Dhurata's Media Blog

  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. 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: Teenager protagonists who are male and female   Personal Relationships: Will is the 'everyman' and the audience can see relate to him and view the magic through his eyes as he is from our world. Diversion (Escapism): Different worlds, talking animals, witches 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. 

  Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? The target audience is mainstream , people who like sci-fi. I think it hasn't changed that much as it is still mainstream but due to the new diversity implemented everyone could see themselves in the show therefor the target audience is larger as rather than an old, white male doctor different ethnicities, genders and ages have been the doctor in recent times. 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: A teenager could relate to Susan being viewed as different and how she is rebellious to her parent figure and adults (mostly parents) could relate to the teachers concern for Susan. Personal Relationships: The cliffhanger makes the audience want to see how the teachers will get back to

Language an 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 or this Google document of class notes (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: The hum in the beginning of the episode creates mystery and illustrates the sci-fi genre Mise-en-scene: The Doctor's costume is out of place (odd hat and scarf) to convey his strange and alien behaviour Narrative and genre: sci-fi genre , character theory- Susan is the princess while the doctor could be the villain/ anti-hero of this episode , no equilibrium at the end as it leaves on a cliff-hanger . 2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?  Todorov's Equilibrium: Susan is at school but teachers are worried about her , augment with The Doctor outside the Tardis , there is no resolution for this episode. Propp's character theory: Susan would be the princess, the Doctor would be villain/anti-he