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  Audience 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 are: young people and families. 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: This is how you relate to the character. For example I particularly like Will as he is kind, caring and supportive. Personal Relationships: This is how you relate to the different relationships. For example I like the friendship between Lyra and Will, they help each other and care for each other. Diversion (Escapism): This is how entertained you are. For example felt entertained when Lyra goes through the portal. 3) Thinking of

1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class and we'll also post a Google document of class notes too (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: Susan went inside the police box the teacher are worried what happened to her her grandfather don't let stranger in the police box they went to a sand place another place a person sand  Mise-en-scene: 1960 set in high school, see rocket taking off. Then set in the room. He sees a mysterious person. Goes inside the spaceship. Doctor who is a person. Narrative and genre: He was good at school. She was in the police box. The doctor was in the time box. Levi states something about the kidnapping.Then they returned to another place. 2) How can we apply narratives to this episode of  Doctor Who?  Todorov's Equilibrium: Doctor Who shows that you can time travel to the place where the problem was to change it. Todorov's Equilibrium