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?

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  

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.

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 

Misfits & Fish Tank

1. Who produced them?

Misfits: Howard Overman, Petra Fried, Murray Ferguson, Kate Crowe 

Fish Tank: Nick Laws, Kees Kasander, Christine Langan, David M. Thomspon

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2. Who directed them?

Misfits:

Fish Tank: Andrea Arnold

3. Who wrote them?

Misfits: Howard Overman, a television writer who has written scripts for a number of other dramas such as Hotel Babylon, New Tricks, New Tricks, Hustle and Merlin. He created the BAFTA award winning Misfits. He also created the police-procedural comedy Vexed.

Fish Tank: Andrea Arnold

4. What was the critical reception for them?

5. How far do they prove/disprove David Buckingham's theory?

1. Are there any cultural or fashion movements taking place in Britain now, that you think would be strong enough to form a 'collective identity'.
The main social groups of today seem to be 'chavs' and 'emos', like the 'mods' and 'rockers', these groups seem to have a great rivalry and don't tend to interact with one another.  We feel these are strong enough to form collective identities, because the stereotypical views of said apposing groups, differ so much from one another that they form very cut off groups or 'cliques', e.g. Fashion, music, attitudes, values and class.
     The characters from the film 'Fish Tank' are a good example of how sections of society- in this case lower class- act in a certain way and have similar interests. An example of 'acting in a certain way' in the film is when she has intercourse with her mothers boyfriend, she feels it is an okay thing to do as this is what she has been lead to believe by the people surrounding her. This is almost an exact opposite when looking at the film 'An Education' as they all are brought up to go to university and to
2. Argue ways that you could relate each theorists arguments to one of our case study texts