Tuesday, 18 April 2017

KEY DATES

BIG REVISION DAY AT HARRIS ACADEMY BECKENHAM
Wednesday 26th April 2017 AM only - compulsory.


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All blogs to be completed and signed off by Friday 21st April 2017.
Final amendments to be done during next week.


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OCR BIG MODERATION DAY AT HARRIS ACADEMY BECKENHAM
Wednesday 3rd May 2017 - LA to attend.


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OCR AS MEDIA EXAM
18th May 2017


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Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Audiences - links to question 4 of evaluation

Studying and cataloging audiences is one of the most important aspects of media production and media studies. Every media product is targeted at specific audiences... however there are media products that are aimed at a MASS AUDIENCES - can you think of any products that have mass audience appeal?




Media products that have a much narrower audience appeal are said to have a NICHE audience. Amongst some of these products are HOBBIE magazines,  even certain kinds of films, and especially TV Game Shows.




In order to analyse audiences effectively we need to use stereotypes, do you know what stereotype means?




Below is a table that describes how audiences are catalogued in the media industry: