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Representation…
• These are not the actual thing or person – they are a representation of the thing.
• Representation means to re-present (i.e. show again)
• Remember: Individuals and groups of people are represented in the media as being a certain way. This is a construct of reality and NOT reality itself.
How we are represented
• I could represent this class as diligent and hard working.
• Or I could represent you as off-task and disengaged.
It’s all about HOW I choose to show you, and what I leave OUT.It’s also about WHO is doing the re-presenting
MEDIATION
• The media selects (mediates) the way it shows people to serve its own purposes.
• A media producer (the person who made the media product – advert, film, TV show) will deliberately represent a person or group according to what they want others to believe.
Key term: Mediation
Mediation refers how a representation is put together and what message it gives the audience
Actor Mediation Representation of character
Selection process:
Type of mediaEditing
Camera Angle
Costume
Language
Music
Key term: MEDIATION
(Reality) The outcome
Message to the Audience
Actor Mediation Representation of character
Selection process:
Type of mediaEditing
Camera Angle
Costume
Language
Music
Key term: MEDIATION
Orlando Bloom
Every report of an event is a representation of the event, NOT reality.
Versions of reality:
What you hear and see in the media is controlled by the person who is informing you –
IT IS ONE PERSON’S REPRESENTATION AND THEREFORE WILL PRESENT THEIR OPINIONS, BELIEFS AND BIASES.
Media representation can have many interpretations so as to direct the audience towards a desired outcome or message the producer can add captions, music, mise en scene, lighting or film from certain camera angles.
Key Term: ANCHORAGE
What do you think?
Construction and Focus• So media texts ( and representations)
are all constructions – they are built.
• Focus – mediation also encourages the audience to focus upon a particular aspect of the media texts to push us towards a certain perspective.
• E.g. in a drama the camera may focus upon a particular character or in newspapers and magazines our eyes are drawn to the headlines and coverlines
MISE EN SCENE
Costume, make upLighting - high key, low key, interior, exterior, artificial, back lightingProduction DesignPropsPerformance (body language, facial expressions)Space
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Close up, extreme close up/long shot, mid shot, two shot, POV, high/low/canted angle, over the shoulder, composition, proximity framing, rule of thirds,, deep/shallow focus, depth of field, tracking, panning, zooming, tilting, craning
SOUND
Sound bridge, motif, non-diegetic/diegetic, ambient, instrumental, soundtrack, tone, tempo, dialogue, sound effects, foley, synchronous/asynchronous, incidental, music score
EDITING
Fast/slow pace, long/short takes, fade, dissolve, cut, transition, 180 degree rule, montage/continuity editing, match on action, eyeline-match, cross cutting/parallel editing, simultaneous action