Y10 Representation in Action Adventure Film

Analyse the images below:

• Taron Egerton and Colin Firth in Kingsman
• Dylan O'Brien & Kaya Scodelario in Maze Runner

Write about the representation of the celebrity. Include the following:

• facial expression
• styling e.g.: hair, make-up, clothes, costume, props
• background (the mise en scene). What does the background/ setting/ location they are in tell us about them

Do your work on a word doc. Print out and paste in your books. Colour images please.

Y10 Stereotypes Vocabulary

We have been working on Representation of Teenagers. In many of the presentations of reality you found, you have come across Stereotypes being used to represent groups of people or certain characters.

Task: Can you select one of the examples from your presentation and write about them in your book? Using the work you did with your group, you need to use one image of the character and explain how they are being represented by commenting on:

• facial expression
• styling e.g.: hair, make-up, clothes, costume, props
• background (the mise en scene). What does the background/ setting/ location they are in tell us about them

USEFUL VOCABULARY
Stereotype - a generalisation (often true but can contain falsehoods) e.g. Brits drink tea
Countertype - a challenge to a stereotype, presents an alternative view of a group e.g. women being practical and good at DIY or men being sensitive and understanding
Atypical - not representative of a type, group, or class
Quintessential - representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class. Often timeless e.g. Bowler hats and suits for upper class Brits
Zeitgeist - typical of the time, captures the dominant mood/fashion of a time. Only popular for a fleeting moment e.g. a particular fashion or musical movement

EXTENSION WORK
Everything we have done revolves around 'stereotypes'
1. Copy Tessa Perkins' views on stereotypes into you books
2. Include an example for each (I have done the first for you) as well as an example from TV, Film or Magazine

Stereotypes - Tessa Perkins

Rethinking Stereotypes - (Tessa Perkins)

1. Stereotypes are not always wrong - The English do drink tea
2. They are not always negative concepts
3. They are about groups with whom we have little or no social contact; by implication, therefore, they are not held about our own group(s)
4. They are not always about minority (or oppressed) groups
5. They can be simple or complicated
6. They are not rigid and can change
7. People often believe some parts of a stereotype but not always all

Y10 Representation Theory

It is not possible for the media to present the world as it really is because when the media constructs meanings about the world they change or mediate what is really there.

Richard Dyer is a British media theorist, who discussed a star's special place in the audiences' lives. He suggests that the star image is manufactured and artificial and that individual stars have their own unique selling point in order to grab and hold our attention - for example Justin Bieber's hair.

The paradox of the Star

Dyer goes on to say that a star must be represented as both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time, in order for the audience to buy into their celebrity status. They need to appear to be just like us (the audience/regular people), but also at the same time possess something we do not have and something that makes them special, different, extraordinary. This may mean that they are more talented, gifted, confident, passionate, artistic, sensitive, carefree or sexy, but they are also allowed to be rebellious, anti-social, or angry maybe. They are idealised versions of humanity or in other words idols.

He also thinks this paradox (a statement that contradicts itself) means that the star has to be present in our lives, in terms of in our social group chats, our style, our habits and our consumption habits. However, they are also absent; something we think of as out of reach, on a pedestal and not actually there.

Task:
1. Look at the images of the celebrities below and consider what they are using as their unique selling point.
a) Pharrell Williams and his wife Helen.
b) Miley Cyrus performing at the VMA Awards 2015

Write about the representation of the celebrity. Include the following:

• facial expression
• styling e.g.: hair, make-up, clothes, costume, props
• background (the mise en scene). What does the background/ setting/ location they are in tell us about them

2. Select four celebrities of your own choice and complete the same activity.

3. Complete work on word and glue into your book.

Year 10 Action Adventure Films

Using your knowledge about how teenagers are represented, we are looking at three specific film posters. These are all action adventure films.

Using the key images from the film posters, can you answer the questions below. You can deconstruct the posters to show the evidence you need to support your answers.

1. What are the conventions of Action Adventure Films?
2. How are teenagers Represented in Action Adventure films to appeal to a Target Audience?

Task: Using the three film posters from The Hunger Games, The Amazing Spiderman and Jurassic World:

1. Analyse how the films follow the conventions of the action adventure genre. 
2. Explore how the teenage characters are represented in the film. 
3. Discuss how you think that these films designed to appeal to the target audience.

Year 11 Planning Work To Do

Layout conventions in a flat plan drawing

Continue creating your initial planning ideas for your own magazine. Refer to yesterday's lesson post to help you remember the tasks you need to get completed by Friday 9th October. 

Magazine publishers spend time creating detailed layout plans to ensure their content is presented in the most effective way. You need to show how your ideas have developed, step-by-step, in your Media Portfolio. Remember SAVE EVERYTHING you are doing on these first drafts in your media folder.

Year 10: Magazine Task

1. Create your own magazine front cover, using Photoshop.
2. Analyse your own front cover, labelling the conventions. Use this list to help you name each convention. Say why you believe it appeals to your chosen target audience.
3. Choose a magazine cover. Recreate it, using your Photoshop skills. The layout has to be exactly the same as the original.
4. SAVE all your work carefully in your Media Studies folder ready for the next lesson.

Year 11 Planning: Create your first Magazine Front Cover

Create your initial ideas for your own magazine front cover.

You need to use your research to begin planning your first draft front cover of your own original magazine. Today, you need to focus on a name and what key image you need to suit your target audience. Think about the layout of your magazine, based on the magazine examples you have been deconstructing in your research work.

Task 1: Using Photoshop, recreate the magazine front cover you deconstructed in your research work. The layout must be exactly the same.

Task 2: Create your own magazine front cover, using a found image that would suit your Target Audience and magazine genre. Create an original name and then add some of the sell lines you intend to include to appeal to the interests of your readers.

Create your magazine draft using Photoshop. Remember to give each element a different layer, like you did when creating your film poster product.