How has your chosen media text attracted its audience Peaky blinders

The text of Peaky blinders is a crime drama which is set in the town of Birmingham in the era of 1919 its setting appeals to most audiences who like a retro feel to there programmes they enjoy.Peaky blinders is a programme which is shown on BBC 2 this is important to be mentioned because BBC 2 is renowned for showing programmes which target art,culture,drama and some comedy to entertain its viewers. BBC 2 also shows a lot of high brow texts and because of this it gains a reputation from the audience meaning over time audience will watch BBC 2 to watch texts like peaky blinders that are high brow.Peaky blinders can also attract a passive audience as well as its active auidence this is because it contains various mainstream elements as well as achieving a intellectually and culturally rich text.The active audience may be appealed to Peaky blinders because of its high production and cinematography included meaning they enjoy viewing slowmo in a fight scene or other editing effects this also adds well to the genre of it being a crime drama adds action and tension to hook the audience into watching more of the programme.Peaky blinders can also gain a mainstream audience in a different way this is by having famous actors in the programme series which mainstream audiences will recognise and by doing so they might be interested to watch this regarding the fact it is meant for a active audience initially

Research on mad men
 A Review on the guardian quotes to back up what the audience feels about the season 5 episode 11
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/may/29/mad-men-episode-11         The person who wrote the review feels strongly towards characters and has their own view on what the characters do and feel in certain situations an example of this is the person has wrote about Pete Campbell and his choice to propose such a thing to Joan."I have not felt a loathing so visceral for a TV character in a long time, if ever. It wasn't just the depravity of his actions; his decision to actively pursue the idea of Joan selling her body so to improve SCDP's chances with Jaguar."
This proves its not a main stream programme because it lets the audience think and become active towards each of the characters an have their own view on their actions they perform this is what the AMC is trying to achieve by trying to make the series of mad man character driven instead of plot driven like LOST.

Mad men: Discuss the auidence appeal of the texts (30)

Within Mad men it appeals to its niche audience in various ways the main appeal is towards an older generation this is because the text uses a lot of nostalgia referring to the time of the setting by including some at rare times non diegetic music this either presents jazzy music of the 1960 or depressing music on the day when the company presented their car design because this has been a dodgy deal to twist the opposing votes in the companies favour.The audience uses this text to either use it for information or escapism.Starting with escapism people enjoy this type of niche media text because it doesn't make the audience think in the certain way it does this by not using any non diegetic music so the audience can have a view of each of the characters in their own way.Escapism is also affective on the audience who love nostalgia and can give them a break on reality to delve into a setting where the rules of the 1960s apply such as men was more dominent and powerful than women and being racist was more acceptable than it is today.Mad men can also be applied for infomation to learn and understand how things were in the 1960s this is not a bad source of it because the series tries to make it as realistic as possiable this is displayed within the mise en scene from the suits and clothing that the office people wore daily to the style of the flats and what people had back in those days.

 Media targets
1 spend more time writing more notes on prevoius topics done.

2 read more on the blog to help my study in media.

3 test myself with a practice question to see how well i do.

4 time myself doing a question or practing to see how fast i do it.
5 spend more time adding detail into work instead of just explaining an aspect breifly.

Scene from lost
Most media texts target a range of different audiences "how true is this for your chosen texts"
The programme of Lost is produced by the organisation of ABC this is specially well know for generating varoius mainstream tv programmes. Lost attracts a multi culture audience this is due to the fact that nearly all of the characters are of a different race such as british in the scene it also it a mainstream programme.Being mainstream Lost likes to include a lot of action and enigma codes within the scene where the characters face a polar bear the cameras tempo is very fast and switches between sawyer and sadaid as they argue between themselves this builds up the speed and then finally a loud diegetic sound of the poler bear breathing builds tension into the scene.Another aspect of mainstream is when they are running from the polar bear there is a short clip of Kate running while this is happening non dietetic fast paced sound plays building tension too.Finally once the scene as ending they realise that this is a polar bear they ponder this for a moment and suddenly the scene cuts of and as this happens a non diegetic loud gonging sound queues another enigma code and leaves the audience wanting to watch more and not questioning this make the audience become very passive.

Sin city genre analyse within scenes
How typical is their genre of comic book and film noir in sin city?

