Learning objective: To consider what key representations means.
You will be asked about representations in your MS4 exam.
Straight away you should consider stereotypes. The two go hand in hand as a vehicle for your exploration of the concept.
You need to know the difference between representations and stereotypes.
How stereotypes can be harmful and why they are constructed by media producers.
Points you could cover if asked about representations are:
Gender - typical and stereotypical.
Issues - things like police attitudes and approaches. Be specific about the texts we have looked at.
Places - think how the places in your texts are represented. London, Manchester and generic Northern town.
Ethnicity - Revise the work we did on the representation of ethnicity.
Nationality - what does it mean to be British in these texts?
Apply theory when you are discussing key areas of representation. Laura Mulvey for example.
You will be asked about representations in your MS4 exam.
Straight away you should consider stereotypes. The two go hand in hand as a vehicle for your exploration of the concept.
You need to know the difference between representations and stereotypes.
How stereotypes can be harmful and why they are constructed by media producers.
Points you could cover if asked about representations are:
Gender - typical and stereotypical.
Issues - things like police attitudes and approaches. Be specific about the texts we have looked at.
Places - think how the places in your texts are represented. London, Manchester and generic Northern town.
Ethnicity - Revise the work we did on the representation of ethnicity.
Nationality - what does it mean to be British in these texts?
Apply theory when you are discussing key areas of representation. Laura Mulvey for example.
You will be asked to explore genre conventions within the texts you have studied.
Discuss why genre conventions are used and why they appeal to audiences,
To explore means to write discursively. To cover a variety of points such as:
How typical are the genre conventions used in the text? What expectations would the audience have from the conventions you point out?
What iconography is there?
What characters/character types?
Discuss the storylines and plots. See my slideshow from yesterday.
Settings and locations.
Mise en scene.
Use of dialogue, music, language used.
Use of technical codes.
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