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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Target Audience Profiles

A Target Audience profile create a fictitious person who would be a typical audience member for your product. It is easier to create a media product with an particular individual in mind than when trying to address a large range of people.

Target Audience profiles also focus on the consumer and by considering what other products this person would buy (in the media and for entertainment) it helps the artistic director pitch the style that this person might like. This process also helps us identify the kind of advertising the magazine (or whatever product we are designing) would carry to reach the target audience.

Here is an example of a target audience profile for a High School Musical style film.

This is a target audience profile for a music magazine aimed at teenage girls.

A techno music magazine for teenage boys.


Monday, 23 May 2011

Radio discussion on how Sci-Fi films encode reality - or mask unreality.

Follow the link below to a discussion on Radio 4 where Alan Rutherford talks to Brian Cox, among other on how reailty is constructed by Hollywood Sci-Fi films. Being a science programme, the discussion considers how far scientists are involved with film and programme making in order to make the scientifically accurate - or 'real' in a scientific way. It is an interesting discussion to hear all the way through but the section beginning at 16 minutes, 45 seconds considers how film language has to distort scientific 'reality' in order for the audience to believe what they are seeing. how does this fit with Baudrillard's four stages of simulation? Is science fiction a form of hyperreality - or is the pact with the audience that this is more fiction than science and therefore automatically unbelievable?

Click here then click on the "Listen" button on the website. Move the programme slider to 16:45.

Newswipe Haiti - does the news present reality?

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

OCR Jan 2009 extract G322 - Monarch of the Glen



How is the representation of age constructed in this extract through cinematography, sound, editing and mise-en-scene?