TV Ownership

Humans 

How have ownership and economic factors shaped the TV programs you have studied?

British-ness

• using King Cross station, the supermarket
• southern middle-class accent, Lexus
• the style (the look) "TV ugly" 
• washed out colours
• British stereotypes
• similar to British sitcoms,  

Pan-Atlantic programming - commissioned by both C4 (UK) and aMC (US). Has lead to the inclusion of American characters like George. 

- No swearing

- Limited nudity

Independent ideology - themes of rebellion, culture and identity

Relatively high production value

British themes, representations, actors, locations, stereotypes, ideologies and 'style'

Targeting and maintaining audiences

The target audience for Humans

• Age - 18-30
• Gender - both
• Nationality - English/American
• Location - England? idk it's a redundant question 
• Sexuality - who cares? gay people don't only watch things with gay people in it
• Demographic - um this is also redundant 
• Psychographic - idk what this means
• Socio-economic - middle class
• Occupation - well they probably have to be mildly intelligent 
• Hobbies - idk 

TV producers are selling audiences not TV shows,

In what ways does this scene target and maintain audiences? - Breakfast scene

• Camera work - framing and composition shot types, angle, position, movement - 
• Lighting and colour -
• Editing – pace, type of edits, continuity
• Narrative construction, related to the narrative theory
• Sound – dialogue, music
• Mise-en-scene – setting and location, props, costume/dress, hair/make-up - the family look like a classic middle-class family 
• Polysemic

Humans shows a classic representation of women with a subversive message about them. This binary opposition of meanings is to show that the way that the male gaze theory is damaging to our modern culture. We replace sex workers with robots to calm men's own ego's of what crosses the line between consensual sex and rape. Men don't need to disrespect women anymore when they have a bunch of cables and wires to replace the complexities of the gender and just appreciate them for their bodies as toys for them to pick and choose when and what they do. Niska, is consistently abused and