Skip to main content

Introduction to Audience

Component 1 Section A - Analysing Media Language and Representation

- Tide Advert
- Kiss of the Vampire
- WaterAid A/V Advert

Component 1 Section B - Analysing Media Industries and Audiences

- Tide Advert
- WaterAid A/V Advert

ALL media needs an audience.

Without an audience a media product cannot be sold.

Generating different reactions from an audience is important.

Target Audience - The specific group of people that a producer aims to sell their product to.

Primary Audience - The first audience that a product is targeted at.

Secondary Audience - A second group considered by a producer.

Producer > Text > Audience

Producer encodes text.

Audience decodes text.

Audiences may now interact directly with a producer through social media.

Producer does:

Targeting - Aiming media at a certain group of people/type of audience.
Attracting - Making a product that appeals to a certain group of people.
Reaching - Getting information from a certain group of people. 'Grabbing' an audience.
Addressing - Who/what/how a producer talks to an audience.
Constructing - Creating an audience to go with a product

Last Of Us

Dominant stereotypical male character creates a target audience of older men.

Dull/desaturated colour scheme.

Dirty clothing may not appeal to women. (Dirty mise-en-scene)

Has a serious/depressing tone.

Post-apocalyptic genre.

Use of 'us' makes the game more personal.

Secondary audience - teenage women.

Woman is fully clothed. She's not being sexualised.

How can we break down audiences?

Split into different groups based on stereotypes.

Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, Stereotypes, Age, Location, Sexuality, Lifestyle, Class / Social Status

Class - Where one stands in comparison to other people.


Above is an example of a demographic that categories a group of people. It is qualitative.

Psychographics - The classification of people according to psychological criteria.

Aspirer - People who want to appear rich and attractive.

Reformers - People who want social change and are unimpressed by status and make decisions based on their values

Explorers - Adventurous people who like taking risks.

Mainstreamers - People who follow the crowd.

Strugglers - People who find it hard to achieve.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Adbusters

Deliberately challenged the image. Its childish defacing. This defacing plays on the ideology that nothing is too high up to take down. Banksy Drawing of Policeman snorting cocaine. This is know as detournement. It is a form of high-jacking or re-routing. It is more commonly seen as Culture Jamming. Culture jamming is often obsessed with the idea of destructing consumerism/capitalism. Culture jamming - the practise of criticising and subverting advertising and consumerism in the mass media, by methods such as producing advertisements parodying those of global brands. Adbusters potential genres: Pop Culture - Sans serif font has informal connotations Satirical Comedy - Attacks something. Adbusters uses a lot of negative white space which connotes purity but directly contrasts with the image shown on the background. Masthead changes every time. Every magazine cover is unique which shows they are challenging. There is no reference to anything that is inside. No...

Textual Analysis - Exam Structure - IMPORTANT

Introduction - DAC Definition - Defining key terms Argument -  Context - Background information about media Paragraphs - PEA Point -  Evidence - references to key scenes Argument - theories TERMS TO USE Polysemy - Something with many possible meanings Hegemony - Rules that people follow that aren't necessarily law Intertextuality - Where one media text references another Negotiation - Audience response to a media product that agrees and disagrees Ideology - Views and beliefs of producer Things to revise: What could be in the Exam? Tide Advert WaterAid Advert Kiss of the Vampire Advert Woman Magazine Adbusters' Magazine Daily Mirror Newspaper The Times Newspaper Humans Les Revenants Formation Riptide Late Night Women's Hour Assassins Creed III: Liberation Zoella Attitude Online I Daniel Blake Straight Outta Compton Examiner will see big words and give higher mark. ...

Film Industry revision - 28th March 2019

NO AUDIENCE THEORIES - NO TEXTUAL ANALYSIS I Daniel Blake, Straight Outta Compton Distribution is the key to success for any media industry : How have digital technologies affected the ways in which films are produced and distributed ? Plan NWA conglomeration curran and seaton - power in media industries steve neale - genre theory 'glamourises benefits' - jeremy corbyn Viral Marketing - clay shirky - henry jenkins Convergence Lengendary - producer, universal - distributor Vertical, Horizontal and multimedia integration (hesmondhalgh) Stars Stereotypes Success - financial success Specialised industry Knee-jerk reaction Distribution refers ti the was in which media products are shared and given out to their intended and target audiences. Distribution is absolutely vital to the financial success of the film industry, and this is made increasingly more so by advances in digital technology. Marketing campaign Discounted cinema tickets...