Game of Thrones - Audience Notes
- Created by: Amylee
- Created on: 07-06-14 14:46
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- Game of Thrones - Audience
- Availability
- only available exclusively to sky1/HBO subscribers
- most pirated TV show ever
- streaming, torrents etc.
- most pirated TV show ever
- Box sets
- fits with new TV watching habits
- 'Binge' TV, can catch up straight away
- Led to a 4 million viewer increase through Series 4
- only available exclusively to sky1/HBO subscribers
- Target Audience
- 18-39
- language
- nudity
- sex
- violence
- men expected
- due to violence, themes and
- 18-39
- Innovative marketing
- 15 minute trailer
- active youtube/ twitter/ facebook presence.
- Playing at the same time across the whole world
- Reduces piracy
- Everyone involved
- Exhibitions, promotional events
- Why do people watch it?
- Cult TV
- magnetic characters, dedicated fans, challenge genre conventions
- Originally ASOIAF book series by GRRM
- Wide variety of characters
- more likely to appeal to larger audience
- well known actors eg. sean bean, charles dance
- Sean Bean has fan following from LOTR
- Sigur Ros made a cameo and also produced song 'Rains of Castamere' for the show
- clever advertising
- interactive billboard
- dragon skull on beach
- 15 minute trailer for s4
- dragon shadow on newspapers
- Cult TV
- Blulmer and Katz 'Uses and Gratifications'
- Escapism
- Escape from everyday problems and routine
- fantasy world
- Personal Identity
- audience can feel empathy for some characters and storylines eg. ned's death
- social interaction
- Controversial show can spark conversation
- Escapism
- Stuart Hall Encoding/ Decoding
- Negotiated/ oppositional
- women may dislike the imbalance of female/male nudity
- Some women will be opposed to the show featuring frequent sexual violence scenes towards female characters.
- eg. Daenerys' **** in 'Winter is coming'
- preferred
- Fans of the book are more likely to have a preferred reading
- negotiated
- people who object to graphic violence and nudity but can appreciate the storylines and characters
- Negotiated/ oppositional
- Availability
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