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.

Research

This opening scene from train spotting gives a clear narrative and is a great way of introducing characters. Our group could use this to may be introduce the different dance styles and the characters that go with each one e.g hip hop, ballet, ballroom. all though this isnt a dance film it has relevance to how we would like to opening our film. I also like the way one character talks about there life and its ups and downs. through out this film there are many interesting shots used e.g the toliet scene. Hopefull me and my group will come up with some interesting way to grab the audiences attention.

Research

the trailer above shows lower and mid shots which we are concidering in using for our film, this is because dancing is focused on feet mainly but also incorpirates different body parts to show the movement of dance. The use of clever editing creates a flashing effect which emphasises the differnt shots in different places.

Research

This trailer is a perfect example of a transition to black, which me may use in our film. we like this because each time and image is shown it could be a different part of the body and is an elegantand smooth way of making the transition it can be fast and sharp to create a more explosive effect. The titles on each blak section will have our names or actors names, maybe also quotes or a line out of a peom to get the understanding about the film.

Shameless :)

In one of the lessons this week we anaylised the use of representation in the Tv series Shameless. We looked at how the characters dress and what it says about their personality and make assumptions about what kind of preson they are.

frank is dressed in a green rain mac, worn out jeans and a casualo dirty t-shirt; this can show him as a dirty man, thats unstable and is generally very uncaring about his apperance. His Hair is greasy, long and untamed agaion giving the impression that he doesnt care about what people say about him.

The sedcond character i am going to write about is Steve; Steve is dressed smart in a suit and shirt which is gives the impression that he is a waelty man another factor to support this is that he has a different cars everytime we see him; we can either take this as him being a thief or a rich man. Steves speach is posh which again focussing on the fact that he is not from the chatsworth estate.