for Susan.Then it was in the tardis where Ian and Barbara found while walking around the telephone box.At the end they time travelled to a new planet or timeline. Narrative and genre:The genre keeps changing in every scene 2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?  Todorov's Equilibrium: The Doctor in this episode acted like the villan instea...