Plan for answering: 'Analyse the ways in which the media represent groups of people'

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

• Youth
• The media reinforce stereotypes - in the case of young people, these stereotypes are predominantly negative
• Hooligans 

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

Discuss how one or more groups of people are represented through the media.

Youth:

76% of reporting of young people is negative.

• Only 12% of crime is committed by young people.

• 39% of adults are unaware of the positive things young people do.

• Nearly 750 young people completed an online poll for the British Youth Council (BYC) and YouthNet - 80% believed unfair portrayal in the media led to strained relations with older generations.

• Analyse the ways in which at least one group of people is 'mediated'.

If the word MEDIATED comes up here’s a few ideas about it to include in an introduction which then allows you go on to talk about your case studies.

Media Theory Quotes

Christian Metz - 'Stages of genres: experimental/classics/parody/deconstruction'
 I can implement this quote into an exam by describing what section our film fits into and why.

Tzvetan Todorov - 5 stages of a movie - equilibrium/disruption of the equilibrium/recognition of the disruption/attempt to repair the disruption/reinstatement of the equilibrium
I can either relate Todorovs theory or I could explain why our movie doesn't conform to this

Stuart Hall - 'The media and  therefore audiences often blur race and class. Often associating particular races with particular classes.
In our film we challenge this theory a we casted a black actor to play the role of the middle/upper class agent

Using conventions from real media texts 1A

Post-Production 1A

Research and Planning 1A

We contacted a number of storage companies as we wanted to film in a container/small white room. We wanted a space like this to use in the torture scene and when the protagonist was tied up as it would resemble an interrogation room

Creativity 1A

As we didn't have access to any buildings to film in. The way we got around this is by filming Ryan walking into a random building and then cutting that with a scene we shot at school and made in look like it was in the same place.

I built a slider for the AS project as we wanted professional looking smooth shots

Digital Technology 1A

Nikon D7000 - Using this camera allowed us to use higher ISOs without losing the quality of the image. This was really useful because we wanted to film in a dark cupboard in order to make it look like our detainee was imprisoned in a dark, uninviting interior.  This would not have been possible without a high quality digital camera which we could manually change the settings of in order to achieve the desired result.  It allowed us to focus manually which was useful when doing the focus pull on the wrists of our detainee struggling to get out of his bonds.

Prezi - Using Prezi allowed us to creatively display our final evaluation of the project.  It is also perfectly set up to allow us to mind map our ideas in a very visual way.  I was able to embed a background track and YouTube videos

Garage band was used to create the drone that was used in the background of our project. Once we had created the drone we needed a way of getting it into our project, we used a software called Sound Flower which allowed us to record the track in real time.

Final Cut Pro - We used this software to edit and cut together the whole project together. This powerful editing system gave us a huge amount of creative freedom to create an exiting opening scene