Exam Questions

What techniques does the opening sequence use to appeal to a weekday mainstream audience?

The opening sequence uses The Uses and Gratifications Theory, to evoke emotions out of the audience. A weekday mainstream audience would be watching this program after work in the evenings, in the opening of the programme, the couple are shown to be getting ready for work in the morning, leading the audience to identify with the characters. This can also be seen through the realtionship that is shown between the two charcters, as the audience may be feeling liek that about a partner, and reflect on thier lives. Although as these things may not happen in actual life, the audience may use the program as escapism for thier real lives. As they may have the stresses of thier everyday work lives.
The audience may also form a relationship with those on screen, as the actor is well known in other BBC Dramas, and audience may watch it becuase of him, therefore having expectaions of the Drama.
Also, having the two characters speak in a foreign language, may inject ideas, attitudes and beliefs into the audience, the Hypodemic Needle Model, which belives that we are a passive audience, therefore, suggesting that us as an audience will believe that those that speak of a foreign language, are all terroists.