Representation is not reality. It is the reconstruction of reality. Representations are reconstructions that are formed from shot types and edits and colours and costumes: media language. But what are the things that are actually being represented and reconstructed in the media products we have studied in component one?
Music videos - Formation - The representation of ethnicity, racism, slavery, the representation of women, and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in the US south. Also BLM
Music videos - 17 Going Under - The representation of poverty and the North East of England, of teenagers and various other interconnected social issues
Advertising - Tide Advert - The domestication of women, and the reinforcement of hegemonic, patriarchal values, the housewife stereotype
Advertising - Super.Human advert - challenging representations of disability and stereotypical representations of people with disabilities (and of the United Kingdom) -
Advertising - KOTV - the representations gender in the 1960s, including the stereotypical representations of women
Newspapers - The Times (™) - the use of representations to manipulate the political ideology of the pre-sold audience, to reinforce ideologies and to shape the audience
Newspapers - The Daily Mirror (™) - the use of representations to manipulate the political ideology of the pre-sold audience, to reinforce ideologies and to shape the audience