about me

My name is Mae Burton i am 16 years of age, i have blonde hair and brown eyes.

I decided to do media as i wanted to find out more about films and series, but more in depth and media studies allows me to do this.
i have only recently started sixth form (3 weeks into it) as i went to college first, but decided i didnt like it. At college i was studying photography, this included the history of photography, learning and working on computers with different photography programs, art lessons, video production and different styles of cameras with photography. It was interesting in some parts but just not what i wanted to do and i wasnt interested enough in it to carry it on for two years.

so now i have come back to lutterworth to study media studies, leisure studies, sociology, starter spannish and retake maths. i am looking forward to these next two years as it gives me a chance to study things that i actually want to learn about, and hopefully i will get a good grade out of it.

1. Do you think the audiences for most media texts do come “from all walks of life” or do 

different kinds of people watch very different kinds of programme? Are there any examples of media texts that you can think of that do seem to have audiences of all kinds of people?

A) lots of films/series are watch by most of the puplic as they apeal to everyone in some way. different kinds of scocial groups watch different kinds of films as its the sort of thing that they are into. If people are more into dark kind of things like say gothic people then they would more want to experience a thrill movie rather then a rom-com. but programs like x-factor apeal to most people as it interes the whole publice in different way, some peoplewatch it for entertainment, some for information to look at how they can maybe getinto that kind of business, and some just do it for identification in themselves and compare themselves to others.

2. How much of your media experience occurs when you are on your own and how much 

when you are with others? 

if you are on your own then you are more likely to watch things at home, whereas if you were with a big group of people then you would more likely go out to the cinimas or experienceit in a different way.

3. How do you experience/consume media (i.e. watch or listen to it)?

i experience media by either going out with friends/family to watch new films or whatch them at home. i mostly watch films and series at home asi can do it in my own time and it wont cost me anything.

4. Are there any ways in which you share your experiences of the media with other people 

who weren’t around when you experienced the text? List as many ways as you share 

experiences (e.g. msn etc)

i share my experiences over facebook, text, calls, and generally talking with people in and out of school.

Audience theory

Exam speak
- The issues raised in the targeting of national and local audiences (specifically British) by international institution.
- The ways in which the canidates own experiences of media comsumption illustrate wider patterns and trends of audience behaviour.

Blumer- 4 ways
first- different kinds of peole, vocation, wealth, and cultrrual.
second- anonymous individuals, people of the mass audience so not know eachother.
third- little interaction of people, the oppertunity to mill, as do other people in the audience.
forth- coinsidence that we do things. People will communtcate to organise things.

Uses in gratifications
Watch things for entertainment, information, or identification.
hierachy of needs

The main areas that are identified in this models
a) need for information about geographical and social worldnews and drama
b) need for identity - using characters and personalities to define sonse on self/social behaviour
c) need for social interaction through experienceing realationshipsand interaction
d) ne3ed for diversion- use media for purpose of play and entertainment.