Gogglebox

Audience:

Gogglebox targets families from teenagers up. This is because it is post water shed and can often include swearing and sensitive topics. The diversity of the families in the programme mean they can target a wider audience to relate to.

Representation:

This show is relatable to the majority of Channel 4's regular audience. Its showing the audience themselves, everyday families sitting in their front rooms thinking the same opinions that most of us think. It represents everyone from upper class to working class, those of different ethnicity, sexuality, gender and relationships from family to friendship. This is seen through the surroundings of the homes that the show is filmed in.

Message:

Channel 4 uses this show as a mouthpiece for everyone's shared opinions and reactions to everyday TV. They use realistic normal people to convey their opinions on shows which Gogglebox's audience either agree or disagree with, both of which make the audience want to watch on. From the programme it is clear that there are shared opinions amongst all the families on the show and that age, race and class is irrelevant when it comes to opinions. 

Production Value:

It is suggested that the families are in their own front rooms with just a camera in front of them, and in the first series this may have been the case. However now the show uses different shot sizes and close ups to show reactions and therefore get more from their audience and for their audience. This limits the idea that a single camera is used and also the idea that the families forget that they're being filmed. The show could be seen as a reality show as some believe that is constructed as the filming is edited and the families may be acting up to the camera like when they are nicely dressed with tidy homes, because they are aware they are now on a popular TV show.

Production

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Todorov

Tzevetan Todorov believed that all narratives have four stages.

1. Equilibrium 
2. Disruption of the Equilibrium 
3. Recognition of Disruption
4. Attempt to repair the Disruption
5. Reinstatement of the Equilibrium

Todorov's theory applied to The Hangover:

Equilibrium:

One of the main characters is getting married and go to Las Vegas with 2 friends and his brother inlaw for his stag do.

They arrive in Las Vegas two days before the wedding and stay at Caeser's Palace, celebrating with drinks at the casino.

Disruption:

The two friends and brother in law (Phil, Stu and Allen) wake up with no memory of the night before and the groom missing.  They find a tiger in their suite, a baby in their closet and their Mercedes replaced with s police car.

Recognition:

The three friends go to hospital and learn they have been drugged. They get told they came to hospital from a Chapel and so begin to retrace their steps to find out what happened the previous night.

Attempt:

After retracing their steps they meet with who they think is Doug's captor and pay him the ransom money. Only to realise that they are talking on cross purposed before the memory that they left Doug on the hotel roof as a practical joke,is triggered.

Reinstatement:

Harmony is restored as Doug is found and although later than planned makes it to his wedding in time to be married.