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  Industries 1)  What was the objective of BBC3 when it was launched? You can find the answer in the notes above. To entertain young adults and get whovians excited. 2) Why did BBC3 go online-only in February 2016?   BBC3 went only online because the budget was cut of by £100million and was then made going online. 3) How does  Class  meet the BBC's mission statement to 'inform, educate and entertain'? Class meets BBC's mission statement by entertaining the audience by having a science-fiction and horror. 4) How did the distribution of  Class  contribute to the failure of the show with audiences? Because the time slots were messed up for the show and the audience was confused overall on the shows release which shows that the distribution wasn't done properly  5) What advertising and marketing was used to try and promote  Class  to an audience? Why do you think this wasn't very successful? By realising many teasers and having Doctor Who s...

  Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? The target audience for Doctor Who was more male than female because they were mainly interested in the science genre which has changed since 1963 as more females enjoy science-fiction rather than males and the age was 12-65 and for mainly for a family audience is still the same as 1963. Plus the ethnicity/race being white British people whilst it changing as people of different ethnicities and races watching Doctor Who and the social class being working and middle class still being the same.  2) What  audience psychographic groups  might particularly enjoy Doctor Who? Mainstreamers - broad appeal as millions of people watch BBC and BBC was one of the only channels that could be used for entertainment. Reformers - want the world to change, like new things and strange stuff. Explorers - like genres like science-fiction and mystery and stuff related to technology. 3) What audience pleas...

  Social and Historical context 1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s? An Unearthly Child reflect the social contexts of the 1960s by having no  representation of race in Doctor Who: An Earthly Child because all the characters are white. This is not surprising because racism was very common and normalised during the 1960s so it would be seen as odd if there wasn't a white person. By also having c ommon stereotypes of old people that are reinforced from 1963 and Doctor Who are old people being shown as grumpy, cruel and not people you can along with which is shown in Doctor Who by making the Doctor be arrogant and rude and ignoring the characters. Whilst common stereotypes of young people  that are reinforced from 1963 and Doctor Who are young people being shown as rebelling and immature which is shown by Doctor Who by making the Doctor call Susan "childish" after she argues with the Doctor. Finally by having gender stereot...

1) Type up your  WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Wow! This is a seriously impressive assessment with strong answers for some tough questions. EBI: Revise/practise your unseen text analysis skills as this is one question your are still working at the lower levels with. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question: Q1: 2 marks Q2: 6 marks Q3: 6 marks Q4: 2 marks Q5: 9 marks 3) Did you get any  media terminology  wrong in the assessment? If yes, make a note of the right answer here for future revision: not applicable  4) Look specifically at  question 2  - the unseen media analysis. Pick out  three  points from the mark scheme that you didn't include in your analysis of the Grazia magazine cover.  Consistent appropriate and effective use of subject specific terminology  throug...