GoggleBox

Representation 

Audience

Message

Production value 

What is the show about ?

Gogglebox is a reality TV show that records a few families and couples reactions to many of the popular shows on TV now. It is ment to be as a normal and realistic reaction that makes people realate to the audience as many opinions said on the show are what many families at home are thinking.

Why is its setting in the home? 

The setting is in the home as it is the natural set up that many watch each of these programmes and it relates to the audience. It is natural reactions because it is represented like there are no cameras just there responses and opinions.

Where are they from ?

The locations for each of the couples or families vary from Brighton to Bradford. The variety helps is seen in the look of the inside of the house, the accents and what each of them do e.g. Drinking wine. There are also a variety of religions, class backgrouds etc. You can see the divide in classes e.g.  The posh couple ( Steph and Dom) are seen drinking wine while sitting on a lavish sofa and set up. 

Another example of a couple is the best friends who live in Bradford you can see they are more lower class as the way they always have taje awaya and the setup of their sitting room is very simple and different to the upper class couple.

Representation: Gogglebox represents quite a few different things in the show down to the set up of the house to the couples. They represent different races in the variety of people they show and what their background and houses are like. They show a gay couple and a straight couple showing how the country is more excepting now and how it is a normal. The ages differ from old teen to old men and women showing how the same show is seen by different ages and genders, this is why I liked this show due to the expanse of differences.

Audience: This show is mainly set out from the ages of late teens for example around the 16/17 age to Middle Aged or elderly. This is good because the programme shows the contrast that would attract a variety of different peoples and ages and throughout the show various people to connect to one family or couple more which I find clever as it opens the audience much wider rather than just watching one family and one programme at one time, but this shows has a variety of programmes and content.

Message: I think the message of the show is that if you are a different class, age, gender, religion, race etc. you are all watching the same programme but you are all different showing how the world has changed as many years ago being gay was not really excepted and now it is on TV shows how far it has come. Overall it shows the come together of strangers with the same interest in watching the show which I find incredible and well put. This attracts the expansive audience and the spreading of each of their messages.

Production Value: I think that this programme was made by having a room with minimal canera which are positioned to the one spot for each of the people to be in shot and have the sound right so the clarity of their opinion is easily seen. In the editing stage I think that the close ups would happen in the way where they show each of their facial expressions or emotions, and also I think they cut the scenes which showed the reactions that many would relate to. 

In other opinion many think that each of the house set ups is in a constructed set up with a lot of cameras that get each angle and have the different room set ups which I find increble as it has deceived many of our audience if this is the case.