Textual Analysis Of Bad Education

Visual Codes
The visual codes in bad education are that the clothes for by the characters. For example the children were wearing school clothes so you can tell who are the pupils and who are the teachers, this means you can sort of guess the age of the characters. The effect of this is so you can tell what the characters are just by looking at them.

Technical Codes
The technical codes of the programme are high key lighting. The purpose of this is to set the mood. The effect of using high key lighting is so that it will make the audience more comfortable to watch it and therefore it will be funnier to watch. I also identified that they used the close up shot. The purpose of this is to show the emotion of the character. In the programme this is done when a character is crying and they use the close up shot to make the viewer feel sympathy for the character so it is  more effective than having a mid shot or any other short further out.

Audio Codes 
I found that the media producer used non-digetic sound when changing scenes. The purpose of this is to help give the emotion a character is feeling. This is done by when the character is showing emotion and it changes scene, music is the non-digetic sound and the type of music matches the emotion. An example of this is one of the teachers is happy and when it changes scene the music is bright and upbeat to match the emotion of the character.

Audience

Peace at Reading Festival 2013 Audience Task

The intended audience for this is for people who listen to indie rock music especially the band Peace and like to watch bands playing live music at festivals. The age that this is intended for is about 16-25. I say this age because this is about the age region that go to Reading/Leeds music festivals so this would be the intended audience this programme.
The uses and gratifications used for this programme would be entertainment because people would watch this to just 'get lost in the music'. They would also watch this for social integration because if they had friends that had the same music taste then they would want to talk about it to them. Also another use and gratification  of this programme is personal identity as they can identify themselves as the audience if they listen to Peace or similar sort of music.

 

Uses And Gratifications: Social Integration

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

 

 

 

Social integration is media where discussions, companionship and camaraderie take place. Alan Carr Chatty Man is a very good example of this sort of media as this television programme consists of him having guests on his show and having discussions with them.

Uses And Gratifications: Entertainment

Bad Education

 Entertainment in media purposes are so that people can escape from reality. Bad Education is a good example of this as people would watch this programme to escape from reality and to watch something to laugh at and take their mind off things. Bad Education is a comedy and not very realistic so it helps people escape from reality because of the non-realistic situations. 

Uses And Gratifications: Information

Match Of The Day

 

 

Information is where people watch or look at media to find out things that has happened in the country or in the world. Match Of The Day is an example of a media that is used to give people information on what happened in every Saturday's Barclays Premier League games, so people will  watch this programme to find out the scores and watch the goals of the Premiership games that happen that day.

Uses And Gratification: Personal Identity

Goals On Sunday

Personal identity is when the active audience idetinfy themselves as part of an audience. Goals on Sunday is an example of Personal Identity because if you are interested in football then this programme would be of an interested to you as it is all about football. The intended audience for this programme is football fans from the age of about 13+. I don't think there is a target audience to be too old as it is a football/chat show. The programme is constructed as the hosts talk to the guests of the show and every now and again football highlights are shown.

How Age Is Represented In Adulthood

Age is represented in the film adulthood negatively is it stereotypes

teenagers to be violent and in gangs. The media producers view on this

are that teenagers in London that are brought up in a bad area will end

up in a gang and be violent and cause trouble.