Stephen Archibald B-tec Media Studies

Codes and conventions of games shows that are followed are: a live studio audience, prize money, questions, contestants, host. Two target audiences will be people who enjoy watching quiz shows for excitement and the suspense. Another target audience will be intelligent people want to see how well they do and to expand their knowledge.

The clip creates intrigue and excitement for the audience by having tense music play at the start. This suggests that danger or harm is coming. This creates intrigue because you want to know what is going to happen to the men. Music is also used to create excitement. When the fighting starts the music becomes faster and more tense. It creates intrigue when Poldark gets hit and we see him have a flashback. We want to know who the girl is and what's happened between them. The genre is a historical action drama. we can tell this because of the costumes they wear, the guns, how they speak and the horses being used. We know it's action because of the setting and the fighting and it's set in a war.  A typical convention of tv drama is conflict. There is conflict in the clip when they are fighting. And the setting is war which is also a conflict. Three potential audiences for this show would be people who like history and historical battles, people who like the acto...