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  Industries 1)  What was the objective of BBC3 when it was launched? You can find the answer in the notes above. It was a channel for young people . 2) Why did BBC3 go online-only in February 2016?   To try appeal to a young audience like people that watch on streaming services like . 3) How does  Class  meet the BBC's mission statement to 'inform, educate and entertain'? It is entertaining and diverse . 4) How did the distribution of  Class  contribute to the failure of the show with audiences? They did not know when to schedule it . 5) What advertising and marketing was used to try and promote  Class  to an audience? Why do you think this wasn't very successful? Trailers which made it look like doctor who when it was different . Audience 1) What were the viewing figures for  Class  and why do you think it did so badly? Look at the notes above to find out the answers.  0.28 million . They showed it late and did it in double e...

  Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? 8-70 . No most of the audience are from that age . 2) What  audience psychographic groups  might particularly enjoy Doctor Who? People that are explorers have interest in suspence and sci-fi .Also succeders and rich people because not many people had a TV in 1963 . 3) What audience pleasures are offered by An Unearthly Child? 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: People would want to be like the Doctor and be wise . Personal Relationships: With Susan as she went to school and young people will relate to it . Diversion (Escapism):People will find entertainment in doctor who and it will be an escape from reality . Surveillance (Information / Facts): People will see the school . 4) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  mod...

  Social and Historical context 1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s? Unearthly means not from earth , in the 1960's there was a big space race between USSR and USA . 2) How might audiences have felt towards science fiction in the 1960s? They might of thought it was fake and abnourmal . Language and close-textual analysis 1) Choose  three  key moments in the episode and write an  NCIS  analysis for those clips. You can use your notes from the screening in class.  Make specific, detailed references using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) An Unearthly Child scene analysis Narrative:  The teachers are looking for Susan but get trapped in the TARDIS with the doctor . Character: Susan is an alien and weird , doctor is suspicious , Ian is brave , Barbara is irrelavant . Iconography: The TARDIS is a weird room . Setting: TARDIS and school . ...

  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: you started the assessment pretty well but dropped off towards the end . Is this due to exam technique or revision ?  EBI: revise social/cultural contexts and how media text refleccts British values . Revise OMO and historical contexts . 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question: Q1: 2 Q2: 4 Q3: 1 Q4: 1 Q5: 3 3) Did you get any  media terminology  wrong in the assessment? If yes, make a note of the right answer here for future revision:  Connote , and correct phrases . 4) Look specifically at  question 2  - the unseen media analysis. Pick out  three  points from the mark scheme that you didn't include in your analysis of the Grazia magazine cover.  Analysis of product , explanation , audience representatoin , class ...