His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries

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 His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries 

Audience

1) What audience do you think His Dark Materials is aimed at and why? Think about demographic and psychographic groups. You can revise Pyschographics here.

  Teenagers, Aimed at a contemporary family audience for the BBC Sunday night broadcast slot

2) What audience pleasures are offered by His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies? 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: They may have been in some the form of performance in Hamilton

Personal Relationships: Will and Lyra 

Diversion (Escapism): The different and fantasy world allows the viewers to escape to this 


3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to His Dark Materials? Refer to specific scenes or moments in the episode to explain your answer. 

Vicarious- The new world we see 


4) How did fans react to Season 2 of His Dark Materials? What about critic reviews? You can find some possible answers for this in this BBC website article on the critical reception for His Dark Materials and watch the fan reaction video above. 

Fans who watched season 2 predominantly said it was good however it was quite slow. 

5) What might be some of the preferred and oppositional readings for His Dark Materials? Why did some fans love it? Why have other people criticised it? 

Oppositional- It was too confusing and it was anti religious 

Preferred- It was sci fi and really exciting 

Industries

1) Which companies produced this His Dark Materials series? BBC

2) What were the UK viewing figures for A City of Magpies? How did this compare to season 1 of His Dark Materials? Lower than the first season 

3) What was American network HBO's role in making His Dark Materials and why is this important? Look at the notes above for more on this. They gave a lot of money and contributed towards it becoming big budget. 

4) What famous stars are in His Dark Materials and why do you think they were selected for the show? Watch the Comic Con panel video in the notes above to see the stars talking about the show. 

Ruth Wilson

5) Who are Bad Wolf and what do they produce?

UK company who create fantasy shows 

Comparison: Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child and His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies

1) How are the technical conventions different between 1963 Doctor Who and 2020 His Dark Materials (e.g. camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene)? Doctor who is black and white and quite slow. Whereas HDM is cinematic with fast pace editing 

2) What similarities and differences are there between Doctor Who and His Dark Materials in terms of genre and narrative? Both are sci fi, Doctor Who time travels where as HDM shows another dimension with talking animals. 

3) How are representations of people, places and groups similar or different in the two shows? Its more diverse. Girls are represented more stronger in HDM where as In doctor who Barbara is seen much more scared and frightened 

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