Doctor Who

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Narrative : Two Teachers are worried about a student by the name of Susan , she performs well in class however her grades slipped and when they find out about her address they find a junk yard . The teachers follow up through this and decide to investigate and take matters to their own hands .

Characters : Ian Charleston(teacher) , Barbara Wright(teacher) , Susan(student)

Iconography : The tardis , The junkyard , The Tardis controls links to the sci-fi theme.

Setting : At the begging its a school , then the junkyard , then the Tardis .

2. Equilibrium happens when Teacher is in his classroom however equilibrium is disturbed when Barbara Wright comes in and decides to have a conversation about Susan ( a student she is worried about in class).They decide to investigate Susan's house address however they fail and find a junkyard instead . They find a police box afterwards and after a while they meet the Doctor which is Susan's grandfather . They come to the discovery that Susan is trapped in a police box but realise that it is a dimensional space machine which travels around space . Doctor cannot risk for them to find out their secret so he sends the teachers alongside Susan to a dilapidated and abandoned supposed alien planet .

3.Susan : Seen as the princess as teachers believe she need saving from her terrible grandfather .They feel she is being abducted by her Grandfather .

Ian : Seen as the Donor in the scene as he helps out Barbara with her case .

Barbara : The hero because she wants to save Susan from harm almost treating her like her own daughter .

Doctor : Seen as the villain because he sends the teachers to an abandoned planet.

4. One of the enigma codes could be the Tardis , it links to the sci-fi theme of space travel and also the idea of supposed aliens on a abandoned planet .

5 Binary oppositions :

Light vs Dark        Inside Tardis vs outside in Junk yard .

Evil vs good          Doctor vs Susan and her teachers .


REPRESENTATION

1. Stereotype of men are reinforced when the Doctor is head of Susan , enforces stereotype of men being in charge of females and connoting that females have a little powerplay . The scene was first made In 1663 where women were seen as domesticated at that time .

2.Subverts stereotype of Barbara looking Susan showing she has significance in Susan's life . Also stereotype is enforced when Susan is a top class student In her school . She scores top scores subverting the stereotype that females are less knowledgable than males . Males were seen as more intelligent at the time when Doctor Who was being casted .

3. Young and Old together were seen as inappropriate and offensive however this attitude has changed throughout time when later on the series females are with males in many adventures and seen as completely normal .

4. White majority groups are still denoted as being the ultimate domination in education and science as all the characters in Doctor Who are white .

AUDIENCE

1.The target audience is mainly old teenagers to young adults .

2. It would mainly be Mainstream audience who favour sci-fi theme series or films . Could also be people who are interested and passionate about science .

3. Personal identity : Susan relates to target audience of teenage students .
    Personal relationship : Relationship between Susan and her Grandfather .
    Diversion:When they find space ship , takes you away from reality and brings you to a fictional environment .

4.Surveillance of the series could attract mainstream and modern trends and audiences that everyone can relate to .

5. Could be Voyeuristic pleasure because it uses a Space dimensional space machine as a way to divert audience to a different world .

INDUSTRIES

1. There were very few channels , at the time there was only BBC 1 .

2. Sci-fi was a very uncommon theme however that changed with the popularity of Doctor Who .

3. Frequently episodes are based on true events such as the episode about Rosa Parks which was a familiar icon for the world . They made many episodes based on real life historical events such as the separation of Pakistan and India .

4. Through Tv licensing where people have to pay to watch what they want on BBC Iplayer .