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1. Slide 1 · title

   Audience Expectations & Response — What viewers expect, and how they respond

2. Slide 2 · statement

   Audience is not the same as society. (The most penalised error in this strand)

3. Slide 3 · diagram

   Start from the audience corner

   Conventions exist because they give a specific audience something.

4. Slide 4 · points

   Pleasures to match to conventions

   • Suspense and prediction
   • Admiring competence
   • Moral judgement and schadenfreude
   • Parasocial attachment
   • Strategic puzzle-solving
5. Slide 5 · statement

   The literacy paradox: the more audiences see the machinery, the harder producers work to make 'real' feel fresh.

6. Slide 6 · question

   Discuss: Do audiences judge contestants — or the rules producers set them?