Reception Theory
Firstly, my text is the 2015
film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trails. This film has a target audience of people
who enjoy action/drama/sci-fi films however I also think, that the target
audience would be female young adults/teenagers as the main character is Dylan
O'Brien as the main character Thomas. The method of audience classification with Young and Rubican's 4c’s, I would classify this movie to be appealing to the Succeeder as this film includes a lot of competition which requires a lot of control, which the succeeder's core need in life is for just that.
Secondly, the preferred reading of this text would be that the film will be filled with drama and thrilling. What the encoders want to achieve with this trailer of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trails is for people to take a preferred reading and also for an audience to keep the suspense up of what the whole film will be like. The ideologies which are encoded is that life is a challenge, due to the visible dramatic scenes in the film, that give an audience a feel as to what the film will be like. The text celebrates that you can defeat any challenges that life throws at you, even if you fail the first time... The underlying messages and what this film tells us about life is that everything is never as it seems, due to the amount of different scenes actually shown in the text and how the audience will perceive this.
Thirdly, the ideologies and feelings that could be held by someone who understands the text but rejects what it is trying to do (Oppositional Reader) could firstly be the simple fact that they are happy in their own life all the time therefore could disagree with the ideology of "Everything is never as it seems". Another thing is that the trailer looks quite unrealistic, and from my own personal experience, I know that, that is the case- but the encoders have not attempted for that to come across. An Oppositional Reader's Cultural Experience might lead to this because, due to this film only being in the cinema now as it is fairly new, people will go there to watch it and may be distracted by people talking, so either you're too focused on telling them to be quiet or you're too busy concentrating on what they're talking about. Finally another thing is that if a person perhaps didn't want to go to the cinema, however watch it in the comfort of their own home so go onto an illegal streaming film site to watch it- but it's poor quality on a tiny screen, therefore it could make a person's experience of watching the film a lot less effective than going to the cinema to see it.
Fourthly, the situated culture of this text may lead it's audience to taking a oppositional reading, due to distractions of where they are and who they are with. However, how it may lead them to taking a negotiated reading to the text may be because of who they're with at the time for example a person is sitting watching the film and you're really enjoying it- think its great, but then your friend sitting next to you thinks that it is awful, and has only negative things to say about the film; pointing out everything wrong with it and then they tell you and you start to doubt yourself liking the film and start to agree with some aspects of what your friend is saying.
Secondly, the preferred reading of this text would be that the film will be filled with drama and thrilling. What the encoders want to achieve with this trailer of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trails is for people to take a preferred reading and also for an audience to keep the suspense up of what the whole film will be like. The ideologies which are encoded is that life is a challenge, due to the visible dramatic scenes in the film, that give an audience a feel as to what the film will be like. The text celebrates that you can defeat any challenges that life throws at you, even if you fail the first time... The underlying messages and what this film tells us about life is that everything is never as it seems, due to the amount of different scenes actually shown in the text and how the audience will perceive this.
Thirdly, the ideologies and feelings that could be held by someone who understands the text but rejects what it is trying to do (Oppositional Reader) could firstly be the simple fact that they are happy in their own life all the time therefore could disagree with the ideology of "Everything is never as it seems". Another thing is that the trailer looks quite unrealistic, and from my own personal experience, I know that, that is the case- but the encoders have not attempted for that to come across. An Oppositional Reader's Cultural Experience might lead to this because, due to this film only being in the cinema now as it is fairly new, people will go there to watch it and may be distracted by people talking, so either you're too focused on telling them to be quiet or you're too busy concentrating on what they're talking about. Finally another thing is that if a person perhaps didn't want to go to the cinema, however watch it in the comfort of their own home so go onto an illegal streaming film site to watch it- but it's poor quality on a tiny screen, therefore it could make a person's experience of watching the film a lot less effective than going to the cinema to see it.
Fourthly, the situated culture of this text may lead it's audience to taking a oppositional reading, due to distractions of where they are and who they are with. However, how it may lead them to taking a negotiated reading to the text may be because of who they're with at the time for example a person is sitting watching the film and you're really enjoying it- think its great, but then your friend sitting next to you thinks that it is awful, and has only negative things to say about the film; pointing out everything wrong with it and then they tell you and you start to doubt yourself liking the film and start to agree with some aspects of what your friend is saying.
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