Promt Question 2

What has been the impact of the internet in media production?

MOOSIC

Through the internet music has been revolutionized as you can join fan pages and blogs on your favourite artists and through this you can establish connections with other fans. This then links with Benedict Anderson"s theory on 'Imagined Community' as it enables the fans to feel part of a community to which they can identity with. These people will never meet physically however will feel a part of the 'imaginary community'. 

Prompt Question 2

What has been the impact of the internet on media production?

The access to films used to be limited to just going to the cinema. The range of films that were on in that cinema would be vast. Recently you can access and purchase films all over the internet and

Catfish questions

Catfish (2010) 
An American documentary involving a man being filmed by his brother and friend as he develops a relationship with a family on Facebook. The film received an 82% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Time magazine did a full page article in September 2010 saying "as you watch Catfish, squirming in anticipation of the trouble that must lie ahead―why else would this be a movie?―you're likely to think this is the real face of social networking." At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Alison Willmore of IFC described it as a "sad, unusual love story." At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Alison Willmore of IFC described it as a "sad, unusual love story."
 The Metro described Cat Fish as a film entirely based on facebok and were very positive towards the film, calling it an "ultimately compassionate exploration of how social media has warped our sense of identity and ability to form human relationships".


The theory of performativity relates to this through Angela assuming the the persona of someone she aspires to be: a flirty, young, attractive woman. The internet enables her to 'become' this person and live out her fantasy role as it lets you pretend to be anyone you wish. The internet facilitates and encourages performativity  

1. How has the Online Age revolutionised the film industry?

Web 2.0 - The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

Participatory Culture - a culture in which private persons (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producer. The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media.

Peering - is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic; instead, each derives revenue from its own customers.

Digital Natives - A digital native is a young person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technology, and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts.

Democratisation -

We-Think - We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.

Interactivity -

The Long Tail -

Wikinomics - how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration (also called peer production) and open-source technology, such as wikis, to be successful.

Media and the online age - Definitions

Web 2.0 - The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of web 2.0 sites include social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, blogging sites like blogger.com, and hosting services.

Participatory Culture - Participatory culture is a neologism in reference of, but opposite to a Consumer culture — in other words a culture in which the public do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers. The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media.

Peering - Peering is the arrangement of traffic exchange between internet service providers (ISP's). Larger ISPs with their own backbone networks agree to allow traffic from other large ISPs in exchange for traffic on their backbones.

Digital Natives - A digital native is a young person who was born in or during the general introduction of digital technology, and by interacting with this technology at an early age, they stand a greater chance of understanding its concepts.

Democratisation - The action taken by a person or group of people to make something Democratic.


We - Think - Explores how the web is changing are world creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and colaborate, ideas and information.

Interactivity - In computers, interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being (or possibly another live creature) and a computer program. On the World Wide Web, you not only interact with the browser (the Web application program) but also with the pages that the browser brings to you.


The Long Tail - This refers to the statistcal property than a larger share of population rests within the tail of the probability distribution than observed under a 'normal' distribution.

Wikinomics - Explores how some companys in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration and open source techonology to be successful.

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
The collective identity of the future will be likely to be represented in a similar way of today, because there has been a trend followed for many years by adults of the past and today, however it could change due to the fact that in the future youth of today could be the adults and see the youth culture from their prospective.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)
Facebook

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
Adults control the way young people are shown in the public eye for TV, newspapers and film.

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
This theory says that parents control the way children are represented and are hidden from the real world and being oppressed.



What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
BBC switch, showing what young people are really like.



What are the implications of this?
The implications are that people get to see the youth of today in a true light rather than one made up in the media that is used to stereotype young people and make adults be fearful of the youth.


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
The control of how people are represented will be the same as today because there will be no way of younger people taking over all media areas and representing themselves in a good light.

Future Representations

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?





If representations of youth are not decoded as being seective representation, then it could result in creating or perpetuating stereotypes. this could then lead to creating distances between social groups. so adults will become afraid of todays youth, and also reluctant to engage with young people and demonise them instead. it can also create tension within social groups with young people becoming afraid of others.


Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)









Facebook is a big part of the adolescence, today. We express and socialise using this media interface. The issue is, it makes it difficult to socialise outside the world of the internet. youth also use videos and blogs to express creativity, opinion and intelligence.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented

There's plenty been written on how the media portrays politics. But what about the media representation of young people and their involvement in politics. Stovin Hayter is the editor of Children Now magazine. Here he talks about the damage the press is capable of when it comes public perceptions of young people.You could pick up a local newspaper in almost any part of Britain and see articles that use headlines and terms like: "Like a plague, the city seems to be in the grip of lawlessness among the young."- Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...

Buckingham express child innocence as being broken by being exposed to adult realms in the media.

What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?


"Youtube" is a main source



What are the implications of this?


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

The Future of Representation

1. Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?


In the future teenage youth will go on to be represented as demoralized, ill mannered  "louts", as they have been portrayed for the last few years. this counts for both male and female youths, women are increasingly shown to be drunken "ladettes" and as such, seem to be as violent as males. this media portrayal is causing division between social groups and even casting unnecessary fear amongst adults. There is however a growing portion of the media that aims to show youths to be the opposite of this stereotype and are breaking it by showing the good rather than the bad. Hopefully at least the future will become brighter for British youth.


2. Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, Youtube, online worlds)

Facebook and social networking sites have become a diary in the cloud for most teenagers, other sites such as myspace, twitter, and tumblr are increasingly popular and youths are expressing themselves more freely and further afield then before possible. community ranges beyond your neighborhood to the other side of the world and is able to do so at staggering rates. Youtube now has members world wide, and is easily as frequently used as TV due to the ability to tailor what you watch. Music videos, tutorials, rants, advertising and much more media types all under one website and its free....



3. Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

Adults are mostly in control of the production of different media types, however new TV programs are including teenagers into the creation and representation of youths in their programs. For example Skins is a good example of how the producers have incorporated adults and youths to influence a more 'realistic' representation of teenagers. The oldest writer is 46 and the youngest is 18, and so this a gives a wide range of ideas. Also meaning that the average age of writers was 21.

4. What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find? What are the implications of this?
     
There are many examples of how young people are in control of how their collective identity is constructed

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?

the media is currently generalizing British youth into a bad stereotype that people should fear and because of this do.we feel feel that because of this, people will go on to fear the British youth and keep associating them with the bad press they are given by the media. even people within the youth culture who are of the same age have begun to fear the generalized version on British youth but certain texts, like Misfits tries to tackle this by showing a friendlier side to a stereotypical youth. however, as this type of program that shows an understanding of the youth has a target audience of the people of the age that is being generalized, the older generations will continue to fear the youth as there is nothing to contradict their generalized views.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)

the representations of us as a youth are only really shown in television and film which as we have seen are clearly not true representations of ourselves and are are usually from an adults perspective. other than this, we as a youth don't have any easy way of expressing our selves or challenging this stereotypical view that we have been labeled with.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

 as we have seen, it is mostly adult views that are exressed through the media of the British youth. adult views on television of the british youth constantly try and teach the youth a 'lesson' in how to behave or act. they are massivley focused on bringing youth culture back to how it was when they were young as they feel that a stricter up bringing leads to a more acceptable and civilized way of living.

What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
certain sites like youtube and facebook, where people, especially the youth, can represent themselves how they feel the want to be represented are becoming more prominent and wide spread. having said this, we do believe that the main audience for sites like these are the youth themselves so they don't really impact the stereotypes of british youth as much as they probably should. so the implications of this are not very significant at all as it doesn't effect the stereotypical and judgmental view of British youth.

What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

we are beginning to see a slow and slight change in the way that the British youth is represented in the form of Misfits and similar programmes. if this continues and if a similar representation is shown to a wider, more adult audience then it could be that the adult view and the stereotype's could change to a more understanding view of the British youth. this could come with the wider interest within young people to be more involved within the media.

Questions

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
Young people Nowadays have the stereotype of being rather rebellious and destructive. This bad reputation will probably continue to be exaggerated. Old people have said that they have become scared of young people due to the way they are represented in the media.       


Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 
Young people are able to express themselves nowadays in numerous ways, through talking, Art, Music, Social life, facebook, dance, sports, hobbies, personality, by posting youtube videos and blogs etc. Facebook pages tell your friends information that you might not have known otherwise like your relationship status, music tastes, film tastes, interests and hobbies. Teenagers can also express themselves visually by wearing different clothes. For example, by wearing a top that features one of their favourate bands, gigs etc. This is then taken away when teens have to wear uniform, they wear uniform because authority feel that by wearing their own clothes they will live up to the stereotypical teen in the media.


Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
It's the producers who are in control of how the youth of today are portrayed in the media. This therefore means that its adults who make the programs according to how they view childhood. Their representations may not be accurate to the time period as they grew up with different views on young people.  
David Buckingham for example argues that childhood is a social construction is not given or fixed, it is always changing.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
The popular, youth aimed drama 'Skins' was, in a few episodes, written by young people. This laid back, realistic form of production, caused a lot of controversy due to the content of drugs, violence, sex and swearing.  
What are the implications of this?




What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
Through the internet and sites like Youtube and sites like Facebook, or whatever the next social networking site will be!

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, Youtube, online worlds)
The representations of youth are seen in most media forms, e.g. T.V, Newspapers, Film and the internet. The news represents youth as being violent, hoodie wearing people who would sooner stab you or mug you rather than acknowledge you. Most of today's youth uses the internet as a way of expressing themselves, this happens in a variety of ways from Facebook to Youtube.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
The media is the one who are in control of how most people view young people.

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
Buckingham's theory helps this by showing that children's personality and opinions can be warped by viewing things within the "Adult realm" earlier than they would be able to understand properly. An example of this could be the watching of films that are age certificated much higher than the child's age.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find? What are the implications of this?
Youth on the internet use sites like Youtube to host their own video blogs, in this they can get their views on current situations, or what they found funny this week. This allows youth to do this without adult intrusion giving an uncensored or modified version of what they are really like. (usually, as some people have an online persona)


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
Adults will always be in charge of the media, therefore the views of youth culture will always be seen throughthe eyes of people who have a "Rose tinted" view of their own youth and will see younger generations as being more violent/troublesome than their own.

The future of representation

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?

