Bad Education
Discuss in detail how one programme (Bad Education) offers audience
pleasures. Give examples from the programme. [15 marks]
‘Bad
Education’ is a comedy which is set in a high school; the comedy is set in the
same location with the same characters. This lets the audience build a
relationship between the characters. ‘Bad Education’ gives us audience gratification because of the stereotypes presented in the
program. One stereotype presented is the ‘chav’ in the high school; this can be
seen as a white guy in a hoody with a cap talking in slang.
Audience
pleasures in ‘Bad Education’ are that you like ‘Mr Wickers’ because although he
screws up and gets something’s wrong he is a likeable character. All the other
teachers aren’t very likeable; ‘Fraser’ the headmaster is silly and completely
unsuitable for the role. ‘Miss Goluver’ is a very sickly good character that
you can’t really relate to as Mr Wickers has a good heart behind what he does
therefore the audience like him and can sympathise with him no matter about his
stupid choices, he makes it funny and predictable when the audience watches. He
is like a teenager himself this is why young adults like him.
Jack
Whitehall who plays ‘Mr Wickers’ is a British comedian loved by a pacific
audience which is young adults and above. This is important because when his
fans find out about a comedy he is in they are more likely to watch it because
he is in it.
Good use of media terms here because you have named specific audience pleasures. Now try and include some more evidence about why people return to the programme even though they know what to expect.
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