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Intro to collective identity Influence of the media -         How could they affect us? -         Accurate representations -         Inaccurate or distorted portrayals Dominant stereotypes -         Grumpy -         Lazy -         Unmotivated -         Have it easy -         Vain -         Self obsessed -         Alcoholics Oppositional 1945 – 1960 birth of teen

Collective Identity essay 50 marks Two groups -        British -        Youth (13-24) 20 marks explanation, argument, analysis 20 examples 10 theory/terminology 3 different kindks of media – web (Social media) /TV/YouTube Has to be in the last 5 years -        First ¾ of the page historical representation (the birth of the teenagers in the 50’s) -        Main bulk of the essay is the last 5 years of representation.   -        Last paragraph what you think of teenagers of representations – will in improve in the future –will the teens get more power. Positives -        Educating Yorkshire -        BGT, X factor -        Sports - Tom Daley – young Olympian -      ...

Apply the concept of  audience  to one of your media productions. Music video Three questions: why do audience chose to consume certain texts? how do they consume texts? what happens when they consume texts? There are three theorists of audience that we can apply to help come to better understanding about the relationships between texts and audience. the effects model or the hypodermic model. the uses and gratification mode-  reception theory PIES personal identification  Information- newspaper, news, documentaries  Entertainment  Social Interaction-  reception theory  decoding/ encoding  preferred reading  negotiated  oppositional ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At A2 we created music video, the genre was pop/R&B and is performance based.  The song we cho...

Apply the concept of narrative to one of your productions. Intro Narrative - what is it Brief overview of you film opening (name, plot, genre) Todorov - every film has an equilibrum - disruption ad restration of equilibrum We challenged Todorov in our film opening  We disregarded Todorov's theory as it did not fit with our film genre. Levi Strauss - binary oppos itons  Used to create meaning used to show differences  - sober/drunk - Old/ young conform/subvert Propp - stock characters - usually males being in charge  - we subverted this theory by having a female bad guy  Barthes - Enigma coding - creating some mystery the audience is interested and want to watch more - We used enigma coding. ................................................................................................................................................................... Narrative is the way the different elements in a story are organi...