As the media expands and develops this creates a ball of power which the media has control of. This is evident in today's current issue of youths being anti-social and feral. As the media develops it gives them the opportunity to change public opinion and influence our collective identity. However as the media expands there are likely to be more views expressed which are contradicting, this may cause civil war.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 

There are many representations through out the media and the society. This is from TV, radio and film. One of the main representations that we give ourselves comes from the internet. This is mainly from social networking sites such as facebook, myspace and bebo. Also from othersites such as youtube we also create representations.

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
 
Adults.

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
 
Buckingham said that because the adults have control over the media and how young people are represented the views they portray are not always true.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?

Skins series 3-5 was written by young writers. Young people also control what they put on their facebook and youtube accounts.

What are the implications of this?

The implications of this is good and bad, it gives the chance for the youths to say what they are actually like, but it can also be bad as youths could over exagurate what it is actually like, for example skins.


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

Questions task

Question 1:  In the future collective identity will change as past tv programs have shown us that they have changed significantly and are likely to follow a similar trend.  Recently the tv shows have become more frequently written or influenced more heavily by young people of the age group of which the show is targeting. This is a more true representation however will never be true as the shows will always be made more dramatic and over exaggerated in order to appeal to a wider audience.

Question 2 Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) I personally choose to represent myself on facebook and twitter. i feel these are the best places to represent myself as they are considered the most viewed for people my age. This is the best place to represent yourself as many people are on facebook and twitter so a mass audience will be able to see how you choose to represent yourself.


question 3 :Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...

Questions- Collective Identity 09/03/11

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
The representation of teenage youth will go on to demonise this collective identity through the use of negative and unrealistic interpretations of their behaviours. This in turn will continue to have the same effect on the audiences, intimidating both older and even youth of the same age presented, making them "afraid" of teenage youth, through the misleading representations provided by the mass media.

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 
We represent ourselves through social networking internet sites, such as facebook, and youtube. Facebook is limited in the way that the site is formatted, as you can only display certain information about yourself and create status'. This is safer. Youtube is a little more dangerous as you can upload videos of yourself for anyone to watch and comment on, depending on your security level on the site, which can restrict who sees them. The videos can be used to share your experiences with family from the other side of the world. Media synergy is created through sharing youtube videos on facebook.
Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

It is adults who create these programmes in which teenagers are represented badly and bias as the adults are over exaggerating the situations that the teenagers are put in ,and their reactions and behaviour to these situations creating the overall unruly attitude of teenagers, and as a result has teenagers acting up to these scenarios, generating fear across both adult, and further teen audiences. 

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further... 
David Buckingham's the death of childhood With teens viewing these representations and acting up to the bad behaviours to that of the characters, we can see the theory of David Buckingham coming into play. Teenagers acting up to these "dehumanised" characters is ruining their innocence, and adding to the death of childhood, with adults allowing younger and younger children to watch such programmes of over exaggerated representations. 

What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
What are the implications of this?Young people are in control of the way their collective identity is represented through social networking sites as they are in control of what they write on the internet, making vulgar comments on status' and "liking" derogatory facebook groups. Arguments are blown out of all proportion on facebook, with comments being read with the wrong context, making an ordinary comment, sound nasty through a misinterpretation.

What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
Teenagers now, who are misinterpreted and dehumanised will later on be the ones in charge of representations of teenagers in the future. It is up to them how they will represent teens later on, however the unruly teen makes for big  viewing numbers, and they may feel that they as teenagers were misconstrued badly, so why not the next generation? 

The future of representation

http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/what-are-the-social-implications-of-different

Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?

Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)

Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?

Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...



What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?

What are the implications of this?


What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?

Judith Butler and Performativity

This is an excellent resource to further understand Judith Butler's work.
http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm
An interview with Judith Butler where she discusses her book 'Gender Trouble'.
http://www.theory.org.uk/but-int1.htm

Althusser and Interprellation

Althusser and Interpellation
http://changingminds.org/explanations/critical_theory/concepts/interpellation.htm
This link contains the year that the theory was first written about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpellation_(philosophy)

Stuart Hall, Reception Theory and Representation

This is a link to an excellent resource that discusses the effect model and the many associated theories, including the reception theory
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=audience

Below is an excellent lecture from Stuart Hall himself on representation. Well worth a look.

David Gauntlett and the Construction of Identity

These links give additional information and readings about David Gauntlett's theories on the construction of identity.
http://www.theoryhead.com/gender/extract.htm
This is David Gauntlett's own website
http://www.theory.org.uk/
This link takes you to an article where David Gauntlett picks apart the 'Effects Model' theory. Well worth reading.
http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm

Video about David Gauntlett's theory on how identity is represented.

David Buckingham - After the Death of Childhood

This link is to some additional reading on David Buckingham
http://www.slideshare.net/spingwoodmedia/david-buckingham

Emile Durkheim and Collective Consciousness

Follow these links for some additional reading on Durkheim's theory.
The wikipedia link has the year in which the theory was first published.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness
http://www.sociologyguide.com/thinkers/Durkheim.php
http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/collectiveconsciousness.htm

Theory link

http://p1criticalperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/01/lesson-10-tasks.html

This link will take you to the powerpoint on collective identity theory.

