Audience in magazines.



Main audience questions.

How does the audience respond to the product?
How does the producer target/position the audience?

Explore the different ways the Adbusters and Women target their audiences through content and appeal?


  • Uses and gratifications theory.
- What ways are the audience getting pleasure from media products.


How can people use and take pleasure from television?

  • Escape reality.
  • Excitement.
  • Educational.
  • Plays out peoples fantasy's.
  • Reflects societal issues.
  • Social interaction.
  • Fandom.
  • Relatable.
  • Voyeurism.
  • Sexual gratification.
Women.

  • TA women aged 25-50.
  • Heterosexual women.
  • Working class.
  • Aspirational.
  • Confidence.
  • Make women happy now they know how to please their man.
  • Motivation.
  • The ellipses is calming.
  • The ellipses anchors the mise en scene of the soap.
  • Escapism. 
  • Provoke discussions.
  • "Because your a women"- relatable as the TA are Women.


Reception theory.

  • How the audience perceive a media product.

Preferred 
Negotiated         = Nothing to do with the audience liking it. 
Oppositional



   

  • Africans are poor.
  • We feel sorry for Africa and feel bad for spending a lot of money on expensive shoes.
  • Oppositional reading is that you don't feel bad as people work for their money and can buy what they want.
  • Negotiated reading is that we feel guilty for The poor people in Africa but not fully as a lot of countries in Africa aren't poor.    











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