Audience Classification Peter Shock

TV Series-Breaking Bad

Audience profiling I feel is very effective as you are able to customize and change what questions you need to ask,  to relate to the media text you are referring to. The questions I believe this would be asking is what is your age?  This would probably be between the ages of 20 and 40 as this is a show you really need to be able to relate to. For this series I think you need to have some understanding of how you spend money in the real world and the problems that are presented when doing so. Another question that would be most certainly there is Do you have a family? I believe this because this show is based on a man risking everything for their family but not in the most of conventional ways, so appealing to a family man and the lengths they would go to, to protect them.

The income and status model is a good model as it focuses on quite a large bit of society and is very effective in capturing there attention this is done through making the text extremely relatable to the class they are aiming at. This is why I believe breaking bad would attract class D because this is the class that struggles to keep their heads above water but just about manages and once again this is very relatable to the series and as a result this would attract this certain classes attention, for the simple reason that this series is an exaggerated example of finical struggles, so it is also an escape for those who are not able to do what the series is doing because in the real world it’s almost impossible and they would rather live it through sitting safely behind the TV.

Young and Rubicams 4c’s is the least effective of the 4 I have chosen but still has its advantages as it is really concentrating on a specific part of society so an audience is almost guaranteed. I think The Mainstreamer would be the right one to put to Breaking Bad. The first reason is that it has been running for a while now and has gained a large audience and is very popular over in America an Imdb making it, there 2^nd most watched series ever, therefor is must be a very mainstream series also just the story alone is very mainstream and relates to every single citizen of America who cannot afford health insurance and those who are proud people and don’t enjoy accepting help of others so go to extremes.

Lifestyle categories just goes that one more step into detail after the young and rubicams 4c’s model, concentrating on a more specific part of society for breaking bad which would be the cowboys as the series is concentrating on making big money as quickly and as easily possible whether they are breaking the law and at some point the series probably become a cowboys dream, with all the money there constantly stumbling across through the series .