Key Terms Flashcards
Audience?
People watching the TV game show.
Home or the Tv studio.
Categories?
Subgenres of TV game shows may have their own specific category.
Trivia, sport, music
What is a game show?
A television programme in which people compete to win prizes.
What makes a successful game show?
Name 6 things.
Hosts. Theme tune. Contestants. Prize. Live audience. Catchphrase. Usp.
What does a tv advert have to include?
Name 9 things.
Setting. Contestants. Hosts. Set. Action shots. Unique selling point. Audience. Title. Prize.
Define target audience
A particular group at which a product such as a tv show is aimed at.
Define demographics.
Study of the population.
What does demographics look at?
CAGE. Gender. Ethnicity. Age. Education. Level of income. Employment.
What do demographics use the information they get for?
Determine who a target audience may be.
Define psychographic profiling
System of profiling the audience, by their motivations.
What are the 4 C’s of psychographic profiling?
Cross Cultural Consumer Characteristics.
Cross Cultural Consumer Characteristics form ideas of what?
That they are 7 types of consumers which can be targeted, through imagery and text.
A target audience will be attracted to a certain type of…
Product or brand based on the profile.
Name the 7 profile types
Main-streamers. Aspires. Succeeders. Resigned. Explores. Strugglers. Reformers.
What is ABC1?
System used for categorising demographical infomation used for audience targeting and market research by advertising sectors.
Name the 6 social grades?
A. B. C1. C2. D. E.
Define the term presenter.
Person who introduces and appears in TV or radio programmes.
Name the 4 institutions
BBC.
ITV.
C4.
Scheduling.
Areas that are represented are usually…
People.
Objects,
Places.
Why is there more men hosts?
Men considered more knowledgeable.
More men comedians.
UK TV game show hosts are usually…
White British.
BBC attract…
Higher class audiences. Reflected in choice of hosts.
The set in a particular game show has it’s own…
Format and style.
Does not change.
The set is a closed…
Representation and has no connection with the real world.
What is ideology?
Refers to shared values, attitudes and beliefs in our society.
What did Richard Dyer’s explore?
He explored that entertainment provides a solution and a vision of an ideal world.
How does the Richard Dyer’s Utopian Solution Theory apply to TV game shows?
Gives opportunity to reach utopia, by winning prizes and money which would otherwise be out of their reach.
What is Levi Strauss’ Narrative theory?
We understand the world through a system of power-weighted oppositions.
eg contestants vs hosts.
What does mise en scene include?
Name 5 things.
Setting. Props. Costumes. Body language. Lighting
Define representation.
Study of how people, places and objects are presented to us by producers of the media.
What is Richard Dyers’s star theory?
Explains how institutions for a specific objective.
Making money, construct celebrities.
Define synopsis
Brief overview of the format of a TV game show.
What is Blumler and Kat’s theory?
We consume a media text for specific reasons.
Entertainment, information.
What are codes and conventions?
We recognise a particular genre of film or TV programme by its use of a specific format.
Name 6 examples of codes and conventions?
Colour. Font. Sound. Music. Camera shots. Editing techniques.
What is cross-platform?
Media text being distributed in different mediums over different platforms .
Name 6 examples of cross-platform?
Internet. Mobile app. Computer. Television. Dvd. Board game.
what is the enigma code?
anything that remains a mystery to audience.
What does consumerist society mean?
people who long/want things they need.
greedy, selfie, materialistic
what does institution mean?
an organisation - such as broadcaster.
most famous BBC game shows:
Eggheads. Pointless. University challenge. A question of sport. The weakest link.
what year did the first game show air on the bbc?
1970.
most popular/well known game show hosts:
Anne Robinson - the weakest link.
Alexander robinson/richard osma - Pointlss.
Paddy Mcguiness - Take me out.
Noel Edmunds - deal or no deal.
