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Key Aspect - Audience
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Heavy Theory Warning!!!
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Audience – Lesson Intentions Learn about how media companies
construct audiencesThree Theories on Audience- Hypodermic Theory- Uses and Gratifications- Audience Reception Theory Learn about the use of Audience in
“Little Miss Sunshine”
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Audience 'Audience' is a very important
concept throughout media studies. All media texts are made with an
audience in mind. Money
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Constructing Audience
"Does the text have an audience?" If no one is going to watch/read/play/buy
the text, the producers aren't going to make any money or get their message across.
Audience research
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Audience Research Demographics income bracket/status age gender race location Education Marital status By finding this information out about
possible audiences they can use this to inform the creative process and the marketing of that product.
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Income Bracket Look at the following income brackets
and I will ask you to place professions in the bracket you think they belong to.
In a game I like to call “ Mmm I wonder how rich my parents are compared to my friends’ parents”
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A
B
C1
C2
D
E
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ATop management, bankers, lawyers, doctors and other
highly salaried professionals
BMiddle management, teachers,
many 'creatives' eg graphic designers etc
C1Office supervisors, junior
managers, nurses, specialist clerical staff etc
C2Skilled workers, tradespersons
(white collar)
DSemi-skilled and unskilled
manual workers (blue collar)
EUnemployed, students,
pensioners, casual workers
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Audience Research – What different ways to research audience can you think of? Questionnaires, Focus groups, Comparisons to existing media texts Blogging and Social Network sites Media companies spend a great deal
of time and money finding out if there is anyone out there who might be interested in their idea.
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Audience Theories
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Audience theories - Hypodermic Theory
Idea that audience is passive: Media is so powerful it can inject audiences
with message Assumes audience is an empty vessel, “sitting
back”, waiting to be entertained Media presents few challenges to the audience Audience can be easily influenced, e.g. violent
movies will cause them to act violently
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Task – Can you think of any high profile examples of films that have been accused of effecting behaviour?
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Image of a British World War One recruiting poster Origin: A British
recruitment poster which would have come out before conscription was introduced in January 1916.
Motive: To encourage men in Britain to enlist in the New Armies.
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Who do you think is the target audience for this poster? Audience: Men who are eligible to
enlist and who are in the right age group. This changed over time but ranged from 19-40 years.
This poster would not be aimed at skilled workers in occupations required by the Government.
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What features or techniques are used to appeal to the target audience?Content: The symbol - John Bull represents the
British people, note the Union Jack waistcoat.
Personal appeal - Use of Question -'Who's Absent? Is it You?'
The finger pointing at the reader -'You'. Soldiers waiting in the background for 'your' response.
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Other features to note: Brevity of language. Simple message - easy to
comprehend by a reader walking past.
The poster's message is obvious because many people would not stop to read a poster.
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Audience Theory – Uses & Gratifications During the 1960s, as the first generation to
grow up with television became grown ups, it became increasingly apparent to media theorists that audiences made choices about what they did when consuming texts.
Consumed texts for different reasons and in different ways:
surveillance correlation entertainment cultural transmission
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Audience Theory – Uses and Gratifications Researchers Blulmer and Katz expanded this
theory and published their own in 1974, stating that individuals might choose and use a text for the following purposes (ie uses and gratifications):
Diversion Personal Relationships Personal Identity Surveillance Since then, the list of Uses and Gratifications has
been extended, particularly as new media forms have come along (eg video games, the internet)
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Uses and Gratifications
Diversion - escape from everyday problems and routine.
Personal Relationships - using the media for emotional and other interaction.
Personal Identity - finding yourself reflected in texts, learning behaviour and values from texts.
Surveillance - Information which could be useful for living eg) weather reports, financial news, holiday bargains
Task – Can you think of any programmes/films that you use for each of the above Uses/Gratifications and list them in your jotter.
