His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries blog tasks


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.

Aimed for family audiences.



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: Teenagers, Oxford.

Personal Relationships: Will + Lyra

Diversion (Escapism): Dramatic, exciting.


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. 

Viceral pleasure - because of chase scenes.



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.

They reacted quite positively to season 2.





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? 

The preferred reading about this is that the and they want the audience to believe that this program is like adults vs teenagers.

Oppositional reading is the audience may not find this show interesting because they might not understand the narrative of it.




Industries

1) Which companies produced this His Dark Materials series?

HBO, Badwolf, BBC



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

4.4 million on BBC, 227,000 on HBO.




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.

Making the show high quality programmes.



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.

Characters are mostly teenagers. They were selected for this show because they can show what teenagers can do against adults.



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

Bad Wolf is an outstanding TV drama production company based in Wales. They create ambitious, imaginative dramas.



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)?

These are different because in 1963, Doctor Who episodes are in black and white which means that this was created a long time ago. We see in His Dark Materials the actual colour and sound is more updated. The camerawork in 2020 we can see the scene clearly. On the other hand, 1963, there were quite lot's of fuzzy bits there and then.





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

They both share a genre blending fantasy and adventure elements of science fiction, but their narrative diverge is in tone and focus.




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


It reflects the cultural and societal norms of their respective times.








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