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.

"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.

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.

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.

misfits and fishtank

1. Who produced them?
Misfits: Clerkenwell Films.
Fishtank:BBC Films

2. Who directed them?
Misfits:Tom Green (First ep)
Fishtank: Andrea Arnold

3. Who wrote them?
Misfits:Howard Overman
Fishtank: Andrea Arnold

4. What was the critical reception for them?
Misfits: IMDB critic review: 9.1 & Best drama series
Fishtank:IMDB critic review: 7.8, Jury Prize & Best British film 2010

5. How far do they prove/disprove David Buckingham's theory?
Misfits: The representation of youth is all out to cause trouble, and have no respect for adults or authority
Fishtank:

Media and collective Identity

1. Is there a particular fashion or music movement at the moment that you think could be labelled a collective identity? If so then you must be able to justify it using some of the theories you have learnt.

we feel that stylistic and musical movements have been more prominent in the past for example, during the mid 1960's there were mods, rockers and hippies who all followed very particular fashion and music movements. these 'movements' do still exist but definitely not on the same scale that they did. we feel that modern day style and musical movements are less obvious and definitely don't have anywhere near the same mass following that they did have. However, having said this, there are still different styles that have emerged in the modern day for example chavs, emos and

2. Discuss the ways in which you could apply at least two of the theories to the film/tv examples  you have seen over the last few weeks. Include detailed reference to key examples from the films/programmes. 

'Ashes to Ashes' represents the theory of Ting Toomey, which is identity negotiation, they represent the police force as very brutish and manly, and most of them don't have their own identity, so to speak of. TBC

What is the Representation of Britain in the 1980s?

Britain in the 1980s is shown to be quite a sexist country at the time, this is shown in the show "Ashes to Ashes" where Gene Hunt not only treats the main character with the attitude that he is better than her and that she is just an object, as she wakes up in the 1980s dressed as a prostitute. The ountry also appears patriotic as in the beginning there is a picture of the queen in a frame and in the ending sequnce ti shows them celebrating prince Charles is marrying Diana.

An Education

1. What kind of Britain is represented? How does it compare to the Britain represented in Passport to Pimlico?


Even though the two films are set 20 years apart, the views of both differ in several ways. Passport to Pimlico is a very classical and stereotypical view of Britain and a British way of life. However, the views on Britain within An Education i feel are still very stereotypical outside views of Britain. i think the main difference between the two films are the period in which they are set and how the views within the film have changed. Passport to Pimlico shows a much more 'stiff upper lip' feel through out the film with a real feeling of coming together to defeat something which seems very fitting to the time which is was made and set being just after the war. this is something that is not so much shown in An Eduction as it shows a slightly more corrupt British attitude. having said this, i do believe that both films share a similar view on women in Britain and the hierarchy of men within British culture.



2. Describe the character of Jenny? How far do you think she is a typical British teenager? What might be different about her, if anything?

Jenny is shown in many different lights throughout the film which change as the story progresses. She is a typical teenage girl of that time in the beginning of the film as it is quite clearly established very early on that she is very much governed by her father, much to her despair. however, as the story progresses, she begins to become much more rebellious and begins to constantly question and poke holes in her fathers judgment and way of thinking. the audience also gets a strong feeling that she begins to resent her father and wants to do the opposite of what he is making her do. i feel that this feeling, being shown so early on gives the audience a glance at what's to come as equally wants her to rebel. So i believe that Jenny's character in the film is stereotypical of a typical british teenager of her time but then goes against this by rebeling against her father.




3. What impression does the film give of Britain if you are a woman? Describe Helen, Jenny's Mother, Jenny's teacher and Jenny in terms of representations of women.

throughout the whole film, there is a clear differential between men and women which shows a definate highrachy in the men of the film. Firstly this is shown in the relationship between Jenny, her Mother and her father. it is quite clearly established very early on that Jenny's father, Alfred has a very strong control on both the female characters within his household which was very much the case at this time. Equally, both David and Danny are shown to have alot of control over Jenny and Helen. even though Jenny has rebeled against her fathers views of this obvious highrachy between men and women, she completely gives her self to David which i feel reinforces the view greatly. this differential in power is most obviously seen in the scene where David and Danny steal the map. The way that Danny tells Jenny to stay in the car and says that he "willl not tell her again" shows the power that he has over her. It also reminds the audience of how old Jenny is as this is what an adult would say to a misbehaving child. as well as this, the fact that she then does it shows the power in what her says and the power that he has. on top of this, Helen who is still in the car, already knows the 'rules' of this and knows not to get involved.
Infact i feel that the only woman who is established with any power is Jennys head teacher who shows a clear power over Jenny.




4. What representation of British women do they give and can you think of any contemporary examples of similar women in film?




5. Conduct some research into the film, who made it, how was it funded, who directed it?

 The film was based on the memoirs of a british journalist named Lynn Barber and was directed by Lone Scherfig who is a danish film director. the film cost $7.5 million to make and grossed $24,406,761. the film was initialy premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival where is gained critical acclaim. it was then shown at the Toronto Internation Film Festival, the Telluride by the Sea Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. it was released in October 2009.

1. In groups discuss what your understanding of the term 'collective identity' is. Blog a summary of your discussions.

This is what a group of people would determine themselves and their believes, and how they represent themselves to others. It is almost like the opposite of a stereotype as this is what others would label you, but this is more what the person would label themselves.

2. Then discuss what you understand 'Britishness' to mean? What does being British mean to you? Blog a summary of your discussion.

To be British is to be patriotic which is very obvious in this film. The view of Britishness from modern day British people is very different from in 1947. The role of the monarch now is very different as how it was in say medieval times, where the king/queen was the highest authority and had an immense amount of power, the British would worship them and to be British was to support them. Nowadays the Queen may still be powerful but politics seems to show as the main principle of Britishness. Along with this has gone the old idealism of patriotism.Propaganda during the war used our identity to rally us into battle and to protect ourselve. However now the war we are in now is not trying to force us to war.

3. Blog a summary of how the clips from Passport to Pimlico construct a representation of Britishness.

The people in the film are all a community, they work together and everyone seems to know everyone else. So when they find out that they are actually Burgundian they are all outraged to almost be exiled from the country they have been so patriotic too.The policemens response was very British as he sort of shrugged it off as a minor setback. And the word Blimey in general is a very British phrase.
The second clip shows that as British people we don't like to be pushed around or told what we can and can't do. So when the woman shouts out the window about fighting to be Burgundian as we are british. It shows that the only real reason they want to be Burgundian is because it's British to fight for what we believe in and for our own rights.
The scene with the british throwing the "French" food is showing that we care for our own, as the British are overthrowing the police jst to give to the people they support and love.
The moment that Pimlico is technically back on British soil it rains, after an intense drought, the rain is a typical joke of the British and Foreigners that we are renowned for rain.