Representation

Representation relates to the presenting of reality in the media. When studying representation, what has been constructed and how audiences receive and consume them are looked at. In many situations the knowledge of people and issues will come from the media which makes representations very important. It is usually impossible for any representation to be unbiased in any way which gives great power and responsibility to media institutions. Newspapers in particular are often accused of strating moreal panics by the way they represent people or groups.

Representation in the media are oftne broken into social groups which are; age, disability, gender, socio-economic grouping, race, nationality and sexuality.

Stereotypes are characters in media text who are classed as types rather than people. Childrens media texts often make extensive use of stereotypes because they enable a young audience to identify very quickly with the action and situation. Stereotypes are usually represent an entire social group in a single character.

Equally there are particular stereotypes which we asscioate with certain things such as genre where are certain character fits into a certain genre; such as a unattractive women would not be found in a Hollywood movie.

I have found this useful for my research in order to look how the genre we propose to use will ascertain representations percieved to the audience. In terms of the plan we need to think how we want each character and the trailer as a whole to be presented to the audience.  While planning for our pitch we though a lot about how we want to represent in the trailer being the young boy, we would like to persuade and implemented to the audience a feel of sympathy to the young boy in the start of the trailer but feel hatred and fear of if towards the end; however we wish to do this without revealing too much of what actually happened to him in the trailer in order to attract the audience to actually see the film.