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  Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumer 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: Personal Relationships: Diversion (Escapism): Surveillance (Information / Facts): 3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience? 4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child? 5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples. Industries 1)  What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there? 2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963? 3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BB...

 Language and close-textual analysis 1) Write an analysis of the episode - using your notes from the screening in class.  Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) You can currently  watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here . Camerawork, editing and sound:  Mise-en-scene: Narrative and genre:  You can  access our notes from the close-textual analysis in a previous class here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to open this. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the fantasy TV genre? 3)  Applying Propp's character theory, what character roles do some of the main characters in His Dark Materials fit into?  4) What enigma and action codes (Barthes) can you find in His Dark Materials? Make specific, detailed reference to the text using media term...

  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 - Q2 is a very strong so now the challenge is to hit that level throughout.  EBI - Learn the key conventions 2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 1 Q2: 6 Q3: 3 Q4: 3 Q5: 2 3)  Look specifically at question 2. Use the indicative content in the mark scheme for question 2 to write three connotations of the design and layout of Tatler. 4) Now look at question 3 - Heat magazine.  Use the indicative content in the mark scheme to write three ways celebrities are represented in Heat magazine. 5) Look at question 5 - Arctic Monkeys and audience identity. This is a real AQA past question with lots of potential answers given in the mark scheme. Choose three answers that specifically refer to the Arctic Monkeys CSP...

  1) How does this His Dark Materials trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series? 2) What genre (or genres) are suggested by this His Dark Materials trailer? 3) What kind of characters and narratives are introduced in this trailer? 4) What settings appear in the trailer? 5) Who do you think the target audience for His Dark Materials is? Give reasons for your answer.

  Language and contexts respect men wembley 1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or this Google document of class notes (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound:  The door creaking in he junkard Mise-en-scene: Dark and gloomy and eerie Narrative and genre: Old v young  2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of  Doctor Who?  Todorov's Equilibrium:  Propp's character theory: Susan protagonist, Doctor Villain, Teachers hero Barthes's enigma and action codes: Cliff-hanger leaving audience puzzled as to wheel he took them   Levi-Strauss's binary opposition: Doctor fighting Ian verbally 3) In your opinion, what is the most important scene in the episode and why? The most important scene is when the Doctor ignores Barbara which reinforces stereotypes in the 1960s showing how much society has changed since then. 4) ...