B3: How do your chosen texts attract their audiences?

B3: How do your chosen texts attract their audiences?

In the episode of Lost, there are various technical conventions that are used to attract a mass audience. For example, enigma codes are widely used across the episode to make the audience interested and to appeal to a wide range of people. When the little boy finds the handcuffs, the audience question about whose they are, which is further questioned when his father comes and he looks around the area as if someone will come and retrieve them. Non-diegetic music is also used at this point to enhance the enigma as it is a low tone and a slow speed as the information settles in the father's mind that there could be someone dangerous on the island with them. Referring to the Uses and Gratifications theory, it provides the audience entertainment because it's something that wouldn't happen so could be an escapism, but the enigmas also provide entertainment.

- Refer to Uses and Grats theory
- Look at how the audience responds to the various sequences
- Look at equilibrium and disequilibrium


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