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  1)   Television: Introduction to TV drama 2)  Doctor Who: Language and Representation 3)  Doctor Who: Audience and Industries 4)  His Dark Materials: Language and Representation 5)  His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries 6)  Industry contexts: the BBC and public service broadcasting

  Audience 1) Read this  audience rating guide for His Dark Materials . Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups?  You can  revise Pyschographics here .  It is aimed at teens as it has a age rating of 14 which means it can be watched with your family.  Aimed at a contemporary family audience for the BBC Sunday night broadcast slot (8.10pm).  Targeted at fans of the fantasy genre along with fans of the original books by Philip Pullman. 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:  Personal Relationships: The kids meet eachother and talk about what happened. Diversion (Escapism): Chasing the girls who they just met.  3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicar

  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.) The camera shots were fast paced and close ups. There was many scary and menacing sounds. The editing wasnt very complex and very simple.  2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the  fantasy TV genre ? This is because it has talking animals called "Daemons". It also has flying witches and monsters. 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 terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) 5) What examples of  binary opp