My top track right now.

This is my favourate track roght now, Cousins by vampire weekend. The reason why i like this song is because of the unstructured guitar solos that make a edgy and different sound than just regual pop that we see every day. The bass creates an irreagualr heartbeat that sticks into your head and makes your head move to the music.The lyrics in this song mashed together and dont make much sense but somehow you make it make sense to you, they make you fell happy, if a song cant do that then whats the point. 'Dad was a risk taker. His was a shoe maker. You greatest hits 2006, Little listmaker. Caught in the melody, You wait in the car. You were born with ten fingers And you're gonna use them all.' these words sepreatley would make no sense but add it to a catchy melody and you've got a great song maybe not to everyones taste but it's mine.

Representation. The seven key areas.

7 key areas.
- Gender
- Age
- Ethnicity
- Sexuality
- Class and status
- Physucal ability/disbility
- Regional identity.


*Disability.


Disability in the MediaThe word "disabled" causes much debate.

The 'dis' suffix is a negative one, implying reversal, and disabled heads a list in the dictionary of many negative words - disappoint, discard, disconsolate, discourage, disintegrate, dismay, disrepute etc.

That same dictionary defines the word "disabled" as meaning "Made ineffective, unfit or incapable". Quite rightly, those members of the population who find themselves labelled feel tarred with a distasteful brush.

Verbal codes aside, the iconography surrounding the word suggests a similar plight, hence the European Union symbol:Here is someone who is not simply "in" a wheelchair (are all disabled people in wheelchairs?, but who relies on the structure of the chair to give them arms. It is small wonder that the word "disabled" immediately connotates wheelchairs, and concepts such as broken, dependent, pitiable etc.

Given the semiotics of the situation, it is small wonder that media representation of the disabled is limited and largely stereotypical. If the word "disabled" can be represented in such a simple symbol as the one above, we are reducing a large and diverse group of human beings to something less complicated than your average road sign.

While great strides have been made in recent decades in the representation of gender and race, there are still many prejudices attached to the representation of disability.In magazines, the only images of the disabled we tend to see are those in charity advertisement. Often we are encouraged to pity the person represented, or give them support in another way. Ideologically speaking, disabled is not considered sexy, and does not sell stuff.

*Regional identity.

Regional Identity presentation

View more presentations from Tim Andrews.

even thought this presentation is not done by people in my class i think it gives good examples of identity in the uk.

Representation.

Representation.
' the process by which the media presents the 'real world' (Rayner)

key points in the selection process.

-The decision over what is chosen to be represented and what is rejected.
-the choices made when organising the representation.
-The options taken to focus the audience in a certain way.

Questions we would ask when analysing representation
-Who or what is being represented?
-How is the representation created? (mise en scene)
-Who has created the representation?
-Why is the representation created in that way?
-What is the intention?
-What is the effect of representation?

Gatekeeper.
A theorist called White (1961) spoke of 'gatekeepers'- this is the people who are part of the decision making process in the construction of media text.
-Parental control
-Commisioners
-Law makers
-Directors
-Producer
-Editors
All of these are mostly white middle class men.

The construction approach.
1. The representation is constructed with a set of ideas and values (producers intent/intended meanings)
2. context of the representation (Media language choices,anchorage, media form, placement/location, genre expectations etc.)
3. The audience reactions to this representation and this depends on their own personal interpretational context: age, gender, political, religous beliefs, nationality etc.

Richard Dyer- 'the matter of images'

Dyer said: 'how we are seen determines how we are treated, how we are treat others is based on how we see them, how we see them comes from representation.'

Commando, repersentation.

Schwarzenegger in this film is shown in two different ways. one is a manly man and the other a loving father, both of these are exagerated to full extent in this film.

These points that show an extrem version of what an kind of a man is.

- Carrying a tree on his sholder (phallic symbol)

*phallic symbol- objects which represnt/compensate a penis.

other phallic symbols in this opening scene are the big house with three big chimanies also when he is using the chain saw, all of these could show that they are over compensating for things that he lacks.

- There is no expression on his face showing that he is not a caring man and is focused on the job in hand.

- Camera angles- most of the angles that are shown are ones of muscles or on the genital area e.g shost moving from the genital area to then moving to muscle all in one movement not showing his face or any sign of his muscles hurting when carrying a hole tree on his arm.

From one extreme to the other, when the daughter is introduced Schwarzenegger becomes a hole different person, a loving and over protecting farther. Their relationship is not like anyother farther and daughter relationship, it is a relationship that is rediculous and over exagerated, these are the points that show there relationship.

- He treates his daughter well e.g. ice cream (looks like a date)

- when he see's his daughter he puts more clothes on because he has to look more farther like.

- He teachs his daughter to fight and saying that women are weak and may need fighting skills later on in life.

- Theres is a sensitive binary opposite from the strong man at the begining to now feeding a dear.

- He and his daighter are both wearing nutural colours and matching clothes.

- He talks to the dear

- Him and his dauhter are always touching never apart.

- Kisses his daughter twice abit insest.

- Pours drink for her before himself.

- He spends all the day with his duaghter, having fun in the pool at sunset this would be something that a couple would do

- She makes the lunch and is shown as a mother figure.