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The Uses and Gratifications Approach has five basic assumptions. The audience is conceived as active. The initiative in linking need gratification and
media choice lies with the audience member. The media competes with other sources of
need satisfaction. Many of the goals media use can be derived
from data supplied by the individual audience members themselves
It is the individual audience members who make the decision to view the media; therefore, they place the value on it by their individual decision to view it.
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Reception Theory(Stuart Hall)
Extending the concept of an active audience still further, in the 1980s and 1990s a lot of work was done on the way individuals received and interpreted a text, and how their individual circumstances affected their reading.
Gender Class, Age Ethnicity
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Reception Theory - The Encoding/decoding Model Audiences vary in their responses to media messages:
social position, age, gender, ethnicity,
occupation, experience beliefs where they are what they are
doing
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Audience Reception Theory – Preferred Reading However, by using recognised codes and
conventions, the producers can create a certain amount of agreement on what meaning should be taken from a text.
Preferred Reading – The meaning the film makers want you to agree with them from the text.
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Audience Reception Theory An audience may not always accept the preferred meaning Below are three kinds
of audience response: Preferred – this position is established
when the audience takes full preferred meaning offered by the text. (this is the hope of producers)
Negotiated – This position is established when there is a mixture of adaptation and opposition to the dominant codes.
Oppositional – this is established then the preferred reading is understood but rejected. It may also be reconstructed drawing on alternative values and attitudes.
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Polysemy
Idea that a number of different readings are possible.
Some texts are more open to different readings than others and, consequently, referred to as polysemic.
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McDonalds want you to think....
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You may agree
Or.....
You may disagree
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Or.....
You may think that big macs do taste good, but I’ll only have them every now and again
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So here we have three separate readings of that one advert
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Hello, my name is David Morley . In 1980 I did a study of
audience responses when watching the BBC TV show Spotlight. As a result of my
research, I reckon that audiences tend to fall into three
groups based on their interpretation of the text.....
Preferred Reading
Negotiated Reading
Oppositional Reading
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The preferred reading is the reading media producers hope audiences will take from the
text.
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Audience members from outside the
target audience may reject the preferred
reading,receiving their own
alternative message.
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Negotiated reading is when audiences acknowledge the
preferred reading, but modify it to
suit their own values and opinions.
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Audience - theories
2) Uses and Gratifications Audience is active: they use the
media text to satisfy needs for entertainment, information and identification.
Audiences engage, “read” the text, do something with it.
Audiences are not simply influenced by the text – they make their own use of it.
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Audience - theories
Modern Ideas: Audience decodes the text – the message
(preferred reading) may not arrive as intended.
Same text can be received differently Accepted Negotiated Opposed/rejected.
Texts are constructed to produce a preferred reading but because the text exists in the real world and is read by individuals with different experiences and backgrounds, it can be challenged and modified.
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Measuring a Film’s Success Figures are based on box office receipts, rather than the
number of people who have actually seen the movie. Subtract the production costs of a movie from the box office receipts to find out how much money it made, and therefore how successful it has been in the profit-driven movie business. Be aware that a film which does not cost much to make and takes even a modest amount at the box office can be considered a greater success than a big action movie which cost more, has a bigger set of box office receipts (ie lots more people went to see it) but has a smaller profit margin.
Also be aware that film companies are very coy about publishing production costs of a movie, and that they rarely include the cost of a film's marketing budget, which is probably at least a third again of the production costs, and is frequently more. in some cases, the marketing budget may exceed the cost of originally making the film, especially for an indie hit that is picked up for mainstream distribution
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Little Miss Sunshine – Box Office Figures Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $59,891,098 59.6% + Foreign:
$40,632,083 40.4% = Worldwide: $100,523,181
Domestic Summary Release Dates: July 26, 2006 (limited)
August 18, 2006 (wide) Limited Opening Weekend: $370,998 (#20 rank, 7 theaters, $52,999 average) Wide Opening Weekend: $5,610,845 (#7 rank, 691 theaters, $8,119 average) % of Total Gross: 9.4% > View All 35 Weekends Widest Release: 1,602 theaters Close Date: March 29, 2007 In Release: 247 days / 35.3 weeks