Collective Identity Essay Plans

Please also find below the link to Pete's Media Blog.

http://petesmediablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/media-and-collective-identity.html

Here is a link to some theory relevant to Collective Identity

http://p1criticalperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/01/lesson-10-tasks.html 

"Media representations are complex, not simple and straightforward" How far do you agree with this statement in relation to the collective group that you have studied?

The representation of British people has changed throughout the years, making the stereotype of British people constantly changing meaning and representation  making it much more complex.

i feel that the medias representation of certain things can be complex but usualy have a simple underlying meaning or idea. when it comes down to it, the youth in St Trinians are all represented as a collective group and are represented as such. having said this though, it deals with complex themes or rebelion while at the same time equaly exploring team work and a sense of coming together to overcome a wider problem.

representations, however, can also be very simple and can change over time along with the ideas and views of certain periods in time. this is best seen in the contrasts and similarities between St Trinians and Misfits. both groups of people are represented in a way that is seen fittin gof the time and from looking atr both we can see a clear difference between the two.

With reference to any one group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has been mediated.

One area of british identity that we have studied is british youth. We have researched into various examples in films to enforce our opinions of how this collective identity is mediated. These include examples in, An education, Fish tank, St. trinians and Misfits. However we have also looked at theorists that relate the impacts of media on different identities. some of these theorists back up our idea of how British youth has been mediated. For example, Althhusse  believes the the power of the mass media resides in their abilities to place a subject in a way that their representations are taken to be reality. Also another theorist Marcuse, believe

"The media do not construct collective identity; they merely reflect" Discuss

I do not agree with this statement as a collective identity is a sense of belonging to a group  as they all have a certain aspect of their life which links them all together. The media is often responsible for the way in which people outside the group portray these people and are often not very accurate to the true life of these collective group. The media also helps to create each group and shape the ways in which they behave.  The media helps create collective identity although it is naturally occurring because of age and gender.

Essay question practice

What is collective identity and how is it mediated?

By definition, collective identity is an individuals sense of belonging to a group (part of a personal identity). These representations can dramatically alter peoples views on specific groups in society. Althusser spoke about the power of mass media and how that changes our own views on youth culture. In the film St Trinians, the writers represent youth as an unruley bunch of rebellious teens who set fire to their school. This disrespectful bahaviour reflects badly on how youths were viewed in that time. A more contomporary example of this is seen in Channel 4s series 'Misfits' where 5 young characters are taking part in community service which instantly reveals the troubled nature of the younger generation. From these examples we see that views on young people have stayed relitavely the same, both portraying.... Although in St Trinians, the younger characters are shown as heros in saving the school but in Misfits they are seen as


http://petesmediablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/media-and-collective-identity.html  

Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied?

Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied?

Intro - The term groups of people is also known as collective identity. This is a a section of people who relate in some way so they can be recognised as a group. These features include: gender, age, social class and political views. The group we have studied in detail is teenagers in Britain. We have examples of this throughout time including St Trinians, Passport to Pimlico, An Education, A Summer of Love, Fish Tank, Coronation Street, Misfits, Ashes to Ashes and Minder.

What is collective identity and how is it mediated?

what is collective identity and how is it mediated?

Collective identity is the individuals sense of belonging to a group. Collective identity is used within media to stereotype these groups, making them relatable and easily identifiable to the viewing public. An example of this stereotyping can be seen in misfits, whereby the use of mise en scene is used in costuming where they are all seen in the same community uniform, however all have changed theirs slightly to highlight their  individual personalities, and therefore their collective group and clique. Eg one of the girls wears her uniform unbuttoned to display her cleavage and pulls up the bottom of her uniform to show off her legs, whereas the other girl can be seen in trainers, scraping her hair back. These changes show the girls are in two different cliques, one being in a promiscuous group, and the other belonging to a "chavy" clique.
Ting Toomey

micro element detail in 'my summer of love'

Extract 1
Camera work:
POV shots
Long shot portrays loneliness in her bedroom

Editing:


Sound:
Begins with echoey nostalgic music becomes louder as scene becomes more intense

Mise en scene:
props-contrasts between plain mona and exotic Tammy. On motorbike and white horse
Clothing- Tammy looks very glamorous and beautiful with her bright feminine clothing whilst mona looks very scruffy (messy hair, cheap clothes). Tammy has a posh accent and lives in a grand house whereas mona lives in a run down pub with a Northern accent. Horse and motor bike on different levels, showing different class'

Extract 2
Camera work:
POV shots in taxi, hand held to give of being there

Sound:
Blow torch, dangerous, indicating the brother could be dangerous.

Mise en scene:



Red dress indicates older and sexy
Pink hoodie- immature and childlike.

"my summer of love" analysis

Clip 1 - The two girls meet and immediately you can tell there is a difference in class between them due to the way they talk and the way they are dressed, also the different means of travel between them, one on a big white horse and the other on a motorbike with no motor. Mona is smoking at the beginning of the clip which could indicate that she wants to be older than she is. There are close ups of Mona and the horses eyes, this could signify that she is the same level as the horse and not worthy of making eye contact with the girl on the horse.

Clip 3 - shows a lot about how strong the local religious group if for the place that they live. It shows a good sense of traditional community however it is not a contemporary way to meet. The youth are situated on the outskirts of the community. this shows they're sceptical about the believers.

