Audience Notes.
• The audience is seen as being very easily manipulated who are persuaded into the product or buying a product.
• Also the media text can lead the audience to behave in different ways.
Historical Background:
150 years ago, photography, film, television, radio and computers were seen as fantasies. Also people before used to make their own entertainment as they did not get television or computers around that time therefore improvised in shows and creating their own media.
The majority of our time is spent on media such as watching the TV and getting really interested into the story line which makes us block out everything that us going on around us same with a mobile phone, this seems to split people up as we spend the majority of our time by ourselves or in small groups and the media splits us up in our groups and drags the audience in, such as video games and portable television screens. However you can argue against this as media does also bring us together. Such as watching a soap which maybe the rest of Britain have watched, the same series therefore brings us together as people get together and talk about what had happened as they have experienced the same media. So basically wherever you go the audience for a media text are all receiving exactly the same thing.
In the early history of the media, within less than 100 years photography, film, radio and television were all invented. Now film and television is availiable to almost everyone.
• The audience is seen as being very easily manipulated who are persuaded into the product or buying a product.
• Also the media text can lead the audience to behave in different ways.
Historical Background:
150 years ago, photography, film, television, radio and computers were seen as fantasies. Also people before used to make their own entertainment as they did not get television or computers around that time therefore improvised in shows and creating their own media.
The majority of our time is spent on media such as watching the TV and getting really interested into the story line which makes us block out everything that us going on around us same with a mobile phone, this seems to split people up as we spend the majority of our time by ourselves or in small groups and the media splits us up in our groups and drags the audience in, such as video games and portable television screens. However you can argue against this as media does also bring us together. Such as watching a soap which maybe the rest of Britain have watched, the same series therefore brings us together as people get together and talk about what had happened as they have experienced the same media. So basically wherever you go the audience for a media text are all receiving exactly the same thing.
In the early history of the media, within less than 100 years photography, film, radio and television were all invented. Now film and television is availiable to almost everyone.
Audiences are classes in different groups to split them up, showing what they are classed as detreming what they do as a living and how old they are.
A:
Upper middle class
Top management, bankers, lawyers, doctors and other professionals
Upper middle class
Top management, bankers, lawyers, doctors and other professionals
B:
Middle class
Middle management, teachers, many 'creatives' eg graphic designers,
C1:
Lower middle class
Office supervisors, junior managers, nurses, specialist clerical staff,
Office supervisors, junior managers, nurses, specialist clerical staff,
C2:
Skilled working class
Skilled workers, tradespersons (white collar),
Skilled workers, tradespersons (white collar),
D:
Working class
Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers (blue collar)
Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers (blue collar)
E:
People at lowest level of income
Unemployed, students, pensioners, casual workers
Unemployed, students, pensioners, casual workers
