Sexuality In the Media

REPRESENTATION OF SEXUALITY

Task 1:
The video of Nina's heavenly night is set in a gay bar this is a denotation as its being represented by a man , dressed as a women singing. His appearance is extremely camp and flamboyant these are just few connotations. you can tell by his body that he is a masculine build and the only thing representing him as a women is his clothes.

Nina , during the beginning seems confused. Stereotypically this is something that is portrayed about gay men or women, that they are confused about who they are but later when nina becomes affectionate with another women, she them realises who she really is. 

This is evident that the women has possibly found her self within her identity and sexual orientation. 

Nina according to stereotypes doesn't look like a typical lesbian that people would have in their ideas, instead she looks like a natural lady that hetrosexual men would fancy, i guess the idea of the directors is that being gay doesn't mean you have to look or behave different yet later on in the video you can see how others do like to portray being gay.

Later on within a muslim community ,a male member is also dressed and flamboyant in women clothing , he is dancing around and entertaining younger muslim children. In the media and muslim community it is seen wrong to be gay, however its evident that this male wants to disobey these rules and show the younger children that being gay is fine,

REPRESENTATION OF REGIONALLY. DOC MARTIN HOMEWORK

(a) Suggest two ways in which regionality has been represented in the clip..
(b) Examine how audiences from different regions might respond to the clip



A)The regionality within the clip has been represented to be extremely rural. within the first scene there is two accents one posh and higher class, this something that is usually represented with a doctor. ( a hard over studied man). whereas the joiners, wight he bristolian accents are dressed for work and come across as a handy man working for a low wage. These classes contrast as both types of people come from a higher class and the others in lower class.

the countryside represents a warm and social area in which people all know each other. 

The clip moves on to a women asking for a prescription without an appointment, she sees this as normal as she must have knew her previous doctor well. she asks doc martin for the same favour who doesn't come to terms with things like this. he dismisses her but then is persuaded to do so. this represents the idea that the polite people of the area are the leaders of the area and this is something new that the new doctor needs to comply with.

The people who live in this village seem to be less educated , we notice veg sellers , joiners ( who can't do there job correctly and then nursery teachers. compared to the doctor these are lower class working people who have to comply with what they have. whereas on the other hand the doctor has a lot to focus on and therefore seems extremely clever and has no time for stupidity- an example being the irritant dog.- he obviously isn't a country man , he seems rather a city man.

Audiences from different regions can either comply with this or object. people may see similarities of their life. a rural audience would find this natural and a good sense of reality , where as city like people may find it boring , and not a good pace compared to a show focusing on a city setting. 

i could imagine the viewers of this show to be from rural areas such as Sheffield, devon and other places. 

Consider the following points when watching the clip:



Can I identify what region the characters/people are from? How?
Are people from different regional backgrounds shown as having different interests, personalities, attitudes or behaviours? If so, how?
Is their regionality represented as being the most important thing in their life?
Are people from particular regions portrayed as being better, more powerful, than others?
Are people from particular regions portrayed as being abnormal /weaker/ more pathetic than others?
How do other characters in the clip treat the characters from different regional backgrounds?
What is the message the clip is trying to portray about regionality?

Representation Of Age

Task 1: 

Watch all the clips below, choose one text only to write 200 words about how age has been represented.

      Monarch Of The Glen   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VyjH9HUCt4   

     Eastenders  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ohiEFW2e0

     Blackpool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L85qL5ph0J0

   

     Skins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho69_sCkwyI

Task 2: How would you say youth represented in this still from Waterloo Road? Consider the visual codes        we have covered.    


    The youth today in the media could possibly be summed up by this picture. the facts that they are all wearing black and some sort of dark coloured jacket suggests that they are ''hoodies''. in the image people seem very slouchy and the body language can show this. people in the back ground are all standing in awe over something happening. the girls look really inquisitive and suggests that there possibly may be trouble within the three male characters who are all looking at each other with their glare.  This scene looks like it has alot of tension , this is represented through the characters faces who look either angry or doubtful. it is defiantly represented that teenagers are moody and also angry individuals.