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Unit 4: Power and persuasion
Quick questions on Genre and audience engagement: WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 4
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What is knowing the target audience?Show answer
A target audience is the specific group a persuasive text is designed to reach and move. Producers research the audience's age, interests, values and viewing habits, then shape genre and engagement to fit. A message aimed at teenagers on social media uses fast pacing, humour and platform-native style; the same message for an older audience on broadcast television may be slower and more formal. Matching the strategy to the audience is what makes persuasion land.
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