His Dark Materials: Industry and Audience blog tasks

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 can be applied to His Dark Materials? Refer to specific scenes or moments in the episode to explain your answer. 

Visceral: the intro might hype you up by the they way they represented.

Vicarious: These characters are interested in one things.

Voyeuristic :You woundnt get a chance to watch a subaium underwater.

4) How did fans react to Season 2 of His Dark Materials? What about critic reviews? You can find some possible answers for this in this BBC website article on the critical reception for His Dark Materials and watch the fan reaction video above.

They were excited as the last season ended in a cliffhanger and this season continues last season.

5) What might be some of the preferred and oppositional readings for His Dark Materials? Why did some fans love it? Why have other people criticised it? 

People loved it because they had fun watching and some hated it because it wasn't interested for them.

Industries

1) Which companies produced this His Dark Materials series?

BBC

2) What were the UK viewing figures for A City of Magpies? How did this compare to season 1 of His Dark Materials?

They are continuing the season from the last season.

3) What was American network HBO's role in making His Dark Materials and why is this important? Look at the notes above for more on this.

This show was based from a different show and they or him or her want to make the same thing but different .

4) What famous stars are in His Dark Materials and why do you think they were selected for the show? Watch the Comic Con panel video in the notes above to see the stars talking about the show.

Will philip and i think he got chosen because he is the type of guy would be a scardy cat in a movie.

5) Who are Bad Wolf and what do they produce?

They are a production team and they take control in a show or movie.

Comparison: Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child and His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies

1) How are the technical conventions different between 1963 Doctor Who and 2020 His Dark Materials (e.g. camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene)?

There more features more than the doctor who as the technology upgraded during the years.

2) What similarities and differences are there between Doctor Who and His Dark Materials in terms of genre and narrative?

The doctor who genre is mystery and his dark materials are fantancy and there are different quotes that are good.

3) How are representations of people, places and groups similar or different in the two shows?

They are in strange places and the people have kinda a similar personalities and groups.