Doctor Who: Audience and Industries blog

 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963?

The target audience for doctor who were family people, and kids and teenagers. 

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: seeing your lifestyle on screen. Think about how different audiences may identify with Susan, her teachers or the Doctor

Personal Relationships:  caring about characters and wanting to find out what happens to them. This is the first episode of four - which characters do you think the audience will want to follow on their journey? 

Diversion (Escapism):  escapism and being entertained away from your normal life. Science Fiction is a classic genre for escapism


3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020 audience?

The camera work and quality would be way better and more clear, if there is modern technology used and they could even record it and watch it later instead of watching it live. 

4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?

Physical thrill of watching something e.g hairs on the back of your neck in a horror film, sport, big explosions. 

 Experiencing something through the characters (e.g. time/space travel). 

 Watching something you wouldn't normally get a chance to see (e.g. inside TARDIS).



Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?

There were only two TV channels in the UK in 1963: BBC and ITV. 

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?

In terms of technology, videotape had only been in use for seven years when An Unearthly Child was made. It allowed the BBC to create the space and time travel effects we can see in the episode which were considered amazing at the time. 

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 

It has been shown all over the world through BBC Worldwide and generates huge income for the BBC.

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?

  • K9
  • Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Torchwood
  • Class
These spin-offs allow the BBC to target slightly different audiences while still taking advantage of the huge Doctor Who fanbase. 

 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Preliminary exercise feedback and learner response

  The graphic identity / artist and song name on the white wall background works well. However, if that bit is performance lip-syncing it isn’t synced up correctly so you’ll need to either re-edit it to line it up or re-shoot it if the performance doesn’t match the song. This will be a vital aspect for the real coursework as you’ll need the lip syncing edited perfectly in time. The shots/narrative fit the feel of the song well. I wonder if it’s worth trying some filters or slow motion to increase the emotional intensity of the video? In terms of the narrative/performance element – you only have that little bit of performance at the start. If you are going to have both elements make sure you keep cutting back and forth between the performance and the narrative element. The shot by the tree works well – try and use more shots like this in the full video. Having said that, you re-use the tree shot within the 30 seconds of
Read more

Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Representation and Industry

  Representation 1) What political party does the  Daily Mirror  support? How can you tell? The Daily Mirror supports the Labour Party and is against the Conservative Party. Generally, the newspaper will act as a voice for normal people (like NHS heroes) and go against the rich and powerful (like Conservative politicians or big corporations like Amazon). 2) How does the  Daily Mirror  usually represent rich and powerful people or corporations? As Soul-less and unloving people. 3) How are ordinary working people presented in the Daily Mirror? Ordinary people are presented as heroes and always right  4) How is the Labour Party represented in the Daily Mirror? The labour party is represented in the Daily Mirror as The good people 5) How is Amazon represented in the article on 'no-till' Amazon stores? it is represented as a threat to the average day person
Read more

End of Year 1 exams: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback from both papers in full (you do not need to write marks/grades if you do not wish to). PAPER 1:  www: This is a valuable lesson in how much you need to engage with the content and learn/revise as you go. If you can add that depth of understanding you will start to move up towards the higher levels. EBI: Although your bog work is up to date. you are not answering the questions in enough depth so when it comes to the exam the knowledge is there. without detailed understanding you will be stuck on lower levels PAPER 2:   www: This id your first attempt at Tv exam and it needs to be a good lesson in skills and knowledge required.  EBI: Revise narrative theories and terminology 1.3 needs to focus specifically on the clip., Q2 needs much more specific reference to the CSP episodes.  2) Look at the two mark scheme documents linked above. Pick out   ONE  thing from Paper 1 and   ONE  thing from Paper 2 that you learned from the mark schemes: Paper 1: i learnt non ve
Read more