Representation:

In this lesson we had to find out the meaning of representation and what device link to this topic and how its use to make things successful and understanding.

Representation " The process by which shows the media in our "real world" today. The reason why i quoted real world is because i can't always be real and you can't always believe in what people say.

Also there is selection process:

• The decision over what is chosen to be represented and what is rejected.
• The choices made when organising the representation.
• The options taken to focus the audience in a certain way. (e.g big brother it a whole days show but it gets cut down to and hour show on channel 4, this cuts the main aspect out like arguments and views about people which creates a character in a person in the house which grabs popularity and entertainment which makes the show successful.)

Then we got answered a question on how we would ask when analysing representation, we went through and came up with this solutions:

• WHO or WHAT is being represented ?
• HOW is the representation created ?
• WHO has created the representation ?
• WHY is the representation created in that way ? And what is the in tension.
• WHAT is the effect of the representation ?

Then we where looking at gate keeping which is .... A theorist called White (1961) spoke of the 'gatekeepers' that is the people who are part of the decision making process in the cons traction of media texts. We also came up with examples:

• Parental control
• BBC commissioners - head of different genres
• Law makers
• Directors - camera angles and storyline in way of acting
• Producer - in charge of money, locations, actors, editing, etc .....
• Editor - edits every bit of movement and action in the film.
• Audience (recent phenomemron test screening e.g kangaroo jack, people liked the kangaroo in a murder series)

Also when researching this part of the lesson we found out that most of the directors are all men and there in the white race and there jobs are upper class or middle class. This show that may have a different view of representing people as they are in a different lifestyle to them or i could be stereotypical.

Moving on the lesson we came across the:

The Constructionist Approach:

1. The representation is constructed with a set of ideas and values (producers intent/ in tented meaning)
2. The context of the representation is part of the representation ( media language choices, anchorage, media form, placement location, genre, expectation, etc.... e.g MC Donald's Logo is a massive M so that's how the person realizes its the company.
3. The audience reacts to this representation and this depends on their own personal interpretational context: age, gender, political, religious beliefs, nationally, gangs (drugs and guns) etc.... (negotiated meaning).

Richard Dyer also made a statement on matter of imagery. He said

"How we are seen determines how we are treated, how we treat others is based on how we see them. How we see them comes from representation.

From this lesson its gives me more of a imaged mind map of what to overcome when i get my exam questions about a certain question, about a topic which relates to these devices and how i can plan out and find the main factors which will help me get a better grade outcome.