Audience and Industry: blog tasks
1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? the target audience for Doctor Who would be around 10 and up. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - 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. diversion is used in multiple instances: when the TARDIS takes off and the cliff hanger at the end which also links to personal relationships because we wonder what is going to happen to them. Surveillance is another one, for instance they are able to teach history in Doctor Who. 3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience? Surveillance (Information / Facts): this episode gives us insight on how 1960s television looked . 4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthl