Doctor who industry and audience

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 Audience

1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963?

The current target audience for doctor who nowadays is young adults who are interested in a mix of genres ranging from sci-fi to romance. In the 1960's, the target audience was older men who liked watching any sort of TV.

2) What audience psychographic groups might particularly enjoy Doctor Who?

3) What audience pleasures are offered by 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: teenagers can relate to susan through her typical hairstyle and use of a cassette player to play music.

Personal Relationships: the teachers act like parents for susan

The teachers and susan and her grandfather

Diversion (Escapism): The tardis escaping earth

Surveillance (Information / Facts):

Learning through school lessons

4) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020 audience?

It would offend many modern audiences as it portrays the man being the hero

5) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?

The visual pleasure comes from seeing the tardis and wondering how it may work


Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?

The television industry was very small with only 2 channels being available

2) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 

Because it is the oldest running television show for the bbc and also the most iconic

3) How does Doctor Who meet the BBC's mission statement to 'inform, educate and entertain'?

4) How is the BBC funded?

Television licenses

5) Who regulates the BBC and what is the watershed?

OfCOM regulates the bbc and the watershed is a period of time where media channels are allowed to broadcast mature content.

Doctor Who: Language and Representation blog tasks

 Social and Historical context

1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s?

The historical setting is demonstrated by Susan's usage of a cassette player to listen to music, which is old and in today's age we would use phones. Furthermore, higher intelligence was strange as Susan was investigated by her teachers.

2) How might audiences have felt towards science fiction in the 1960s?

When doctor who was released, it was the first of its genre, as no other show had covered sci fi ever before. During the time that doctor who was released, the space was ongoing, which intrigued others to learn about science fiction.ds

Language and close-textual analysis

1) Choose three key moments in the episode and write an NCIS analysis for those clips. You can use your notes from the screening in class. Make specific, detailed references using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.)

An Unearthly Child scene analysis

Narrative: Teachers discover a student's backstory

Character: History teacher, Science teacher and student

Iconography: Police box (TARDIS) Eerie sounds (doctor who theme)

Setting: Classroom and junkyard

2) How does Todorov's theory of equilibrium apply to An Unearthly Child? Try and use the expanded version of Todorov's theory: Equilibrium - Disruption - Recognition - Reparation - New equilibrium.

The previous equilibrium is before Susan came to the school,the problem is Susan struggling in certain classes,the resolution is finding out that Susan and her grandfather are both exiled aliens but then the new equilibrium is that they all land on a alien planet.

3) Applying Propp's character theory, what character roles do each of the main characters in An Unearthly Child fit into? Alternatively, you may wish to discuss how characters do not fit Propp's character types.

Ian is a hero and Barbara is a helper but the doctor is the villain

4) What enigma and action codes (Barthes) can you find in An Unearthly Child? Make specific, detailed reference to the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.)

An enigma could be Susan's strange actions such as being rebellious and her dancing

Representations

1) What stereotypes of men are reinforced and subverted in Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child? How?

Ian is a hero so the sterotypes are reinforced

2) What stereotypes of women/girls are reinforced and subverted in Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child? How?

Susan reinforces sterotypes because of her traditional hairstyle but subverts them because she is rebellious

3) What are common media stereotypes of young people and old people? Do any of the characters or scenarios reinforce or subvert these conventional stereotypes (consider this was 1963)? 

Young people are seen as rebellious but old people are seen as more wise who can make better decisions and save other people.

4) What representations of race/ethnicity can be found in Doctor Who: An Earthly Child? Is this surprising or not? Give reasons for your answer and consider historical / cultural context (the 1960s). Has this changed in more recent series of Doctor Who?

Most if not all characters were white however nowadays there are a mix of races

5) How is social class represented in An Unearthly Child? Think about how education and knowledge is presented in the episode.

Most people are white middle class in the episode which shows a superiority of race

Advertising & Magazines assessment: Learner response

 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: A brilliant effort shreyam, well done!

Strong response to analyse unseen media product (Q2)

Good focus on how Tatler reflects social and cultural

British values (Q3)

Good comments on how OMO reflects social historical and cultural contexts.

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:

Q1: 2
Q2: 9
Q3: 6

Q4:1

Q5:9

3) Did you get any media terminology wrong in the assessment? If yes, make a note of the right answer here for future revision: 

Sub text - Cover lines

4) Look specifically at question 2 - the unseen media analysis. Pick out three points from the mark scheme that you didn't include in your analysis of the Grazia magazine cover. 

Royalty

Colour scheme

Cover lines


5) Now look at question 5. Use the mark scheme to identify three points you could have made regarding the historical contexts of the OMO advert.                                                                                                                              

Expectations of woman

Makeup

Facial expressions

                                                                                                                                                         

Television: Introduction to Science-fiction TV drama

1) How does Class meet the conventions of a TV drama series?

It includes an ensemble cast, specific narrative codes and a dramatic narrative

2) What conventions of the science-fiction genre can you find in the Class trailer? List as many as you can and use NCIS to help you.

It contains space exploration, new dimensions and planets which contain aliens and technology which is very advanced and ahead of current human technology

3) What other genres are suggested by the trailer (e.g. horror)? Is Class an example of a modern hybrid-genre show?

It is a hybrid show as it shows themes of romance and horror

4) Class is a spin-off from Doctor Who. At what point does the character of the Doctor appear in the trailer?

The doctor from doctor who appears at the end to entice people who already watch doctor who

5) Who do you think the target audience for Class is? Is this a typical target audience for the science-fiction genre? Give reasons for your answer.

The target audience for Class are sci fi fans who are male adults and are already interested in shows such as doctor who