Monday, 24 November 2025

Audience: Reception Theory

 1) What is the preferred reading of a media text?

the meaning the producer intends for the audiences to understand

2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text?


3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film?


4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer?


5) Write a 150+ word analysis of the McDonald's advert using preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings.


Monday, 17 November 2025

Introduction to Media - index so far

Demographics and Psychographics

 1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience?

They use  age, D.O.B, social class, race, profession and, home

2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics?
Because it is easy to profile them and is way quirkier.  

3) What are the seven different Psychographic groups? 
mainstream, the aspirer, the reformer, the explorer, the succeeder, the resigned, the struggler.


4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by.
the aspirer=materialistic, the reformer=independent judgement, the explorer=new ideas, the succeeder=self-confidence, the resigned=survive, the struggler= victims, the mainstream=we rather than me 

5) What psychographic group or groups do YOU belong in? Think about your own interests and lifestyle and explain your decision. Remember, you may fit into two or three different groups! 

think i belong in the reformer because i only valuing my judgement not what other people think about me. and also in the succeeder because im am very organised. 

Monday, 10 November 2025

demographic research

 


Age = set for 12-16

Gender = mostly meant for male but any one can watch it if they want 

Social class = any social class can watch this show 

race/ethnicity = any race can watch this tv show

Job = you would need a job to pay for Netflix which is £12.99

home = this was set in Miami, Florida in 2006 -2013
  

Audience: Reception Theory

  1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? the meaning the producer intends for the audiences to understand 2) What is the oppositi...