Monday, 9 March 2015
Sunday, 8 March 2015
Geordie Shore
- Over exaggerated version of youth - like the press
- TV form of media and makes points that the press give out
- MTV - target audience is teens
- Series 3 - Cancoon
- In love - said by a guy
- 'How am I supposed to shag 'im when he's got one leg'
- Guys biggest fear is about getting wrinkles
- 'Hardest graft I've ever done is my hair' - guy
- 'Fake, flirty, FF's'
- 24 - doing a pinyata- no responsibilities
- Scared of the consequences of having sex with Charlotte
- Getting back at someone by sleeping with someone else
- Only speaks to lads through sex
- Pulling a 'worldie'
- Going out drinking on crutches
- Doin' so well looking like a slag
- Having sex is more important than her friends
- Main topic of speech is relationships, sex and alcohol
- proud of themselves for sleeping with someone
- I'm like a porn star'
- 'Me tits are sweating like waterfalls'
- 'Putting me bronzer on, he's not gay because he fucks me, hard.'
- sex position competition
Thursday 20th february & Wednesday 4th March 2015
Truman Show
- Iclectic borrowing
- One of the features of PM is paranoia especially in Western society
- controlling his life, they have a 'greatest hits' of his life
- creating a bricolage of Sylvia from other media texts
- being controlled by the media
- similar to goggle box ' world within a world'
- 'guards his privacy' yet he is broadcasting someone's life everyday
- Full of PM media - TV screens
- watching him from being a baby
- modification of culture - can buy everything that is seen in the show - Truman Catelog
- 'We accept the reality of the world we are presented' - presented through the media
- Sea Haven is the way the world should be
- TV's first on air conception
Pleasantville
- Gary Ross - 1998
- Sit-com- Reese Witherspoon - Toby Maguire
- channel hopping - PM - we have a choice
- 1950's setting - white picket fence, beetles, red roses
- Nuclear family - all white
- looks like he's talking to someone but he's not, manipulated through the media
- Told the world is going to be bad so they go to a safe place, retreat to nostalgia - PM
- Eating lots for breakfast - normal to them - creating a parody
- fire service are seen rescuing a cat, no real dangers
- Only live on two streets because that's all they used in the show
- kicks a basketball and it goes in the net
- they're bringing 21st century ideologies into the 1950's
- Rock & Roll music coming on to signify change
- Jazz music coming on to signify change in their ideology
- books are writing themselves
- black and white people start to dislike the coloured people - racism
- destroying everything different
Second Life
- Game - PM
- People are creating music for the game but aren't famous in real life
- virtual reality headset for online streaming only
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th February Lesson Write Up
How is youth culture represented in the media?
the media promote a bad ideology of youth by exaggerating the truth and creating a moral panic, this was seen in the Brighton mods v rockers fight in the 1960's in which there was an outcry of people worrying about their safety. Stan Cohen theorised that the repetition of this sort of behaviour, caused by youths caused people to 'folk devil' and categorise youths as being 'yobs' and 'sawdust Ceasars'. However plan B's song 'Ill Manors' proposes that this image is untrue, it is predominantly the news and newspaper reports that are criticising youths and youth culture.
Not just about fights, not as simple as 'it is negative'.
About; government, press, music videos expressing feelings towards this subject.
Predominantly a lower class opinion shown by the press which puts across a bad ideology of youth, people accept what is being said because they believe and trust the media and are brainwashed by it.
History repeats;
Back in 1972 Stan Cohen concluded that "the intellectual poverty and total lack of imagination in our society's response to its adolescent trouble makers during the past 20 years, is manifested in the way this response compulsively repeats itself and fails each time to come to terms with the 'problem' that confronts it"
Marxism
Marxists/Karl Marx are interested in;
- How dominant social groups are able to reproduce their social and economic power - Taylor & Willis 1999
- One of Marx's core ideas about society was that all societies have an economic base. This is seen to be the central core and focus of any society - what makes it function.
- In western cultures this economic base is essentially capitalist - in other words, the whole system is based on the pursuit of wealth.
- the problem is that this doesn't benefit all - the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in this type of system. It leads to social inequality.
- Marx sees a capitalist society as a split society. Those who have power are called the bourgeoisie. those who don't and who have to sell their labour for minimal pay and often no share of the profit are called the proletariat.
