Explore the different ways in which audiences and/or users respond to your chosen text

"Explore the different ways in which audiences and/or users respond to your chosen text"

The AMC niche drama Mad Men has had many different audience responses since it has been released. The different responses include been nominated for awards,  good reviews from critics and discussions on social media blogs.

Mad Men has been nominated for 206 awards in total and has won 62 of them (15 of them being EMMYs). Showing the positive reaction to the television show from both famous critics and general viewers.

With the increasing popularity of using social media to interact with people around the world, A lot of blogs were formed to discuss Mad Men. An example of a blog that was set up because of the AMC drama was The Guardians Mad Men blog. This popular blog involved episodes of the show, recaps and discussions on different characters and so on.

Mad Mens reviews also showed the positive audience reaction, achieveing a 4 and a half star rating on IMBD

Lost
Identify who is the intended audience of your chosen text.

Lost is a popular sky 1 drama directed by J.J Abrams. The dramas target audience is passive and mainstream audiences. The director of the show uses many conventions to appeal to the intended target audience.

The first example of a convention used which justifies that Lost is a mainstream text is the use of a non-linear narrative. This is when the narrative is not shown in chronalogical order. This is present in the text when we see Charly in the jungle after the crash has taken place, we then see him have a flashback of when he was on the plane. This is a popular convention used in drama, as lots of other texts from with in the genre use non-linear narratives.