LOST exam response

'Most media texts target a rang of different audiences' How true is this to your chosen text?

JJ Abram's 'Lost' has the intended audience of a wide mainstream audience, both active and passive audiences are gratified by a use of carefully constructed conventions of mainstream texts.

A convention used in order to appeal to a wide, mainstream audience is the use of an ensemble cast. 'Lost' has a large cast with a wide range characters of different race, age genders and nationality for all audiences to relate too, such as 'John Lock' 'Syiid' 'Walt' and 'Clair' - an old man, an asian middle aged man, a child, and a young pregnant woman. 'Lost' has given each of these characters have an equal amount of screen time to enable the audience to be able to  relate to them.

Another convention used is the use of combining escapism and using a relatable plot to be able to appeal to a wider audience. To an audience that is gratified to the use of escapism, 'lost' appeals to them by the mise-en-scene, set in a mystical island creating fantasy and diverting the audience from real life.