Today we watch the opening five minutes of our tv drama text on Clickview and relate what we learned last lesson about:
- audience pleasures (why audiences enjoyed watching it). What is their relationship like?
- how Emma Peel is presented (including why her representation reflects the 1960s when it was made). Listen to what she reveals about herself.
- how John Steed is presented (including why his representation reflects the 1960s when it was made). How does he come across?
PREP Write about the first five minutes of the tv programme, analysing it, as suggested above. Do your prep tonight (the night it is set) and email it to me. The more detail, the better.
Think about what we heard in the documentary last lesson.
To find the tv programme, look on ClickView > Media Studies > J200 Television
In today's lesson, we went over the uses and gratifications model of audience behaviour: that audiences use media to gratify needs
The Uses and Gratifications audience framework offered by Blumler and Katz suggests that audiences use media to gratify needs for:
- escapism, entertainment, diversion
- surveillance (finding out what's going on in the world)
- forming relationships (both with on-screen figures and in real life through sharing pleasures with friends & family)
- shared values and beliefs (we identify with certain people as heroes, hope that villains will be defeated, want a particular set of values to be restored and so on)
