Describe the ways in which different television fictional narratives appeal to their audience, refer to specific texts in your answer.
The narrative of a television programme is the way in which the storyline unfolds, the narrative shows how meaning is constructed in order to achieve the audiences understanding. Narratives unfold differently in television texts and are constructed through the camera work, sound and mise-en-scene, it refers to all the events, explicitly presented and inferred to tell the story.
As narratives vary from text to text they appeal to their audiences in different ways. One such television programme is the hybrid text 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' which falls in the teen drama and horror genres. 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' uses a self-contained narrative with each storyline beginning and ending within the same episode. The text also uses re-gendering of characters within the narrative to make it more interesting to its target audience. …
