Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Modern Christian Representation

The picture that I have shown below is of a group of modern christians and how they are represented and stereotyped.





Tuesday, 19 March 2013

How producers would define their audience through research

How producers would define their audience through research



With finding out how many listeners a certain radio station has compared to their rivals a producer would go on to the Rajar website. Rajar stands for Radio Joint Audience Research, it provides the figures for how many listeners each station has received from their broadcasting range every quarter of the year. So for the last quarter of 2012 Radio 1 had 11,091,000 listeners out of 52,352,000. If you were a producer of Radio 1 then you would be very happy with the listening figures that Radio 1 shows, but there is one other radio station that has more listeners than BBC Radio 1. That radio station is BBC Radio 2 which has 15,109,000.

As a producer of Radio 1 you would need to look through each programme throughout your schedule and find out which show was losing the listeners and then do something to change that. However they also look at what type of people listen to each of their shows. BBC Radio 1's target audience is between 15 and 29. If one show has too many listeners outside the target audience range and not enough people listening from the target audience ag group then the producers will do something to change this and try and get more of their target audience to listen in. A very good example of this is Chris Moyles. He was the presenter for BBC Radio 1 from 06:00 - 10:00. However even though he was incredibly popular most of his shows listeners were in their 30's or early 40's. Therefore because Chris had been presenting the breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 for 8 years and was older than other presenters that BBC Radio1 employ they decided that it was time for Chris to hand over the reigns to a younger presenter. The younger presenter would help attract more of the target audience to the show because he would play more popular tracks and try to make the show interesting  for the target audience. With Chris Moyles he will most likely move over to BBC Radio 2 as a lot of BBC Radio 1 presenter move over to radio 2.

A League Of Their Own Audience Feedback

A League Of Their Own Audience Feedback


To start off with tvguide.com gave the show a 7.4 rating and IMDb.com gave the show a 8.6 rating. The majority of websites say that they love the show because if you don't love sport then this show will help you like it more and the banter throughout the show is incredibly funny. As a female viewer of the show said "I love this programme and I'm a girl, and I don't do sport!!!" Other quotes from viewers include "Best sports panel show ever!" and "This programme is on the of the best highlights of the TV week". Some reviews say this is the first sport show that men can sit with their partners and both of them can enjoy the show.

A League Of Their Own has seen a lot of positive reviews since its first airing. However there have been some complaints by some viewers.

However with all the reviews there are negative reviews about the show and the panelists. "Good programme but Flintoff and Redknapp are dead weight. Watch them, then watch Phil Tuffnell on A Questions Of Sport and see how its done", "I'd rather watch Madonna's film with the same name than this".

One website does comment on saying that it is not as sport-centric as A Question Of Sport so you might feel that you can't use your expertise on sport as much in this programme.

A League Of Their Own Representation

A League Of Their Own (Representation).

Background:

With the background colours for each team and the presenter, we expect to see bright colours that stand out. Also the colours are expected to be similar colour coordinated so that the can match the rest of the scenery. This is shown by the teams having red for Redknapp's team and blue for Flintoff's team, and those two colours together make purple which is the background colour for James Corden the presenter.

The bright lighting helps to show the presenter, guests and captains. With the bright lighting the audience can see every part of the set because in different parts of the show there are physical challenges that each team needs to take part of.

The layout of the show has a smallish table in the centre for the main presenter with two large table on either side of him for the two different teams of three to be placed. Then far stage right is  curved wall, which in the final round is lifted up to show the sporting challenge.

When you tune in to watch A League Of Their Own you expect to see the same colours in the background, the same scenery and the same layout of the show. If anything is different it might be a technical error, or James Corden (presenter) will mention that the scenery has had a makeover.

Each show of A League Of Their Own you expect to see James Corden presenting the show, and you also expect to see Jamie Redknapp and Andrew Flintoff as captains, if for some reason one of the captains can't make one of the shows then a replacement sporting celebrity will be called in to be captain. Precious guest captains include: Gabby Logan, Lee Mack, Peter Crouch and Dermot O'Leary. Previously Georgie Thompson and John Bishop were the guest regulars for each team. But since both have now left the show Jack Whitehall is the only guest regular.

For some shows celebrities have been in the audience, including Mike Tindall and Louis Smith.

The format of the show is expected to be the same throughout each show. The first round is a matching up round in which the teams have to match up sporting celebrities with an item that is related to them. After that round a sporting challenge is set in honour of one of the sporting guests. Then to finish off the show there is a quick fire round in which the time the teams get to answer questions is determined by how long the teams can sustain a sporting challenge.

With A League Of Their Own sporting stars are represented as fit athletes, in great shape, and on then sports show they are always coaked into doing some sort of physical activity to do with their sport, as they are represented to be brilliant in that area of their field. They also make jokes about Harry Redknapp and getting injured all the time, this is due to the fact that Jamie had to retire from football early due to injuries and the fact that even after retiring from football he has still managed to get injured. Also with places being represented they have always made fun of John Bishop and his Scouse accent, because of this they pretend not to understand the scouse accent and make fun of it sometimes mimicking it.

Monday, 11 March 2013

Genres of quiz shows

Genre is a type of category for media production content. For quiz shows, there are many different genres, these can range from Comedy to TV, and from Sport to Music.

Their are many different types of quiz shows such as:

A League Of Their Own (Sport)
Mock The Week (Comedy)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks (Music)

Each quiz show tries to target a specific audience, for example A League Of Their Own would try and target sport fanatics, even though the creator of the quiz show was quoted saying "this is a comdey show for those who don't like sport".

Never Mind The Buzzcocks is produced for a niche market as it targets modern music lovers. Mock The Week however is produced for mass market as it targets anyone, because the show is a comedy designed show anyone who has a sense of humour is targeted for this show.

Each quiz show is distributed through different TV Channels. Quiz shows are normally created through a specific channel. The channels will see which type/genre of target audience they want to appeal to and they will start to plan the quiz show from their. For example comical quiz shows are usually replayed on Gold and Dave. BBC One and BBC 2 distribute a lot of different types of quiz shows, they have a quiz show for music (Never Mind The Buzzcocks), a sport quiz show (A Question Of Sport), and Comical Quiz show (Mock The Week) to name but a few of their genres. The BBC produce a lot of different genres of quiz shows as they want to attract as many viewers as possible, so that they beat the competition.

Different types of quiz shows require different types of lighting and technology. For example a sports show like A League Of Their Own requires videos for some questions, and the videos will need to be edited for the show, as they have questions which include a mixture of videos. The lighting for the show will need to be bright as the audience will want to see the different presenters and celebrities on the show.