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- 1. A report to show how a media industry identifies audiences for their products. Introduction It is important that the media industry identifies the audiences for their products to make sure that they are suitable for the audience. In this report I am going to show how the media industry identifies audiences for their products. 1. Bbc, Easterners, 19:28 with 7.162 thousand people watching this programme this applies to all the group. This age group for easterners would be for all the ages because there are all different ages of people in the programme, this can relate to the all the audience. 2. G.O.L.D, only fools and horse, Monday 11:54 158 watching this programme, this applies to the group E ,D and C2. This age group for only fools and horse would be for the ages of 15 and over because there is a little bit of swearing so it would inappropriate for little children watching it. 3. Cartoon network, Mr Bean , Saturday 09:30 with 52 people, this applies to group E. This age group for Mr Bean would be for the ages 9 to 50 as this programme is funny and would entertain families, young adults and older adults. 4. Channel 4, Come dine with me, Wednesday 17:00 with 1533 people , this applies to group E,D,C2,C1. This age group for Come Dine with me 20 and over because people would want to watch something on TV as they come from a work.
- 2. 5. Food network, ace of cakes , Saturday 19:00, this applies to the group A, B, C1. The age group for ace of cakes would be for 20 and over. Woman’s Heat OK Closer More Elle UK Men’s Topgear Fishing Mens heath Football (4-4-2) Zoo xbox Both Kananga Hmtv
- 3. Food magazine Simpsons A focus group is where a people discus ideas what can be improved or like to add to a programme or a concert what make people have they say or have your own option about the relevant discussion. Advantages of an focus group is that you can put your own voice across for your ideas and what you think that could be improve the product what you’re talking about. Also, in focus groups the moderator can make sure that everything is on track and doesn’t lose focus what the end output and it make sure researches look up and see if that people are copy the company ideas or not . The disadvantages of being in focus group is that you might not get the chance to get voice to be heard because of people might over power their ideas over yours. Also, some people find talking about sensitive topic so this would affect the output data. Plus, people might disagree with your opinion so that would create conflict and might put you off addressing your ideas across. Dora the explorer would be for children of the ages of 4 to 8 years old and both gender, mostly girls than boys. This is because of the programme helping children with their education and girls would
- 4. watch it because of the girls might like the character in the programme. The Imbertweeners would be for teenagers and adult of the ages of 13 to 60 year olds; this is because that there is some adult humour so it would inappropriate for the younger generation to watch is programme. It also is appropriate because the older audience because they could relate their own experiences when they were that age. The Granada report would be for people who live in Manchester because someone from Birmingham wouldn’t want to know what has been happing in Manchester area. It is just for people who relate to the postcode and where you live.
- 5. For the Gay times magazine it is aimed for men who are interested with the same sex as it tell the gay community information how to cope and advise for gay men. The yachting magazine would aim for people who can afford, have a boat licence a yacht. Also people who enjoy sailing around the coastal area .
- 6. Questionnaires is a where you fill out a form what has question what at the end they would collect all the information and us it to creating statistics out of the data. The advantages of a questionnaire are that you can create a large mass of questionnaires in a sort space of time and you don’t have to travel to the work placement for an interview. The disadvantage of a questionnaire are that the data what you revive back might not be reliable because people didn’t understand the question or people would be lying on the questionnaire, also, it is very time consuming to create the statistics with a large mass of data coming in to the company . Conclusion To conclude I have researched the media industry and how it identifies the audiences for their products. I have found out that there are a variety of different groups for classifying audiences. These include age, gender, sexual orientation, social class and geographic location.