Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Description of Representation

How the media relates reality into their works. This also involves how the media makes certain topics more important by the coverage they recieve. In conventianal terms, a wildlife documentary intends for you to experience the world but there are cases of false representation. These include time-travel series' and many space related dramas.

Before the over-exaggeration of plitical correctness, many male roles were chosen due to the masculinity, strength and resiliance. These would be ideal for machinery or beer. Compared to the often softer, feminine approach to a female character. These are usually used in households products and hygenic products. They can also be interpereted as sex symobls for the opposite sex, this is common in perfumes and colognes. Race is no longer portrayed as very diverse races, in the early 20th century minority races were discriminated against, but this is no longer the case. Age can be used by drama for both comic relief and as a sign of weakness. An elderly character may be portrayed as unaware of the modern surroundings (and then hilarity insues) or sometimes in too deep (resulting in some form of uncomfortableness for them and the viewers)

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