Clip 4 - Mona having to give her top back shows that she was once on par with the other girl but has again been degraded to how they were when they first met. 1

My Summer of Love

Extract one
-When Mona and Tamsin first meet there is a shot reverse shot between the characters. There is no dialogue during this shot, which was drawn out with soothing music which set a romantic tone.
-As they leave together you can clearly see a difference in class, with Tamsin moving gracefully on a horse and Mona hunched with her legs up on her broken motorcycle.
-In regards to costume there is a strong contrast with Mona sporting a pink tracksuit with her hair placed highly atop her head and Tamsin looking relatively cleaner and fresh in appearance with her hair in waves and more casual attire.


Extract three
-The christians are dressed brightly and respectfully with the raising of the cross whereas Tamsin and Mona are dressed casually. Tamsin is dressed more so like Mona showing their growing relationship.   These people are of a variety of ages and all show praise to Mona's brother. As they do this there is a reaction shot of Mona looking disgusted, whereas tamsin seems intrigued.

Extract four
-Tamsin's parents are shown in this extract for the first time, and we are immediately shown the effect that they have on her. In the extract her mother is shown packing her bags, dominating the scene as she is sat, neatly wearing her school uniform with her hair straighter and neater.


There needs to be continued regulation of both public and commercial providers in order to ensure a range of material is provided.

media causing the death of childhood by allowing active rights to participation - morality, commerce, citizenship.

My Summer of Love

Representation of young British women

Clip 1 - The representaion of women is very contrasting within the first scene. We see two different women within the first scene and it is obvious that they are from very different social class. This is obvious firstly through the camera. When we meet Tamsin we are shown her through a low angle shot, and when we see Mona we see her through a high angle shot. This makes us look up to Tamsin and down on Mona. It is also obvious through mise-en-scene. Tamsin owns a horse and Mona has a old Honda motorbike, that does not have an engine. You can also see it through the costumes. Tasmin is wearing respectable clothes where as Mona is wearing quite childish clothes. There is one thing that links the two characters together and this comes through sound. As we watch the film through it becomes apparent that them feel alone, this is represented through the sound as it is diagetic sound of the countryside which is often used to represent being alone. When we first see Tamsin the camera is upside down, this connotes that she maybe in a "different reality" and that there is something fictional about her.

Clip 3 - Within this scene the two girls seem to be represented fairly equaly.

My Summer Of Love

Extract 1
Red pencil and border show her love for the person in the portrait.
Tamsin is wearing a red dress and headband. Horse is powerful but the bike is weak and rusty.
Red is also the colour of warnings showing that Tamsin is a danger to Mona.
Red is associated with sin, guilt, pain, passion, blood, and anger.

Extract 3
Cleansing the valley of evil, like Tamsin and Mona fighting her demons. around a 1/4 people are wearing red, and when Tamsin meets Phil she is wearing

Extract 4

My summer of love

Clip 1: The lighting in the scene is natural as they are outside for all of the clip.
the horse which tamsin is riding demonstrates her wealth in contrast to mona's bike without an engine. showing the difference in their background and the way that they were brought up and luxuries which children that are brought up in a wealthy family have compared to a less affluent family. The is a distinct difference in the clothing that the two girls are wearing, Tamsin's clothes are well fitted and appear to be well made and it seems that she takes more interest in her appearance than Mona. The location of Tamsin's house shows that the family is wealthy as they have a lot of land and a large house further showing Tamsins wealth over Mona.

Planning an essay

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods?


brainstorming...

• stereotyping young people as rebellious and try to go against what higher authority think is right. 
• At that point in their lives they are trying to find out who they are as individuals and they don't like it when people tell them who to be or how to behave? < genetics
• Representation from an older time period (St. Trinians) less aggressive to elder people that are trying to help them but will break rules to people who are clearly in the wrong e.g. the arabs. when compared to a more contemporary example (my summer of love) the girls smash the window of their fathers car and someone whom hasn't done anything wrong.
• St. Trinians the elder teens wear more seductive clothing which contrasts with their childish, rebellious behavior. Same as in my summer of love, the girl wears a small red dress which connotes passion and romance, this also contrasts with their childish behavior when smashing the window.
• An Education - The perfume bottle has a big significance to the scene because it sparks the argument. The tennis ball kind of editing with the shot-reverse-shot when arguing shows the teenage girls rebellion and confidence to stand up to someone with such higher authority than herself (teacher).
• The cigarettes in Summer are quite iconic 

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods ? (planning the esaay)

To answer this question we had to look at modern films and films that were made in the past. We looked at contemporary material : 'An Education' (2009) and 'My Summer of love' (2004) and for the film from another time period was 'St. Trinnians' (1950's)

The Introduction :
In this introduction we decided to write about

Essay Plan

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods?

PLAN-->
INTRODUCTION

PARAGRAPH 1
St. Trinians- Representation of females (rebellion) Scene example including micro elements to back up point.
Example- Shot of women dressed the same to show a united front as they attack men.

PARAGRAPH 2
My summer of love- Representation of girls nowadays - still rebellion. Scene example with micro elements to back up and how they differ or match the way women are represented.  Include point about Judith Butler and her theory on performability.

Plan for contemporary representation question.

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods?



Intro: List common representations of youth, for both time periods.

Para 1: My summer of love, contemporary, list micro elements, and how they relate to the representations of youth. Use 1 ideaolgy.

