Lesson 1
Grading Criteria
- Understand how media producers define audience for their products.
- Understand how media producers create products for specific audiences.
- Understand how media audiences respond to media products.
- Be able to develop responses to media products.
Key words:
- Mainstream - appeal to a wide audience and generally make large products. Usually big budget productions.
- Niche - aimed at satisfying specific general needs. Aimed at a narrowly defined market segment. Generally lower budget.
- Alternative - doesn't try to maximize profits. Seeks broad and non-elite audience.
Segmenting Audiences
(How media producers define their audiences)
- Demographics - Gender, age and social class. How people are grouped together.
- Psychographics - Study of personalty, values, attitudes, interests and lifestyles.
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