Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Exam Representation Case Studies

Film Trailer - The Inbetweeners 2

- Comedy

- Characters represented as students who don't really fit into any social groups

- A negative representation of age as their main focus is sex, sun and booze

- Language used by the characters is simplified - representation of how young people talk (negative)

- The characters' behaviour can influence how their audience feel toward the subject of the film

- The film's target audience can also relate to this - the majority of the film's audience is within this age range so they will be able to relate to the things they are doing

- The characters have individual personalities which can represent age differently: a liar, the dumb one, the smart one and the loser. These individual personalities can be relatable to different people

- The idea that teenagers, or 'inbetweeners', just want to party abroad is massively portrayed throughout the whole film as it is the underlying theme.

- Majority of the jokes in the trailer are surrounding the topic of sex - represents young people negatively as this could mean this is all they talk about


TV Programme - Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

- Negative representation of teenagers on their first holiday with their mates and without their parents

- Parents are chosen specifically so a good programme is made - for example in season 2, episode 1, jehovah's witnesses are chosen as parents as it makes a more interesting reaction when they find out what their children have been doing.

- Introducing the lads - they are in a pub drinking, stereotypical place to be for 18-19 year old lads

- A scene where he asks for his mum to cut his toenails for him while he's in the bath, negative representation as it tells us he can't do anything by himself

- Packing his bags scene - his mum has already bought things for him that lads at this age are expected to get themselves, e.g. condoms

- Son seen playing around and taunting his dad, can show a negative representation of his relationship with his dad and this could be generalised to a wider representation of teenage boys in the country although it may not be true

- The boys doing shots at 4am in the morning - negative representation of lads as they feel the need to drink as soon as they depart

- Montage of teens going crazy, partying, drinking and generally being sexual with each other

- Girls group filmed doing laughing gas - negative representation of cheap thrills and highs

- One of the lads filmed getting nude in a club and getting kicked out - negative - lack of responsibility and maturity

- Constructed reactions between parents as they are so different

- Mid way through interview one of the girls is sick - this isn't cut out of the programme because the producers want to leave this negative representations of immaturity and informality



Advert - Shreddies Cereal


- Old woman - key aspects: grey hair, glasses, cardigan, pearl necklace

- Representation that old women, particularly grandmas, can and do knit

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