- Peoples ideologies construct society. Helps us understand collective identity.
Super Structure
- Marx saw that the economic base supported a super structure.
- The institutions that exist in a society such as those linked to the law, education, politics and the media. These are shaped by the economic base and exist to support, serve and legitimise the base to society - they partly exist to convince people that the way the country works is the right way.
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to make society believe the way in which society is run is the correct way and they feel safe in this society so don't want it to change.
How does Marxism apply to media texts?
- You can look at who owns a media production and who benefits the most financially.
- Texts can be examined to see if thy promote ideologies that support the ruling classes/the status quo - it is being used to control
- do texts promote inequality between groups based on power - are men privileged over women - white over other cultures - upper class over lower class
Althusser
- it is impossible to access the 'real conditions of existence' due to our reliance on language.
- Our language structures our experience of the world and our language is a consequence of the social world.
- We have no way of engaging with the world apart from language. Because of our being inside language we can't see external reality only the ideological interpretation of it - we can only see the representation of reality, not reality itself.
- adopting a set of beliefs or ideology from a system of beliefs we come to think that our beliefs are our own, that they originate from ourselves i.e. my beliefs emerge from my consciousness decisions, I have free will and can choose what I want to do.
- However what Althusser argues is that these beliefs are not really our own - they're social. we're taking part in shared societal ideas but they think they're our own private ideas. We internalise social beliefs and see them as our own.
- the beliefs/ideology can come to us through the ideological state apparatus, the devices by which ideology is transmitted.
- Our consciousness, what we are emerges from these. We exist from a system of beliefs and we internalise these beliefs and they became our own. We then in turn play a part in reproducing them. Therefore people are the producers and determine how society is ruled.
Gramsci - Hegemony
- Hegemony is the way in which those in power maintain their control. Dominant ideologies are considered hegemonic;power in society is maintained by constructing ideologies which are usually promoted by the mass media. We are shown representations of groups of people and consume them, we're made to believe how society is structured is correct.
- Hegemony tends to more often refer to the power of a single group in a society to essentially lead and dictate the other groups of the society. This may be done through communications, through influence of votes of government leaders.
In the media the institutions essentially make the audience view the world from their point of view making them have the same opinion as the producer giving them control over their identity.
Gramsci
- Because we're all connect with these beliefs and share them we actively contribute to their maintenance. Rather than a passive public we give consent to power systems.
- Hegemony is about getting us to actively agree to the system of oppression.
- Marx sees us as being ruled by the wealthy
- Althusser sees us as subjects
- Gramsci sees us as willing if not complicit participants in our own subjectification
Predominantly a lower class opinion shown by the press which puts across a bad ideology of youth, people accept what is being said because they believe and trust the media and are brainwashed by it.
History repeats;
Back in 1972 Stan Cohen concluded that "the intellectual poverty and total lack of imagination in our society's response to its adolescent trouble makers during the past 20 years, is manifested in the way this response compulsively repeats itself and fails each time to come to terms with the 'problem' that confronts it"
Marxism
Marxists/Karl Marx are interested in;
- How dominant social groups are able to reproduce their social and economic power - Taylor & Willis 1999
- One of Marx's core ideas about society was that all societies have an economic base. This is seen to be the central core and focus of any society - what makes it function.
- In western cultures this economic base is essentially capitalist - in other words, the whole system is based on the pursuit of wealth.
- the problem is that this doesn't benefit all - the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in this type of system. It leads to social inequality.
- Marx sees a capitalist society as a split society. Those who have power are called the bourgeoisie. those who don't and who have to sell their labour for minimal pay and often no share of the profit are called the proletariat.
- Peoples ideologies construct society. Helps us understand collective identity.
Super Structure
- Marx saw that the economic base supported a super structure.
- The institutions that exist in a society such as those linked to the law, education, politics and the media. These are shaped by the economic base and exist to support, serve and legitimise the base to society - they partly exist to convince people that the way the country works is the right way.
-
to make society believe the way in which society is run is the correct way and they feel safe in this society so don't want it to change.
How does Marxism apply to media texts?
- You can look at who owns a media production and who benefits the most financially.
- Texts can be examined to see if thy promote ideologies that support the ruling classes/the status quo - it is being used to control
- do texts promote inequality between groups based on power - are men privileged over women - white over other cultures - upper class over lower class
Althusser
- it is impossible to access the 'real conditions of existence' due to our reliance on language.
