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Demographics and Psychographics

1) How do media companies classify (groups) potential audiences for their products? (think about demographics )   They classify them by age, gender , ethnicity, race, social class and job. 2) What are the names of the seven different psychographic groups that Young and Rubicam use to profile audiences ? The seven  different psychographic groups is: The Aspirer The Reformer The Explorer The Mainstream The Struggler The Succeder The Sesgined 3) What psychographic group or groups do YOU belong in? Think about your own interests and lifestyle and explain your decision. Remember, you may fit into two or three different groups!  I think I belong in both the Mainstream and the Reformer. Whilst I exist in the majority where they consume mainstream products, I also often find niche things within the mainstream to fit my taste. 4) Who are the target demographics for this Heat magazine front cover and why? (CAGE) I think the target demographics for this front cover of a ...

Blog feedback and Learner Response

WWW : A fantastic start to GCSE Media Studies – you are completely up-to-date on your blog tasks and you have shown originality and flair in your responses. I really think the Van Gogh style is visually appealing. You are very specific with your feature analysis for each task; your advert analysis for Denotation and Connotation is well chosen. EBI : The main thing to work on is the depth and detail of your written work on the blog using more media terminology – for example such as the Mise-en-scene and camerawork blog tasks. It is fantastic that you are ahead compared to the others in the class, but that extra bit of detail will give you that edge and potentially higher grade. Reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? I think my strongest piece of work so far is the Stranger Things analysis where we used Mise-en-scene to analys...