Para 2: An education, Contemporary representation of an previous representation. list micro elements, and how they relate to the representations of youth. Use 1 different or the same idealogy.

Para 3: St. Trinians, older generation, list micro elements, and how they relate to the representations of youth. use 1 different or the same idealogy.

Para 4: Comparing and contrasting the above representations, ideology's and summarise.

Britain in the 1970s and 2009.
The political situation:
1970 - Political and Social unrest which lead to the 'decade of strikes.' These involved, unions such as the postal and miners, who took the biggest action in these strikes and protests.
Conservatives were in power in from 1970 - 1974 then Labour took over from 1940 - 1979.
In Margaret Thatcher in 1979, became the first female UK Priminister.

2009 - Labour were in power

Immigration policy and situation:
1970s - There was restricted immigration in Britain, however 83000 immigrants came through the boarders and obtained living and working visa's.
In 1972, the biggest influx of African Asains came through and settled in Britain. 80000 of them were sent here by their leader Idi Amin. This resulted in a peak of 28000 in two months.

2009 - 160,980 British citizen applications were processed and accepted.
 
Unemployment:
1970s -Unemployment was relative and range from 1.3 to 1.5 million over the decade. It peaked in 1979 when it was at its highest, however compared to other figures this was still relatively low.

Crime:
1970s - Crime dropped by 41% in 1979.

2009 - Offensives dropped to 10.1 million and gun crime was down to only 6%. 1/3 of all crimes recorded were theft or handling stolen goods.

Misfits:
All the young characters are wearing orange boiler suits, which shows their unity. This also identifies them as criminals. All of the characters put their own style to the boiler suit, this shows diversity within a collective. There are close ups of all the characters, this allows the audience to identify with each of them. The editing is fast paced, with quick cuts in between short duration shots. This could show that the group is disorganised.

Analysis of Misfits and Minder.

Minder

The different ethnicitys are represented differently in this clip. The Black people are seen to be villans and the white people are seen to be vunerable. 

The black people are using their culture to represent them as their focus. The use of the gun implements violence which reflects what the white people have been in the past towards these minorties because of their differences.

Misfits

In misfits they all wear the same costume which represents how they are a collective identity of a convict. However, there is also diversity in the way they dress: the girl promotes her sexuality; and the athlete 'shows off' his physique. The hat that the boy wears makes him look like a 'bad boy'

Misfits is the 2009 representation of modern day Britain, due to the rising crime rates of the year, most involving youth as in increased knife crime, and 20,000 young people being electronically tagged this year. Due to the increase in unemployment there is usually an increase in crime that follows, Misfits main focus is young people and crime and most of the youths in the show are unemployed.  The diversity in the group shows how none of them get along and all feel very different to each other.
Mise en scene
The costume of the community service costume is simmilar to the prison outfits people wear when in prison, this is stereotypical prison outfits and shows the current situation with crime rates.
Sound
At the very end of the clip Gary while being held back by the probation worker makes a shooting motion to imtimidate Nathan, when this happens 2 gunshot noises this has a reference to the growing crime in the country at this time.
Cinematography
There is a wide shot showing the whole group this shows the social diversity in Britatin of the time, as there seems to be one person from each group. And each has a different personality and style which represents their group. There is also a lot of voyerism on the female characters, for example the first shot is of Alisha in just her bra. This uses the same style as in Fish Tank where the girls are wearing skimpy outfits and are treated more like sexual objects.

1970's and 2009 analysis.

Political situation in 1970's


Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party rise to power in the United Kingdom in 1979, initiating a neoliberal economic policy of reducing government spending, weakening the power of trade unions, and promoting economic and trade liberalization.


Unemployment figures figures in 1970's


There were angry demonstrations in the House of Commons when the jobless total was confirmed as 1,023,583.


Crime rates in 1970's


In 1991, 5.3 million crimes (excluding criminal damage under pounds 20) were recorded by the police. This compares with 4.4 million crimes in 1990 and 1.6 million in 1970. There has been an upward trend in recorded crime rates since the 1950s.


Immigration situation in 1970's



The government had greatly restricted immigration by the 1970s, but had not stopped it altogether. Some 83,000 immigrants from the Commonwealth settled in the UK between 1968 and 1975, largely through gaining work permits or obtaining permission to join relatives.
The most significant immigration of the decade came in 1972 when the Ugandan dictator General Idi Amin expelled 80,000 African Asians from the country, families who had been encouraged to settle there during the days of Empire. Many held British passports and, amid a major crisis, the UK admitted 28,000 in two months.

Political situation in 2009

in 2008 this was predicated for 2009;

"The UK economy is currently in an official recession. In 2009, the UK economy is predicted to stay in recession, hopefully recovering in the last 2 quarters"


Immigration situations in 2009:




Write up a few paragraphs on the social and political context for Minder (1970's) and Misfits (2009).
 In Minder there are two social groups presented; One middle class group, who are being held hostage by the another social group, who are involved in criminal activity. The clip shows a middle class male being politically incorrect, as he calls the black criminals 'Spades', then black criminals then respond by calling the man a 'whitey', both intended to be derogatory terms. 


