2. Text-Genre/Representation
Industry
Audience
The Exam
Television
Music
Film
The 3 areas of the media we cover are
Film, Television and Music
The question topics are, Audience,
Industry
And Genre/Representation
Media We choose exam Question on;
Audience Response,
Audience targeting
CRASH
Genre Conventions
Digital technology,
Industry success and
importance, Internet
Impact, Regulations
Specific Question types
3.
4. Lost series 1 Episode 2โThe Pilot part 2โ
Use Pages 7,8,9 to record notes
Exam Questions from the past 4 years, which link to T.V texts
Audience Targeting
1.Most texts target a range of different audiences, how true is that of your chosen text?
2.How do your chosen texts attract their audiences?
3.Explore the different ways your three main texts attract their audiences..
Audience Response
1.Explore the different ways in which
audiences and/or users respond to your
chosen texts
Answering Audience Targeting Question
To answer the audience targeting
question you must ensure you consider
who would gain a positive reading of the
texts. You must also consider why that
particular audience would gain this
reading?
You must back this up with theory and
narrative descriptions (scenes)
5. gender, race, physical appearance, subcultures, dress and age
jack
kate
charly
john
Hurley
soya
shannon
sayiidBoon
clare
sun
jin
walt
michael
Representation
stereotypes
feminism
6. 1.Identify who is the intended
target audience?
Active/Passive/Mainstream/Niche
2. Justify three conventions which
you feel proves the target audience
you stated is correct.
3. Evidence those conventions with
narrative evidence.
7. Lost
Audience
The use of an ensemble cast
Creating lost as a hybrid genre
The use of a neutral location
within the narrative
Use of the Score
Use of Enigma Codes
Narrative Structure
8. An ensemble cast is a cast in which the
principal performers are assigned roughly
equal amounts of importance and screen time
in a dramatic production. This kind of casting
became more popular in television series
because it allows flexibility for writers to focus
on different characters in different episodes.
A benefit of the inclusion of an ensemble cast
is the fact that the audience can identify with
one or two of the narrative issues of different
cultural and society group. For example
stereotypical view points of; Hurley-large,
Sayid- bias representation of foreign muslims,
Shannon- โVain unintelligent young Blondeโ
Reiginol accents and stereotyped
characteristics that go with it.
1) An Ensemble Cast
Race Gender NationalityAge
This will of course attract a wider
audience and conform to more areas of
the uses and gratifications theory.
Compare losts cas to simply having a all
white, British, middle aged, middle
class male cast.
9. 2) The use of a neutral location within the narrative
Lost is of course set on a mystical island away from settings and locations which
could gratify the audience and help them gain a preferred reading. For example a
office environment could alienate the young. A school/University environment
could alienate the middle aged, a location such as Baltimor USA could alienate the
British or even middle class, where as a location such as Cambridge could alienate
the working class.
This mystical environment/location could
also act as a sense of escapism. Taking thw
audience away from the familiar and
everyday life
Uses and Gratifications Theory
Escaping, or being diverted, from problems
10. *Frenetic chase scenes
*High use of special
effects
*Fast pace cut durations
*increase tension
throughout the text until
a climax/ending
*Love interest that both
hinders and supports the
main quest.
*Use of Enigma codes
Action Fantasy
*Characters
undertake a Quest
*the use of
supernatural
phenomena as a
primary element of
narrative
Lost is classified as a Hybrid of; Action, Adventure and Fantasy. By creating lost
in this post modern form, it mixes genre conventions to create a new identity and
broadening its audience by not pigeon holding individual genre conventions and
excluding viewers who hold an oppositional reading of them
3) Lost as a Hybrid genre
Genre Conventions;
Science Fiction
*The narrative explores
rationally alternative
possibilities
*Unlikely events are
justified by scientific
theories
*Discovery or application
of new scientific
principles
11. The use of Enigma Codes
An ENIGMA CODE controls what the audience sees or knows. It is a question a
media text will give to an audience and then proceed to solve whilst gaining the
attention and interest of the audience.When the 'readers' recognise these codes,
they get 'pleasure of the text' and this pleasure is enhanced and emphasised
when there is overlap between the fictional narrative (what the audience is
watching) and the 'real' narrative of day to day existence. In other words, the
closer the makers of the text come to representing recognisable codes from the
audience's own lives, the more pleasure of the text the audience gets.
13. 6. The use of the Score
-Non Diegetic Sound is sound where the source can not be seen.
-A film score is the background music of a film. The term soundtrack may be confused with film
score. A soundtrack, however, contains everything audible in the film including sound effects and
dialogue. Soundtracks may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released
music by other artists. A score is written specifically to accompany a film, by the original film's
composer. Each individual piece of music, within a film's score, is called a cue and is typically a
composition for instruments.
-The purpose of the Score is to help the audience feel the same emotion as a character within the
text at that particular time.