The genre of sin city is of comic book and film noir this is shown throughout all of the conventions and connotations,presented through the use of diegetic and non diegtic sound and indicated within the narrative themes.
The first scene i will analyse is the opening scene of the film it sets of in a city upon rooftops where a female character is wearing a red dress with red lipstick on in the black and white back ground the red dress and lipstick portray that of a sense of danger about to unfold.Within the scene it rains and is rather dark the lighting is very low key the female in it is shown to be a femme fatale because she smokes and the way the camera presents her gives an area of mystery about her these are all classic film noir conventions.
When looking at the comic book conventions we see a scene for a moment where the reality turns into a 2d black and white silhouette everything is drawn as if it came from a comic book when the kiss,another indicator is when the scene pans out from the rooftops moves onto the actors who play parts the words"sin city" convert from the buildings into a comic book style. Also non diegetic music starts to play this gives the sense of a comic book feel that many comic book films throughout the years have used for example spider man or batman the movie.

The second scene im going to analyse is the section when Hartigan and Bob try to save Nancy from Junior the film noir connotations are presented in the form of when Hartigan is trying to get to Nancy he knocks out Bob because there is a sense of no trust later on in the scene this is proven to become true when Bob shoots Hartigan down,When trying to save Nancy the scene also shows very bleak scenery and low key lighting is used to add to the effect.
Comic book genre is presented in this scene when Bob shoots Hartigan he is still alive it takes a few shoots to make him unconscious this also happens with Juinor his hand gets shot of and he gets shot but he is still alive this shows the super human abilities given to characters just like in comic books.There is also the part when Hartigen suffers from his heart condition he falls to the ground and there is dialogue that tells him to get up and stop messing around this is also another connotation in comic books to support hero's in times of struggle to save the princess.

Fish tank (2009)

How is the narrative represented in social realism?

In the film fish tank it tends to present the text in the way in which real life is presented with all its difficulties this links with the theory of Todorov as it cannot really be applied to the whole situation with the films story line mainly because there is a lot of issues involved in the film, including the scene where the horse is chained up and Mia has a connection with it to herself so she attempts to break it free however gets caught by gypsy's and tries to escape.Lots of equilibrium breaking scenes happen throughout the film trying to represent that not everything goes well in life in comparison to other genres of films for example romance always has a good ending.The only time in the film that shows a re equilibrium is at the end of the film this is presented by the first time she is on equal terms with her mother because they dance together and respectively say farewell to each other,when leaving the house a clip of a balloon flying away from her house is shown this shows a sense of relief that she is finally able to escape from being trapped in the situation she was in and finally able to start a new life which may be for a much better life style and environment.

The theory of Propp cannot be really applied to this text because there is no main hero's and main villain's its just a reflection on what real life is and in real life its not like a fantasy where people have set roles they change there roles through there actions.However in a particular scene Mia kidnaps Connors daughter because she is angry that he has left problems onto her and ran away without telling her, so Propps theory can be applied here because Mia is appearing as a villain forcing his daughter to come along dragging her by her arm whereas Connors daughter is dressed like a princess and is weak,struggling and in need of help.

Strauss's theory isn't found much within fish tank because of its genre being a social realism film there are no strong binary oppositions that do occur but it does reflects of some oppositions that might be strong .An example of this is in the sense of Mia always wanting to be different than her mother every time they meet they are opposites to each other and Mia always tries to find another way to try to escape from her life to gain a better one but in real life everything doesn't work out as it is mean to. Such as in the scenes where she practices to be a hip hop dancer then once she gets a chance at the audition she gives up and realizes that this isn't the path for her in life.

How is genre represented in fish tank?

The genre of social realism is represented in various ways one of the ways is within the type camera shots they use.In the first opening scene is when Mia walks out of the house the main shot is a tracking shot this is very good to show its genre as it presents it from as realistic point of view as if you personality were there walking behind the character watching everything in her life take place,later on in the scene it gives us a point of view shot this is another great way of making the audience appear to be there by seeing what Mia is viewing in her life making it real.Another important connotation they used to make it sound real is using little or no non diegetic sound at all however diegetic sound will be improved to make important or off scene actions clearer but for the most part the film bases of real life sounds of the surrounds for example when she is walking down the highway cars are heard which seems to over lap her voice just like in real life.

How is representation presented in fish tank?

Throughout the film a lot of representations are shown both of males and females.The females in it are mainly sexualised by the males this is shown in the scene where Mia dances in front of Connor his eyes focus onto her body as she dances the camera does this process too which makes it appear to the audience that they are looking straight at the male gaze from the eyes of the character Connor. In another scene female gaze is present too this is against muvleys theory when Mia observes Connor when he walks into the kitchen topless the camera does the same process as to when the males look at the women focusing on body part making the audience see what she is seeing.Most females are shown as sexualised objects even from a young age this is clearly shown when there is a gang of young girls  dancing wearing lose fitted and revealing clothing in front of a gang of older guys also being rather sexualised but the focus is generally males gaze towards females because  the gang of older guys are watching the girls dance in front of them and we know this because of the use of the shots looking at the men who are watching then towards the girls who are dancing..