Types of representation
- Created by: LunaShomeiRose
- Created on: 26-11-19 17:37
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- types of representation
- gender
- male characteristic often portrayed as better
- women often sexualised
- stereotypes can be challenged, however
- audiences make assumptions based on representation
- appearance
- age
- clothes
- visible disability
- attractiveness
- speech
- accent
- choice of words
- use of langauge
- volume
- speed
- behavior
- naturally
- predictably
- empatheticaly
- visual effects
- camera angels
- length of shot
- editing
- lighting
- appearance
- social groups
- focus on power and hierarchy (status)
- media encourages audience to aspire to wealthy upper/middle class lifestyle - working hard, ignoring poverty + inequality causes
- people with common interest / situations (e.g fathers, unemployed, cyclists)
- age
- teenagers = thoughtless + antisocial
- elderly = vulnerable victims
- age of models /actors (advertisement /music vids) reflect target audience
- places
- dangerous (e.g war zone, back streets at night)
- welcoming (e.g. middle class family home, sandy beach)
- simplify the more complicated reality
- ethnicity
- non-white people = underrepresented
- stereotypes + negative representation = common
- gender
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