DOCTOR WHO: AUDIENCE AND INDUSTRY

 Audience


1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?
Doctor Who is targeted at mainstream family audience-broad appeal as millions of people watch the BBC. Also targeted at audience aged 10-40+. Also targeted on audiences interested on sci-fi.

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:

Teens, personally relating to Susan as teens wants to be free, and they feel like they are being isolated and misunderstood, teenagers feeling rebellious. Interested in about space (space race).

Personal Relationships:

Teachers, they are worried about Susan, and teachers and students had a caring bond in 1960's. 

Diversion (Escapism):

Humans watch Doctor Who as an escapism from our world. And Susan uses school as an escapism from her grandfather/ alien. Different times + different universe.

Surveillance (Information / Facts):

Audience know that aliens like it n the earth. Audience learn time travel, space, and science.

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience?
  • Relationships: Grandfather - authority figure.
  • Isolated teenagers (misunderstood)
  • New technology, scientific possibility
4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?
  • Visceral Pleasure can be applied to An Unearthly Child when they took off (TARDIS).
  • Viscarious Pleasure can be applied to An Unearthly Child because of time travel (during the era of space race).
  • Voyeuristic Pleasure can be applied to An Unearthly Child when Susan argues with her grandfather.
5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.
  • Events
  • Fan-fiction
  • Fan edited
Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?
  • Only two TV channels in the UK in 1963: BBC and ITV.
  • Videotape had only been in use for seven years.
  • It allowed the BBC to create the space and time travel effect.
  • Considered amazing at the time
-Compared to the digital and streaming TV landscape of today, 1960's television was a different world.

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?
An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963 as it lacks detailed editing, but it achieves the futuristic technology due to the theme song.

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
Doctor Who became an important franchise for BBC because it helped them increase their budget and worldwide distribution.

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?
  • K9
  • Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Torchwood
  • Class
5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 
Doctor Who have loads of merchandise in order to gain mainstream audience this includes:
  • Board games
  • Action figures
  • Costume
  • DVD
  • Books
  • Magazines

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

INTRODUCTION TO TV DRAMA: BLOG TASK

  1) How does this  His Dark Materials  trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series? His Dark Materials trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series because it has a narrative, different types of characters, and the setting is located in different places. 2) What genre (or genres) are suggested by this  His Dark Materials  trailer? Genres suggested by His Dark Materials trailer are dramatic, mystery, and religion. 3) What kind of characters and narratives are introduced in this trailer? Characters that are introduced are protagonist antagonist, heroine. The narratives introduced is that in the beginning is normal/ usual, in the middle they tried to spy on the villains and they needed to reach their goal and claim their mission. 4) What settings appear in the trailer? Settings that appeared in the trailer are village, a house, an island, a jungle, a place that looks like a museum, road, a secret place like a lab. 5) Who do you think the target aud...
Read more

RECEPTION THEORY

1) The preferred reading of a media text is what the media wants the audience to see in a positive way. 2) The oppositional reading of media text is what the media doesn't want the audience to see. 3)  The trailer wants the audience to think that all kids are rebellion and they like to disobey their parents. It also wants the audience to think that teens are more likely to form a gang and that they like violence. 4) Young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer because not all young kids are as bad as them, and some other kids do have a plan for their future, it's just they find happiness through friends and social media. Also all human have different aspect in their lives, therefore kids also have different perspective of the world.   5) Write a 150+ word analysis of the McDonald's advert using preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings. Audience will more likely to give in to this advert. This is because by the look of the bu...
Read more

INDUSTRIES: OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL

  1) Why did Facebook buy Instagram for $1bn? Facebook bought Instagram for $1bn because they found out that the majority of  people use Instagram rather than Facebook, so they bought it, and they found out that the users of Instagram isn't just a photo sharing app, but it's become a competitive social network.  2) What are the benefits for media companies of vertical integration? Vertical integration is when a one conglomerate owns a different business that have the same chain of production and distribution. 3) What are the benefits for media companies of horizontal integration? The benefits for media companies of horizontal integration is that they let the company that they bought do what they used to do even though they are getting more famous than the company who bought them, because all the money that the company they bought will still be on their hands. 4) What is a subsidiary? Subsidiary is when the company is being controlled by a bigger company, which means they ...
Read more