Audience Task

20/09/2013




1)

The intended audience for the television show 'Don't Tell The Bride' is women aged (20 - 30), as people tend to get married between these ages and therefore, they can more easily relate to the women in the show. The Uses and Gratifications that the programme meets include gaining insight into circumstances of others, filling time, seeking advice on practical matters or opinion and decision choices and finding models of behaviour. Women may watch it in order to gain ideas for a wedding of their own, to fill in any free time they may have or simply because they find it entertaining to watch. The show represents the brides in quite a negative way, making them appear ungrateful and dramatic as often as possible. The producers filmed hours of footage and picked clips that are the  most entertaining (mostly clips of the grooms doing something embarrassing or wrong, or the brides getting angry or upset about something), in order to keep the audience watching.

 

2)

The audience that the programme 'Suburgatory' is intended for is mainly teenage girls, because the main character, Tessa is a teenage girl and therefore, the audience can relate to her and the story lines easily. People find it easier to identify with people who are like them and so, people may feel a connection with the characters. The Uses and Gratifications that this programme meets include finding models of behaviour, identifying with others, filling time and emotional release. Viewers may watch the programme because they want to be like the characters in it, they can relate to story lines and characters, they have nothing else to do or because they find the show particularly entertaining. The programme is constructed in a way to make it appear that the main characters life is a lot more interesting than the average teenagers, whilst also making it so that the average teenager can relate to it. Hours and hours of scenes are filmed and the most funny, interesting or entertaining scenes are chosen to make the programme as appealing to the target audience as possible.