Woody's group
- Interested in their appearance
Combo's group
- Far right politics
- blame problems on imigration
- sense of belonging
- combo emotionally immature
- turns on his own group
- "leave those two alone they did nothing to you"
Fauklands - about protecting the oil reserves
young people represented as naive in politics
Friday, 19 June 2015
Media Language Notes
- Signifier - object that signifies something
- Signified - The meaning that is given to the object
- Denotation - what you see
- connotation - the meaning we give to what we see.
- Stacking - in order for an audience to interpret something in the way you want them to you
Saussure - audience can look at a media text from a syntactic pointy of view just describing what they see, or from a representational or symbolic point of view where the attribute meaning to what they see
Flske - denotation is what is filmed, connotation is how its filmed
Barthes - An audience's understanding of media texts comes from their understanding and knowledge of frequently told myths or stories. He argues that the organisation of signs encodes particular messages and ideologies.
Chandler - Says that semiotics is important because it helps us not take 'reality' for granted as something that can exist without human interpretation.
Stuart Hall - Argued that meaning is not fixed by the producer and the audience is not passive, gave us different readings, the preferred reading is where the audience reads it the way that you wanted them to.
- Signified - The meaning that is given to the object
- Denotation - what you see
- connotation - the meaning we give to what we see.
- Stacking - in order for an audience to interpret something in the way you want them to you
Saussure - audience can look at a media text from a syntactic pointy of view just describing what they see, or from a representational or symbolic point of view where the attribute meaning to what they see
Flske - denotation is what is filmed, connotation is how its filmed
Barthes - An audience's understanding of media texts comes from their understanding and knowledge of frequently told myths or stories. He argues that the organisation of signs encodes particular messages and ideologies.
Chandler - Says that semiotics is important because it helps us not take 'reality' for granted as something that can exist without human interpretation.
Stuart Hall - Argued that meaning is not fixed by the producer and the audience is not passive, gave us different readings, the preferred reading is where the audience reads it the way that you wanted them to.
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Stan Cohen
- deviance amplification - events more likely to be reported - audience thinks the situation is worse than it is. Police will attempt to manage the problem. Becomes moral panic
- moral panics - leads from deviant behaviour
- folk devils
Gerbner
- people who watch a lot of tv overestimate the amount of crime in the world.
- mean world syndrome
- cultivation theory
- any one text has minimal impact on audience, but watching the same thing will change your opinion.
David Gauntlett
- "identities are not given, they are contracted and negotiated"
David Buckingham
a focus on identity requires us to pay close attention to the diverse ways in which technologies are used in everyday life and their consequences for both individuals and social groups
collective identity - a sense of belonging to a group that people have
Media is run by a small group of people to make sure they maintain their position.
hegemony - dominant ideology
Steve Anderson - younger people are becoming a lot more empowered because of social media platforms such as facebook, twitter and blogging
- deviance amplification - events more likely to be reported - audience thinks the situation is worse than it is. Police will attempt to manage the problem. Becomes moral panic
- moral panics - leads from deviant behaviour
- folk devils
Gerbner
- people who watch a lot of tv overestimate the amount of crime in the world.
- mean world syndrome
- cultivation theory
- any one text has minimal impact on audience, but watching the same thing will change your opinion.
David Gauntlett
- "identities are not given, they are contracted and negotiated"
David Buckingham
a focus on identity requires us to pay close attention to the diverse ways in which technologies are used in everyday life and their consequences for both individuals and social groups
collective identity - a sense of belonging to a group that people have
Media is run by a small group of people to make sure they maintain their position.
hegemony - dominant ideology
Steve Anderson - younger people are becoming a lot more empowered because of social media platforms such as facebook, twitter and blogging
Representation notes
- Protagonist - the director wants to be on the side of this character
- Antagonist - the director wants the audience to want them to fail
character typing
- Archetype - familiar character who has emerged from hundreds of years and fairytales and storytelling
- Stereotype - can be used negatively in the media - 'hoodies;
- generic type 0 familiar character used in a particular genre
Receiving media texts
- Antagonist - the director wants the audience to want them to fail
character typing
- Archetype - familiar character who has emerged from hundreds of years and fairytales and storytelling
- Stereotype - can be used negatively in the media - 'hoodies;
- generic type 0 familiar character used in a particular genre
Receiving media texts
Friday, 12 June 2015
This is England
The film opening shows a reflective representation as real life footage is shown for example of riots and Margret Thatcher.
Woody's
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