Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Audience types

Mainstream - This is a large audience that watch or listen to one thing. It is calculated by ratings or box office.

Main genres would be POP, ROCK, HIP-HOP and RnB with videos by artists such as :

Beyonce 29th Birthday



Videos






Cult - A small but loyal following audience of a particular media text. Genres such as GRIME, GARAGE etc

Artists include:


Videos:


The other Audience types are:

Subversive - This is an audience that watch controversial media texts that could offend.

Alternative - Opposite of mainstream. Audience enjoy media texts that are similar to similar to mainstream media texts, but differ in various ways.

Below is an image of my target audience


My target audience is will be mainly teenage girls as we are are a teenage girl band. I would hope for us to be a mainstream band, but it is likely we will be cult or Alternative as the mainstream audiences usually consist of RnB these days.

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