DOCTOR WHO: AUDIENCE AND INDUSTRY

 Audience


1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?
-The target audience for Doctor Who are mainstream, ages 10-40+, and people who prefers to watch scientific and futuristic genre.

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.

Personal Identity: Personally relating to the characters - Teenagers feeling rebellious and caring bond: teachers and student.

Personal Relationships: Affection for characters/actors - Worry about the teachers. Is Doctor Who the Hero or Villain?

Diversion (Escapism): Entertainment - Universe and era.

Surveillance (Information / Facts): Knowing new information that you did not already know/learning - Space, 2024 we can learn about the TV and people in 1963.

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience?
  • Relationships: Grandfather - authority figure
  • isolated tennagers (misunderstood)
  • New technology, scientific possibility

4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?
  • Visceral Pleasure - When the TARDIS is taking off - going to space.
  • Vicarious Pleasure - When the teachers getting worried, going off to space.
  • Voyeuristic Pleasure - When Susan had a conflict with her grandad on wanting to stay on earth.

5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.
  • Events 
  • fan fictions
  • fan edited trailers

Industries 

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?
-Only two channels BBC and ITV. Video tape had only been made in use for seven years. It allowed the BBC to create the space and time travel effects.

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?
-The An Unearthly child reflect the level of technology in the UK industry in 1963 as the series are shown in only black and white, it also has a poor quality.

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
-Doctor Who is such an important franchise for the BBC as it is a co-production with the global media conglomerate Disney, bigger budget and worldwide distribution.

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?
  • K9
  • Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Class
5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 
-Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available as it helps to obtain more fans and let them be recognized by mainstream audience.
  • T-shirts
  • Books
  • Toys
  • Pin badge
  • Collectable figures

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