Applying Representation Theory - group work

ì  What signifiers are used?  What meaning is produced?

ì  What social groups are being represented?  What is shown to be normal/deviant? 

ì  Who constructed the representation?  Why?

ì  Are stereotypes used?  What effect do they have?

ì  Which characters are dominant/submissive?

ì  Who are the objects/subjects of the gaze?

What ‘reality’ is represented?  How does the representation relate to the ‘reality’?

Hall emphasises the importance of visual representation

Saussure' s concept is that langauge creates meaning: Signs can be words, images, sounds, objects

Dyer(1983)- what is being represented and how?

Baudrillard (1980s)- There is no distinction between reality and representation, only the simulacrum. Simulacrum – a copy that now has more reality than the object it is a copy of.

Perkins (1979)- stereotypes

Head up each hexagon as follows:
introduction- what we mean by representation
youth seems to be the hegemonic norm /dominant ideology- so how is youth represented in this video?
mise-en-scene
character(s)
camera
editing
theory + example from text
theory + example from text
theory + example from text
simplistic representatation -conclusion