A. AUDIENCE: Who would this program appeal to? In your answer include gender, socio-economic status, psychographics and demographics.
it would appeal to BBC 3 primary audience who are young teenagers around the age of 16-34 year old. However, it could also appeal to secondary age group. because it also appeals to a younge teenagers the socio-economic class status is D and E as most teenagers generally fall into the category and much older teenagers could fall into B, C1, C2 as they are more technology literate and also they earn to provide themselves with enough money to have techology products. It appeals to males and females as the programmes on BBC3 are targetted at males and females which will appeal them to watch documentaries.
The pychographics are inform and educate because content in documentaries' main aim is to inform and educate.
B. INSTITUTION: What assumptions can you make about this program just from knowing that it will be broadcast on BBC Three?
We can predict that it will appeal to young/old teenage adults because BBC3's target audience is around 16-34 year old. As it is stated that BBC3 launches programmes that attempt to challenging common beliefs similarly this programme will also challenge the 'common belief' about the use of techonology that it is frequently used nowdays and how some people are scared of technology in the world where technology seems to be a way for survival.
C. MEDIA FORMS: What kind of program are you expecting to see when it is broadcast? Include specific ideas about content, along with more broad knowledge of the codes and conventions of this genre.
One of the form will be Obverservational mode. obverservational mode is observing undercover and camera observes what happens as it happens in a natural setting. This will allow the actors to act natural.
Expository mode: the documentary aims to inform and educate and there is a voiceover taking through the events. This documentary will inform the audiences how difficult the technophobes' life are when technology has become an extremely important part of our lives in today's world.
D. REPRESENTATION: What kind of position or opinion about these “technophobes” would you expect this documentary to project? Explain why.
This documentary will present "technophobes" in a negative light because according to today's world, in the 21st century, the techology has drastically developed since the past and it has sort of become a survival for the youth. Therefore, audience will tend to mock the characters in the documentary as they will presume how can someone be scared to technology when it has been a big part in 21st century.
f. Write a web blog review of the program (as if you have seen the first episode) commenting on one of the subjects/people in it. What kind of tone would your review take?
How can you be scared of TECHNOLOGY? C'mon it has become a huge part of our lives. I use technology every millesecond. I still don't understand how can people be scared of technology. The new show on BBC3 "technophobes" observe couple of teenagers scared of techonolgy. Are you kidding me? It is completely out of my sense but it is quite interesting to explore how can people be scared of technology.
The first episode was observing a boy screaming every time he sees any technology. Seriously? and there was literally no traces of any forms of technology in his house like nothing! His house must have been totally boring. Imagine how would he would be doing his homework? however, this documentary is quite interesting in exploring how this technophobia causes psychological stress and how it affects the brain. It has a lot of aspects that are entertaining because we tend to mock the characters whenever they try run away from technology or when the girl locks herself in the room when her parents buy a new computer.
overall, it is interesting to watch how people can be scared of technology especially young teenagers like me and in the 21st century.
