Choose: Three conventions which will attract or are constructed to attract certain audiences.
Evidence: These conventions with narrative evidence/descriptions.
Lost is an American television series, first aired in 2004, directed by J. J. Abrams. The series attracted a wide mainstream audience, encoded to be inclusive. The enigma codes and narrative themes enable both active and passive audiences to be gratified by it.
- Hybrid genre
- Ensemble cast
- Genre conventions and enigma codes
The genre of the text attracts a wide audience, due to its hybridity combining action adventure, fantasy and science-fiction. This attracts a wider audience, conforming to more areas of the uses and gratifications theory. A larger audience can be reached as fans of the genres will watch the series, as the genres are very popular. People are already familiar with the genres and want to watch what they already know.
The ensemble cast enables the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time, therefore allowing flexibility for the writers to focus on different characters in different episodes. The audience can usually identify with 1 or more of the narrative issues or different cultural and society groups for example nationality, as the nationalities of the characters include American, English, Korean, Australian and Iraqi.
The ensemble cast enables the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time, therefore allowing flexibility for the writers to focus on different characters in different episodes. The audience can usually identify with 1 or more of the narrative issues or different cultural and society groups for example nationality, as the nationalities of the characters include American, English, Korean, Australian and Iraqi.
Through the genre conventions and enigma codes, the audience can be easily identified. The use of frenetic chase scenes and fast pace cuts increasing tension are all conventions of the action genre. An example of this is the scene where the hiking group are being chased by the Polar Bear. All of these conventions are used, creating tension and mystery in addition to creating an enigma code as to why the bear is on a tropical island. The quest for the radio transmitter signal is a convention of the fantasy genre, in addition to the supernatural phenomena of the Polar Bear living on a tropical island. Science fiction genre conventions are present throughout the series, however they are not very apparent within the first few episodes. The narrative explores rationally alternative possibilities, justifying unlikely events with scientific theories.
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