The document provides an overview of topics covered in an exam on film, television and music. It discusses the three areas - film, television and music - and common question types about audience, industry, and genre/representation. Specific past exam questions are outlined for television focusing on audience targeting and response. Notes sections provide guidance on answering audience targeting questions and analyzing the television show Lost in terms of its ensemble cast, neutral setting, and hybrid genre. The role of enigma codes, narrative structures, and non-diegetic scores in television is also summarized.

1. Film, Television and Music

2. The Exam
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; Specific Question types
Television Audience Audience Response,
Audience targeting
Film Text-Genre/Representation CRASH
Genre Conventions
Music Industry Digital technology,
Industry success and
importance, Internet
Impact, Regulations

4. 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?
Lost series 1 Episode 2“The Pilot part 2”
You must back this up with theory and
Use Pages 7,8,9 to record notes narrative descriptions (scenes)

5. gender, race, physical appearance, subcultures, dress and age
Boon sayiid
clare
michael
Hurley
shannon
john sun
jin
soya walt
charly
jack
kate
Representation
stereotypes
feminism

6. Audience
Lost
Use of Enigma Codes
Use of the Score
The use of an ensemble cast The use of a neutral location
within the narrative
Creating lost as a hybrid genre Narrative Structure

7. 1) An Ensemble Cast
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
Gender Age Nationality one or two of the narrative issues of different
Race
cultural and society group. For example
This will of course attract a wider stereotypical view points of; Hurley-large,
audience and conform to more areas of Sayid- bias representation of foreign muslims,
the uses and gratifications theory. Shannon- “Vain unintelligent young Blonde”
Compare losts cas to simply having a all Reiginol accents and stereotyped
white, British, middle aged, middle characteristics that go with it.
class male cast.

8. 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

9. 3) Lost as a Hybrid genre
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
Genre Conventions;
Action Fantasy Science Fiction
*Frenetic chase scenes *Characters *The narrative explores
undertake a Quest rationally alternative
*High use of special *the use of possibilities
effects supernatural *Unlikely events are
*Fast pace cut durations phenomena as a justified by scientific
*increase tension primary element of theories
throughout the text until narrative *Discovery or application
a climax/ending
of new scientific
*Love interest that both
principles
hinders and supports the
main quest.
*Use of Enigma codes

10. 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.

11. Narrative Structure – Todorov? Propp?

12. 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.