'Doctor Who: Audience and Industry blog tasks'

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 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963?Children were the main target audience for Doctor Who.

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. Doctor Who offers its audience a sense of escapism and entertainment away from your normal life.

Personal Identity: personally relating to something - seeing your lifestyle on screen.

Personal Relationships: takes the relationship between media texts and audiences a step further.

Diversion (Escapism): Escapism and being entertained away from your life.

Surveillance (Information / Facts): Learning info that you did not already know.
3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020 audience?  An additional i would add would be relationship because when watching a show like Doctor Who that has been around for a long time the audience may create a connection with the characters because we they care about what happens to long-standing characters like Doctor Who.
4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child? I would apply visceral pleasure as since Doctor who is a sci-fi  series and unrealistic big explosions and unexpected scenes occur.
5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Doctor Who has a large fan base who are called Whovians.

Industries
1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there? The TV industry was up coming and had just settled in there was only 3 channels and usually one set per household.
2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963? From the Unearthly child quality is grainy and unclear so it tells us that technology was not fully developed.
3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?
5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 




















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