Audience Task

Intended Audience

The intended audience for peppa pig is 3-5 years old. the episode is only 5 mins long making sure that the child doesn't looses concentration and become bored. having the child's attention is crucial as there are moral lessons within the story and for the show to sell it has to entertain. i think that a child over the age of 5 would possibly find the content lacking in more complex dialogue and the story or theme to simple. many children at the ages 5-8 have quite a steep learning curve and can start to understand children's rights and wrongs in society and conversation with people become more fluent.

Gratification

The episode contains conversations between the family using only simple English. this makes the story easy to follow. Also the narration we here is a chain of short descriptive sentences, and spoken at a fairly slow pace giving the child time to listen to what is being said and also time to enjoy the visuals. The colour scheme is very wide and unrealistic; the colours seen are very vibrant and eye catching. Children love to see a wide mix of colours, therefore the screen play itself grabs the child attention. the fact that the cartoon is drawn in a way where it looks un-neat and quickly hand drawn makes it more relaetable to children of a young age as the drawings they do themselves would have the same sort of look to them.

How its constructed

the cartoon has a linear story, therefore it is very simple for the child to follow. the layout of the cartoon is almost 2D, so when the characters move we always see a side on version of them. the episode only lasts 5 mins in which time we have a begining middle and end. on their journey home we see the car turning into a boat. this is a clever construction of imagination as the child will be wowed by the car transforming. i believe the clip leaves alot of room for children to add their own imagination into it, this could be why the backgrounds are so plain; so the children can, in their head, add more to that world.