12B Cross Media Case Study HW - UNUGAR

My case study is made up of three primary text, these three primary texts are South Park, Family guy and American dad. They each have a similar genre which is adult humour/ sitcom animation. Each three of these operate across 3 different media platforms which are Broadcasting, Print and Emedia. From my case study "Audiences are no longer just consumers to text, but producers too"
To what extent is this true of the media products in your case study?

How does South Park cause the audience to create their own new characters’?

In South Park we know that there are 4 main characters’ who are, Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Kenny McCormick. These 4 characters’ have been a part of south park since the beginning, and sure enough if the audience begin to see them over and over doing the similar things every day it could become quite boring to watch, and because of this the South Park producers began introducing new characters’ but they were not a part of the main four, there were simple one episode characters’, the ones that did stay where the ones who seemed they could become a hit in South Park. But what the producers did not see is what the audience really wanted, they wanted to see new faces in the main four, well maybe not new but something’s fresh, the audience began to email and send letter to the producers of south park advising new ideas, so the producers listened and did as they were asked to, in different episodes they began giving the characters’ new costumes and began showing them in different ways, soon this began to get old, so now the producers have created a way the audience can also become producers. On the south park website you are able to create your own south park characters’ and write a small paragraph about your created character, if it is good enough the producers turn your characters’ into an everyday south park character, and your character features in the south park episodes. An example of this is the south park character “Kellerman” he was produces by a member of the audience, and because the South park producers thought he would be good for the series they turned him into a real character, and there you had a audience becoming the producer of  Kellerman. 

A small community from Houston, Texas in the USA would publish a magazine which was only made for their neighbourhood, and one day a member from that community who was a part of printing the magazine printed their own version of South Park as a cartoon strip, and this was based upon the events that would happen in their neighbour hood, once this became noticed and the people liked it very much, it started to become a every week thing in their local magazine, once the South Park producers had noticed this, they then began to receive one of the magazine every week, and the cartoon strips they liked and thought would get views are the ones they would produce into the real cartoon and air live on TV, one of the most popular episodes they had created from the magazine was “lil crime stoppers”, this episode was based on the small community in where items would go missing, rubbish bags were ripped open and dead animals would be found around the area, and the kids from the community would play as police officers and found out the case of everything, and they came to find out it was a family of fox’s, but when it came down to being produced it got changed around a bit to make more appealing to adults as it is an adult humour cartoon. So from this we can see that a small community of people who are the audience became the producers of an episode of South Park.

Another way the audience of South Park also became the producers is through an episode that was already made, in the South park episode Randy Marsh better known as Stan’s dad got a job in a chicken shop where he dresses up like a chicken and stands out side trying to promote the shop. A member of the audience had seen this episode and went out and got the exact same job as Randy Marsh, he would have done every thing Randy Marsh would have done and more, so this began to attract more customers, again the producers and South Park team had got involved and took advantage of this and would take what the member of the audience was doing and made Randy Marsh in the cartoon do it. So from this we can see that an audience member did what he saw in the cartoon and added his own to it, his actions got produced which would have made him part producer of those selected episodes.

Another way the audience became producers is by literally creating their own episodes and uploading them on to the internet, but these episode were less of the adult humour but just humour which even kids can watch, but this was only available in America as the people who created it could only keep it with in a certain boundary, although none of their episodes were aired on tv, the people still managed to produce virtual episodes of south park, so from this we can see that they also became producers of south park.

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