The criminals in question are performing an act of robbery, which in the 1970's was a crime which had raised to more than a million and was a serious problem within society. This also highlights the unemployment level of the era, with people turning to crime at the lack of jobs available.


In Misfits, the young offenders attending their community service all represent the different social groups of this era. Although together they have collective identity of a bad reputation because of their criminal nature. There are black, white, promiscuous, working class and people with a higher social standing. All are seen to be united, as a contrast to Minder where there seems to be a segregation between the white and black races. 




Analyse the two clips (minder and misfits) and discuss how diversity within a collective is represented.


In Minder, diversity is represented through the elements of camera work, and mise en scene. For instance, the white people (victims) were in the background on the floor, whilst the criminals were in the foreground standing, dominating the scene. When conversing, the black man is looking down at the white victim, who talks back up at him, placing him in a position of power. this is shown through a shot reverse shot. The black men are dressed casually, with one stereotypically wearing a rastafarian hat. the white people however, are wearing shirts, highlighting the fact that they are in a position of employment, where as the black people have had to turn to crime due to the unemployment situation in the 70's.


In misfits, the representation of the collective is shown differently to that of Minder, this is because all are of different races, but are represented as criminals in their own ways where as in minder the criminals were all of one race. the difference of social groups is highlighted through the use of mise en scene as although all of them are wearing the same jumpsuit, all have made it their own. For example the promiscuous girl has her cleavage on show, previously famous role model sportsman has his half down, as if he is better than the other boys. The working class girl is seen through a close up scraping her hair back with loads of chains on showing that her social group outside of community service is that of a "chavy" nature. All are different, yet all are criminals, highlighting the united front of the youth within the current criminal situation.

Reasearch: 1970s and 2009

In 1970s Britain, political awareness increased resulting in the economic liberation of women and the beginning of environmental movement with the hippie culture in full flow from the latter half of the 1960s. In the late 1970s Thatcherism began with the Conservative Party coming into power, Margaret Thatcher being the first ever female Priminister in Britain.   

Immigration was greatly restricted by the government in the 1970s, but had not stopped all together. Over 80,000 immigrants settled in the UK; mainly through gaining work permits or obtaining persmission to join relatives.  

Rising oil prices caused stagflation and unemployment began to rise but was still relatively low. In 1972 The number of people unemployed and out of work and claiming benefit had risen above one million for the first time since the 1930s. To be exact, the figure was 1,023,583. 

In the 1960s and 70s, crime rates began to rise dramatically with offenses such as burglary and car thefts peaking in the early 1990s. 

In 2009 the total number of people that arrived to live in the UK was 567,000. Meaning the popuation increased by 196,000 after 371,000 people had left the country. 

In 2009, unemployment dropped to the lowest it has ever been for 14 years; making the total number of unemployed 2.47 million. 

The clip from Minder portrays an exaggerated view of the crime situation in Britain at that time. The fact that they have chosen black people to play the criminals reveals the racial inequality present in the 1970s. They have depicted Black people as a very agressive section of society. Opptunities for black people at the time were rather unequal hence the reason they were forced to act so irrationally and desperately. However the way in which they put this across in the program displays prejudice. 

The way in which the characters act in Misfits corresponds with the huge surge of crime at the time it was made. especially in the area it was filmed.  

Unemployment rates:

1970 - Total jobless = 1,023,583

2009 - Total jobless =2.5 million

Crime rates:

1970 - 

2009 - 4.4 million

Political Situation:

1970 - Conservatives were in power.
               "The Tory Party consists of an upper class leadership seeking to implement capitalist policies with a middle class voting base reinforced by large numbers of backward workers."

2009 - Labour were in power.

Misfits, gives us the idea that crime rates are higher in modern day life. especially in rural areas, such as the location for the series. we get this impression because all of the characters are taking part in community service. The diversity between the characters gender and race implies that the group are part of a collective identity. The mix in characters from nationality, race, gender and ethnicity shows the diversity (I'm pretty smart but not as smart as usual)

Minder on the other hand gives us a negative perception on race and gender. This is because of the political climate at the time, which had a poor impression on black people. This clip represents black people in the 1970's. It shows that black people were dangerous and troublesome.

The diversity within the collective in Minder represents the clean contrast between the white hostages and the black terrorists.

Minder

during the 1970's immigration, unemployment and crime rates were all fairly key issues. Idi Amin expelled 80,000 African Asians from their contries and were encouraged to settle in the uk. this would explain the fact that during the clip, the men are keen to return to ethiopia. as well as this the fact that they're actually robbing the store is backed up by the fact that there was unemplyoment and the great depression was taking place. it could be seen that this is mainly responsible for the rise in crime figures. the clip backs this up by showing the need to rob a shop due to lack of money and harder times.

