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His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries blog tasks

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1) Read this audience rating guide for His Dark Materials. Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups? You can revise Pyschographics here.

The target audience for his dark materials would be younger people as the age rating for His Dark Materials is 14+ on HBO and 10+ in France and 16+ in Brazil

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: Gender , age , race 

Personal Relationships: Friendship

Diversion (Escapism): Fantasy

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. 

People will make a shocked reaction as ms Coulter tortures the Witch and the audience will want to know what happens next

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 where very shocked and excited for the season 2 but critics thought that there isnt enough magic in the fantasy series and that the daemons wherent replicated as shown in the books.

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? 

People may have thought that it was inacurate to the books and there wasnt enough fantasy written into the script but fans might have loved it as the effects where very interesting to them

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1) Which companies produced this His Dark Materials series?

Bad Wolf and New line productions

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

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.

HBO got international distribution on what was a BBC one production 

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.

the show features both British and American star names such as Brits Ruth Wilson and James McAvoy and American Lin-Manuel Miranda and got selected to hit a larger audience

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

a Television production company founded by Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter in 2015 and are responsible for television series

✮⋆｡°✩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)?

His Dark materials had better technical conventions unlike Doctor who - an unearthly child that now has very out dated technology which can be seen in camera quality and the editing skills

2) What similarities and differences are there between Doctor Who and His Dark Materials in terms of genre and narrative?

Differences : doctor who= sci-fi , aliens

              his dark materials= fantasy , witches

Similarities: Companions , Different worlds 

3) How are representations of people, places and groups similar or different in the two shows?