How you intend to use Media Language
to target your intended audience
How you intend to use Media
Representations that are appropriate to your intended audience
I intend to use Having a solid
knowledge of the target audience plays a crucial play in making sure whatever a
company does with social media is effective and focused. ... This makes the
importance of identifying target audiences that much more necessary and
important. A target audience is the intended audience or readership of a
publication, advertisement, or other message. In marketing and advertising, it
is a particular group of consumers within the predetermined target market,
identified as the targets or recipients for a particular advertisement or
message.
The cultural theorist, Stuart Hall,
explored how people make sense of media texts and claimed audiences were active
not passive.
An active audience engages,
interprets and responds to a media text in different ways and is capable of
challenging the ideas encoded in it.
A passive audience is more likely to
accept the messages encoded in a media text without challenge and are therefore
more likely to be directly affected by the messages.