Margret Thatcher coming into power promoted economic and trade liberalization aswell as weakening the power of the trade unions. this fact also explains more of the clips background and allows us to understand more about why the clip shows what it does. aswell as this, the episode is dealing with something that was obviously of at least some importance at the time and this would not be brought to the attention of the creator if it had not been going on. it also reinforces the background of the episode.

the camera angles during the clip shows the robber on the left with the gun in a much more powerful light than any others. firstly, he's on the left which is the most powerful position. as well as this all angles on the man are low angled shots which make him seem much more powerful. on top of this all the other characters are show in high angled shots which shows the dominance over all of them, even the people helping him. the colour and style of the mans hat shows his loyalty to what the audience assumes is his own country. racial tention is shown when the man on the phone refers to the black men as "three spades". this shows the racial tention of the time. diversity within the three is shown mostly by the power differencial and shown most in the willingness to go to ethiopia. throughout the whole scene the man with the gun is constantly shown as the leader of the three. this is shown in many ways for example his voice, the way he stands, his physical appearance and the fact that he's holding a gun. the other two speak softer and with higher pitched voices and show their weaknesses much more.

from looking at both this clip and the one of Misfits, we can see that representations have definately changed and the way that people are represented on screen has definately changed dramatically. i do belive that this is partically to do with events and the way that people are viewed in modern times and how they differ from the seventies.

1970s vs 2009

1970s
Employment - in the 1970s there was mass unemployment reaching one of the highest rates on record.
Political situation - There was a conservative government lead by Margaret Thatcher it was named the decade of strikes.
Immigration policy and Situation - 1972 people could only settle with a work permit, which only allowed white nationals in foreign countries to live in the UK whereas other nationalities were not allowed. The country faced the problem of a split society.
Crime rates - was at its highest

2009
Unemployment - was at its highest from 2008 to 2010
Political situation - The welfare state has grown dramatically which has allowed more people to live of benefits and to not work at all. The new liberal conservative coalition have to tackle the countries deficit which means higher taxes and lower public spending which has increased unemployment
Immigration -  More controlled and fair now with people being able to come into to country from the EU to seek a better life
Crime - youths and ASBOs etc

Minder and Misfits - 
in Minder diversity within a collective group becomes apparent with the three black men who are referred to as "spades". One, who is clearly the leader, wants to escape and go to ethiopia whilst the other two want to stay in britain. There is clearly racism around at this time as Arthur Daly expresses on the telephone "how could you let yourself" be captured by these three "spades". This shows a social divide between white and black. The white people at the end are sitting on the floor all in pain or overheating. This shows an almost role reversal between white and black as if the black people are fighting back. In minder they are all middle aged men and the crime had come from black people. Crime in the 19702 was more associated with older and black people which contrasts largely with Misfits as all the criminals about to start their community service are what we'd call "youths".  In Misfits there is a clear difference between all the people in the group. This shows all diversity within the collective group of being British. There is no racism in Misfits even though there are ethnic members in the group which shows how far society has come. 2

Analysis of Minder and Misfits clip

Minder and Misfits social and political context


Analyse the two clips from (Minder and Misfits) and discuss how diversity within a collective is represented..
In minder the two different ethnic backgrounds are on the opposite side of the law in this clip. The minority of the black people are represented as criminals, they are represented as a lower class as they have tattier clothes in comparison to those of the white people. The white characters are all considered as being on the right side of the law and are hostages in the hold up of a launderette. In misfits however the group consists of many different ethnic minorities and are all portrayed as criminals, although the are different backgrounds there are still small things which unite these characters in the fact they are all young and are all portrayed in the same costume. This also differs from the minder clip as it shows the innocent person as a black person who in the minder clip would have been portrayed as an ethnic minority.

The social and political contexts of Minder (1970) and Misfits (2009)

Minder 1970's - The UK was under a conservative government from 1970. This had come as a shock to the Labour Party, however people were more interested in the world cup.  Heath was the prime minister. In the 1970's immigration was highly restricted, but it had not stopped. In 1972 the UK admitted 28,000 immigrants from Uganda. Unemployment rate were at 1.02 million in 1972, and crime rates were at 1.6 million, dispite the increase of the police since the 1950's.

Misfits 2009 - The Labour party was now in power, with the prime minister Gordon Brown. There were 196,000 immigrants. 2.03 million people were unemployed which was almost double the amount in the 1970's. There was about 1,445,000 crimes in 2009.


Scene Analysis

Within minder there are two different views on diversity. One is that there is a significant difference between the two groups of people in the room. The white people within the room are all on the floor and take up half of the frame, where as there are 3 black people two of them are standing up and they take up most of the frame. This shows us that they have the power within the siutation. There is one black person on the floor and when we are show his face it is from a high angle shot. This could show us that there is a certain element of diversity about the situation. Through sound we are shown a certain racist element. The words "Spades" and "Whitey's" are used. This tells us that there is not diversity.

Within misfits all of the characters are equal. There is no "Good" or "bad", we believe this could cause tension within the group. To help show that there is equality between them, they are all given equal camera time. The majority of the shots within the sequence are close ups of each of the characters. All of the characters do not get along and that is due to different things. You can see this through the dialogue. One of the characters never speaks, one of them claims that he should not be there, and another makes fun of another due too the way she speaks. The teenagers are all stood next to each other at one point in their orange jumpsuits which unifies them by their appearance but then the close ups of each characters face shows they are unique and choose to appear in different ways.

We believe that representations have changed over time. It is less obvious who has the power in situations. Within Minder, it is obvious, whereas in misfits it is not. Within the two shows there is a difference within the opinion who commits the crime. Within Minder there is no select age group, where as in Misfits, they all appear too be teenagers, and within Minder there seems to be a racial comment on who commits crime but in misfits, there is not. Therefore the divide in the groups has changed from ethnic to age.