Film, Television and Music

Text-Genre/Representation

Industry

Audience

The Exam

Television

Music

Film

The 3 areas of the media we cover are Film, Television and Music

The question topics are, Audience, IndustryAnd Genre/Representation

Media We choose exam Question on;

Audience Response, Audience targeting CRASHGenre Conventions

Digital technology, Industry success and importance, Internet Impact, Regulations

Specific Question types

Lost series 1 Episode 2“The Pilot part 2”

Use Pages 7,8,9 to record notes

Exam Questions from the past 4 years, which link to T.V texts

Audience Targeting1.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 Response1.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?

You must back this up with theory and narrative descriptions (scenes)

gender, race, physical appearance, subcultures, dress and age

jack

kate

charly

johnHurley

soya

shannon

sayiidBoon

clare

sun

jin

walt

michael

Representationstereotypes

feminism

Lost

Audience

The use of an ensemble cast

Creating lost as a hybrid genre

The use of a neutral location within the narrative

Use of the ScoreUse of Enigma Codes

Narrative Structure

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 one or two of the narrative issues of different cultural and society group. For example stereotypical view points of; Hurley-large, Sayid- bias representation of foreign muslims, Shannon- “Vain unintelligent young Blonde” Reiginol accents and stereotyped characteristics that go with it.

1) An Ensemble Cast

Race Gender NationalityAge

This will of course attract a wider audience and conform to more areas of the uses and gratifications theory. Compare losts cas to simply having a all white, British, middle aged, middle class male cast.

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

*Frenetic chase scenes*High use of special

effects*Fast pace cut durations*increase tension throughout the text until a climax/ending*Love interest that both hinders and supports the main quest.*Use of Enigma codes

Action Fantasy

*Characters undertake a Quest*the use of supernatural phenomena as a primary element of narrative

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

3) Lost as a Hybrid genre

Genre Conventions;

Science Fiction

*The narrative explores rationally alternative possibilities*Unlikely events are justified by scientific theories*Discovery or application of new scientific principles

The use of Enigma CodesAn 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.

Narrative Structure – Todorov? Propp?

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.