- Our language structures our experience of the world and our language is a consequence of the social world.
- We have no way of engaging with the world apart from language. Because of our being inside language we can't see external reality only the ideological interpretation of it - we can only see the representation of reality, not reality itself.
- adopting a set of beliefs or ideology from a system of beliefs we come to think that our beliefs are our own, that they originate from ourselves i.e. my beliefs emerge from my consciousness decisions, I have free will and can choose what I want to do.
- However what Althusser argues is that these beliefs are not really our own - they're social. we're taking part in shared societal ideas but they think they're our own private ideas. We internalise social beliefs and see them as our own.
- the beliefs/ideology can come to us through the ideological state apparatus, the devices by which ideology is transmitted.
- Our consciousness, what we are emerges from these. We exist from a system of beliefs and we internalise these beliefs and they became our own. We then in turn play a part in reproducing them. Therefore people are the producers and determine how society is ruled.
Gramsci - Hegemony
- Hegemony is the way in which those in power maintain their control. Dominant ideologies are considered hegemonic;power in society is maintained by constructing ideologies which are usually promoted by the mass media. We are shown representations of groups of people and consume them, we're made to believe how society is structured is correct.
- Hegemony tends to more often refer to the power of a single group in a society to essentially lead and dictate the other groups of the society. This may be done through communications, through influence of votes of government leaders.
In the media the institutions essentially make the audience view the world from their point of view making them have the same opinion as the producer giving them control over their identity.
Gramsci
- Because we're all connect with these beliefs and share them we actively contribute to their maintenance. Rather than a passive public we give consent to power systems.
- Hegemony is about getting us to actively agree to the system of oppression.
- Marx sees us as being ruled by the wealthy
- Althusser sees us as subjects
- Gramsci sees us as willing if not complicit participants in our own subjectification
Monday, 2 March 2015
CD backs
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| In this CD back we see Beyoncé herself on her own CD. This is common amongst all genres of music not just pop or punk. Within this cover Beyoncé is wearing little clothing around her bottom and legs to show off her flesh and to entice a male audience and fans. This is seen in pop music but is rare amongst rock or even punk. She also has her song titles and numbers down the opposite side to which she is stood in both images so it does not distract from the image and also so the writing is easy to read, the picture could cause the writing to be unreadable. Again on both is the bar code in the corner and record label and a small piece about who makes the CD and produced it etc. Down both sides of the CD is the same on both sides, the name of the artist and album and also a product number and record label. In this case SONY. |
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| this image is from Debbie Harry's album KooKoo. It, like the Beyoncé albums has the same style on the back as it does on the front, and has the same features on the side of the CD. On this back she has included the spikes that were seen to be going through her face on the front of the CD and again the track list and numbers aren't covering the image or vice versa. However unlike Beyoncé Debbie hasn't used a picture of herself on the back. And again there is a little information on the record label and it has a bar code, this time underneath the main image. |
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| This is Katy Perry's 'California Girls' CD back. Much like Debbie Harry's CD back cover Katy hasn't used a picture of herself on the back of this CD. Instead she has carried on the theme of the clouds which can be seen on the front of her CD. She has also used the theme of candy on her back cover replacing the letter 'o's' with what looks to be lollipops. Again there is a bar code and a little bit of information on the record label. |
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| This is Avril Lavigne's C D back cover to one of her newest albums. This, like Beyoncé has a picture of her on the back aswell as the front, as Avril is my main inspiration for my music video a lot of my ideas will come from her, however not forgetting other punk or pop artists. Again there is some information on the record label also showing their logo and a bar code not distracting from the main image. Avril has very dark eye make up in both CD backs which is common of punk music and can be seen on both men and women in this genre. similarly the track names and numbers are away from the main image again in both pictures, it is seen that this is done in all genres not just pop-punk. In both images the theme has been carried on from the front of the CD. |
Title colours
Bad filming.
After watching some of my footage that I had recorded in the February half term I noticed a flaw in one of the shots that I thought was very good. I noticed that I had left some of our jackets and equipment hanging on a tree and it was very visible, even if you weren't looking for it. I have decided that this would not be a good piece of filming to use in my video so I am going to re-film this shot (whilst filming more) at some point within the coming week.
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