How To Improve

What I Can Improve On
When redoing the exam I need to use more media terms and language.
I also must put theories to my points like the Uses and Gratifications Theory.

Audience Question
I must integrate more theories into the question.
It also needs to be more detailed and points expanded.

Representation Question
Again use sing theories and expand answers more.

Revision and Study
revise past papers and mock exam
look at notes at the end of each month

males

Homefront Trailer

• Strong and powerful, reinforced by many low angles of the protagonist and his physical build. 
• Close-ups of the child to show his fatherhood, which is a positive representation as it shows his gentle and successful nature.

The Wanted

• Represented as carefree and fun, aiming to find women and "own" them.
• Drinking pints at a pub to show their typical British masculinity.
• Typically attractive
• Camera focuses upon one waving a woman over with the flick of a wrist to show his control and power over women.

Dolce & Gabbanna The One: Street of Dreams

• The black and white alongside the man's suit and old-fashioned non-diegetic music adds a sense of class.
• Driving a car - masculine.
• Two-shot and low angle of both - equally elegant. 

cagney and lacey

Cagney and Lacey are placed in an 80's white male dominant world, working as police officers. This therefore shows their strength as woman and their ability to climb the social ladder at the same pace as men. However, the fact that they are working in a male environment with slim figures, fashionable clothing and well-made faces and hair, it is suggested that women need to look attractive to be intelligent.
     In the opening scene, the cab's passenger is verbally abusive, quoting that she "sprinkles the place with powder and perfume." This is a stereotypical representation of women, however because they are the protagonists, the audience supports them and their motives, and equally find this offensive.
    Both dress in trousers and buttoned up shirts and so aren't represented as sexualised objects, and the focus of the programme is upon their minds, contrasting against the alpha male character who wears an unbuttoned shirt to expose his chest. This warps the typical representations of gender within the media, as usually women are provocotively dressed.

Representation Task

Age

This is a scene from he 1994 film Trainspotting. The film is about a man and his friends taking drugs and the effects of them. However, this scene is based on what happens when he is in a night club and what he can see. It starts with the main character and then it goes into a POV shot where it shows what he can see. I think it shows a negative representation of young people as not all 20-25 year olds go out night clubbing for girls and drugs. He manages to spot someone he is interested in and it makes her look like an easy target. The film as a whole is rather powerful and definitely a serious film but a lot of the representations of the younger generations are negative. 

Representation Task

Gender

This is part of an episode of mistresses. It's an American programme. I think it represents women in a few ways, dizzy, active and sexually. The way she walks into the kitchen at the beginning is rather light and like a small child plus she is dressed in a pink top so it could show that she is a bit simple minded and like a child. it shows that they are either weight conscious or active as they are off out on a run and she is absolutely shattered. The sexually representation comes in because one of the girls are lesbian and is asking if the other has ever thought about it. They are also sexualised as the one in the pink has her clothes fitted well to her body. Most women would see this as abad representation as not all girls are sexually attractive or a bit dizzy. 

Representation Task

Class-Newspaper

This article is for class. it is an article from the daily mail and it is based on a family which was not allowed a council house as they have dogs and budgies. the representation is both negative and positive. It is negative to say that the family aren't living well as they are too stubborn to let there pets go but it also makes you feel sorry for them to think that they are being made to give them up. In the article it say that she is 54 and has five children this is a bad representation as she clearly needs the house but is refusing it, so it makes her look careless.