: Doctor Who - Audience and Industry

 Audience and Industry: blog tasks


1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?

before it was target at young adults this is because it was the first sci fi show so it was interested in now it could of become a famile show

2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas.

Personal Identity: personally relating to something - seeing your lifestyle on screen. Think about how different audiences may identify with Susan, her teachers or the Doctor.

Personal Relationships: caring about characters and wanting to find out what happens to them. This is the first episode of four - which characters do you think the audience will want to follow on their journey? 

Diversion (Escapism): escapism and being entertained away from your normal life. Science Fiction is a classic genre for escapism - what examples of this could be found in the episode?

Surveillance (Information / Facts): learning information that you did not already know. Doctor Who offers its audience an education about space travel, science and history.  

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience?

Gratifications theory when analysing the audience pleasures offered by Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child. Remember, we must consider it from the perspective of a viewer in the 1960s who would have reacted in quite a different way to an audience in 2020

4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?

VISCERAL PLEASURE: Physical thrill of watching something there is a lot of suspense given through out the show 

VICARIOUS PLEASURE: Experiencing something through the teachers like the time travel in the TARDIS 

VOYEURISTIC PLEASURE: Watching something you wouldn't normally get a chance to see inside TARDIS


5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.

The ‘Whoniverse’ is made up of podcasts, spin-offs (other shows that derive from the main Doctor Who and have settings, ideas, characters in common e.g. K-9 which is a kid’s show about Doctor Who’s robot dog) and documentaries, behind-the-scenes, sneak peaks and so on.

Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?

only a few channels and in black and white 

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?

very few SFX due to lack of technology 

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 

it allowed bbc to generate revenue around the world and was one of the first sci fi tv shows 

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?

K9 - torchwood - Sarah jane 

5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 

cause doctor who has a MASSIVE fan base 

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