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Explore the different ways your three main texts target their audiences. (30 Marks) This essay will explore the different ways in which my three main texts target and attract an audience. The three main texts I will be focusing on are: Coronation Street, I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here and Sky Sports Coverage of football (SNF - Saturday Night Football). My three main texts targets their audiences in many different ways. One way in which audiences are targeted is through the style, tone, content, language and mode of address: - Coronation Street: Style/Tone/Language: Informal and formal. Chatty style, set and based in the city of Manchester, use formal language with some aspects of slang. Content: The programme Coronation street offers "comfortable reassurance", giving the audience what they would usually expect from a soap/episode (what is typical of the genre), whilst overtime also creating new story lines and characters but also follows the same style of l...

For my media investigation and production task I focused my work on the representations of heroes and villains within the crime and action genre. From this I expanded on the types of heroes and villains, their characteristics and common stereotypes through research into existing texts. In my research I focused on films such as: · Big Hero 6 · Superman (1978) · Wreck It Ralph · Despicable Me · 10 Cloverfield Lane · No Country For Old Men With this I also researched into the TV programme Game of Thrones along with Shakespeare's plays of Romeo and Juliet and Othello. For the practical piece, I produced a TV extract based around the representations of heroes, villain and eastern Europeans, working alongside my classmate Stefan Okopskyj. We decided to create a TV extract that focused on a drug deal between the Russian mafia and British agents as we found this was a good way to show the hero and villain stereotypes. For pre-planning I watched various film...