Lost Audience

Identify who is the intended target audience?

It can often be argued that Lost has a mainstream audience. This is often assumed because the text is a wide, mainstream text that is attractive to a lot of people. It is argued that this is the intended audience because of the technical conventions that are present in the text.

The first convention that makes me believe this is a mainstream text is the use of a non linear narrative. There is a regular use of flashbacks when the characters are remembering what happened before the plane crash. Most mainstream texts nowadays tend to make use of the non linear narrative, for example; Sherlock.     This is evidenced in the text in the second scene when it begins with footage from the Island and then cuts to a flashback from Charly of him hiding in the plane toilet. Most dramas tend to have elements of a non linear narrative as it keeps the audience engaged and it allows us to find out background information about the characters.

A second convention that makes me believe this is a mainstream text is the use of stereotypes. J. J. Abrams has chosen to use these representations as it helps the mainstream audience to understand it. The women have been represented as reliant on men and we see this when Kate has to gain jacks approval to go on the hike and when Hurley faints at the sight of blood he is shown as a Jester, one of propps typical character roles. The media tend to represent overweight people