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His dark materials- Audience and industry

  1) What audience do you think His Dark Materials is aimed at and why? Think about demographic and psychographic groups. Teens - 20+ 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: Friendships, loss, isolation. teenage protagonists Personal Relationships: Will represents enigma character unuse to magic character, children need protection Diversion (Escapism): Supernatural different worlds talking animals 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.  Visceral: Exciting action and magical moments make you feel strong emotions. Vicarious: You feel like you’re on the adventure with the characters....
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Doctor who- Lang and representation

  2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of  Doctor Who ?   Todorov's Equilibrium:   The episode starts with everything normal, then something goes wrong, and by the end, the Doctor fixes it and everything goes back to normal.  Propp's character theory:   The Doctor is the hero, the companion helps out, the villain causes trouble, and other characters have roles like guiding or helping the hero.   Barthes's enigma and action codes: The story is full of mysteries the Doctor needs to solve (enigma codes) and events that push the plot forward, like battles or big choices (action codes).  Levi-Strauss's binary opposition:  T he episode shows contrasts like good vs. bad (Doctor vs. villain) or chaos vs. order, creating tension between these opposites.  3) In your opinion, what is the most important scene in the episode and why? In my opinion, the most important scene is when the Doctor faces...
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Doctor Who: Audience and Industry blog tasks

  1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? The target audience for Doctor Who has always been families and kids, but over time it's also drawn in more teens and adults who love sci-fi and adventure. 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:  Viewers might relate to characters like the curious and brave teachers, Ian and Barbara, or feel like Susan if they've ever felt different or misunderstood. Personal Relationships: The show gives people something to talk about with friends or family, like guessing who the Doctor really is or what might happen next.   Diversion (Escapism): The time travel and strange TARDIS take viewers away from normal life into an exciting world, like when they suddenly end up in the Stone Age. Surveillan...
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advertising assessment LR

  1) Type up your  WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).  WWW- able to explore the social cultural and historical contexts of adverts of adverts with reference to omo csp EBI- Revise advertising conventions revise both galaxy and nhs represent csps red the questions carefully to respond to task 2) Read the  mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 0/2 Q2: 7/12 Q3: 3/6 Q4: 5/12 3)  Look specifically at  question 2  - the OMO 12-mark question. Pick out  three  points from the mark scheme that you didn't include in your answer.  - Specialist terminology is used appropriately and effectively throughout. -Notions of what a ‘real woman’ was – somebody who looks after the home. • Mass production of washing machines/twin tubs etc. This eased the burden on women. 4) Now look at  question 3...
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magazine final index

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Music Video: Final index

  1)  Music Video: Introduction 2)  Music Video: BLACKPINK - How You Like That CSP 3)  Music Video: Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor CSP
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Language and Representation: blog tasks

2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?    Todorov's Equilibrium:   The episode starts with everything normal, then something goes wrong, and by the end, the Doctor fixes it and everything goes back to normal.  Propp's character theory:     The Doctor is the hero, the companion helps out, the villain causes trouble, and other characters have roles like guiding or helping the hero.    Barthes's enigma and action codes: The story is full of mysteries the Doctor needs to solve (enigma codes) and events that push the plot forward, like battles or big choices (action codes).  Levi-Strauss's binary opposition:  The episode shows contrasts like good vs. bad (Doctor vs. villain) or chaos vs. order, creating tension between these opposites.  3) In your opinion, what is the most important scene in the episode and why? In my opinion, the most important scene is when the Doctor faces the villain for t...
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