Post modernism: Lesson One.

POST MODERNISM

1A 30 MINS                                          1B 30 MINS                         2 1 HOURS

Six sets from 2 medium- 3 from each
TV, Film, Internet, Games, Mobile Phones

Post modernism definition: There isn't a defined definition of post modernism. (After/against modernism) No definition because we are living in era of post modernity- historical area post WW II- 1948 ish. Still going on- we are living in the postmodernist.

Asthetic: A look a feel. Art, culture and society is not just one part.

MODERN -----> INDUSTRY - Rise of things such as planes- Cameras etc

|______________________________________________________________________________|

Moved around/away-                  Enlightenment (17th -
from religion questioned                                               - Science/logic become important

It's about the difference between traditional and modern media texts.
An idea of change
Historians and philosophisers gave historical period names based on shared features

New Cast List

MAIN ACTRESS:

Jess will continue to be my main actress
And there are no changes to her character or costume.


















NEW CHARACTER CO-STAR ROLE:

Megan is a new character of mine that is replacing Peter. She helped with my coursework last year and was more than welcome to help again this year.
Jess and Megan are already very close friends so there will be no awkwardness.
Megan is 17, and is also a student at wyke college so it will be easy to arrange times to film.

Collective Identity:Lesson Two

How many texts minimum do you need to refer to in your exam?

• Two texts that you have to refer to.

To create a balanced argument what three areas do you need to refer to in your exam?

• Historical, future, contemporary

 How many questions do you answer in your exam overall?

• You answer three questions, 1 a, 1b and choose between Post-modernism or collective identity

Collective Identity: Having the same beliefs, ideologies and values.

Young people control the social media- meaning young people can and do control their own ideology.

The concept of collective identity refer to to the set of individual and the sense of belonging to a group. For the individual, the identity derived from the collective group shapes apart of his or her personal identity. Making them feel apart and integrated into society. 

David Gauntlett: 'Identity is complicated everybody thinks they have one' -Identity is complicated, on what the person has experienced.
Identity can be negative and not always positive.

Top 5 search results in google for teens in January 2015.
There is stories about teenage: Violence, Pregnancy, crime, bullying, drinking

• Representation of youth in TV are extreme 
• Representation in News
• Research of six UK newspapers of the past 10 years found that the words most commonly associated with 'teenagers", "Youth", and "Young people" were "Binge drinking", "Yobs" and "Crime"
• Bob Satchwell, executive director of the society of education said 'If teenagers looked at media coverage more widely they would see 'a much balanced picture'" with prominent positive reporting of high-achieving young people in and a level students, Olympic athletes, footballers as well as young solders who had served the UK board.
• They portrayed teenage boys as "Yobs" in the media has made boys wary of other teenagers, according to new research figures show more than half of the stories about teenage boys in national newspaper in the past year (4,374 out of 8,620) were about crime. Yobs (597) thugs (254), sick (119) feral (96)
• Other terms hoodie, louts, heartless, evil, frightening, scum, monsters, inhumane and threatening.
• The best chance of teenager had of receiving sympathetic coverage was if they died
• In the press-  A say Third they're always  or 'often' wary of teenage boys they don't know
• We can control the social media- showing a more positive representation of media.

 

Complications

Due to filming and schedules with both my actors I found difficulty in having time to find for both actors to film in this I have chosen to change one of my actors. So I have chosen to replace Peter so that we are able to film meeting both mine and the colleges deadlines 

In order to solve this problem I have changed the casting to a female which will make the readers think more on video instead of them being ditscarted by the idea that it could of been a love video which it was not. 

Collective Identity: Lesson One

COLLECTIVE IDENTITY: LESSON ONE

REPRESENTION OF YOUTH AND YOUTH CULTURE

How is youth represented in the media?

Dangerous, Violent, Thug ,Lazy, Idiots 

How youth culture is represented in TV programme?

Reckless, violent, depressive, bitchy, Depressive, Careless 

How is youth Culture represented in the news?

Violent, dangerous, wild, careless, males: council estates, chavs. 

How youth culture is represented in films?

Violent, romantic, depressive, dramatic, naïve, sexually active, uncultured

How youth culture is represented in social media?

Adults, violent, stupid, indie, exsopsive  

Do young people perceive representation of youth in the same ways as parents and adults?

*Yes and no as some representations of a particular group of youths could be different to how we as teens see them and as adults see them.  But adults view the youths of today differently to how they were as youths because of their generation ideologies differing from ours.

ABOUT THE EXAM

• Media and collective identity is one out of two questions that you will be able to answer in your exam. 

• You choose either one question on COLLECTIVE IDENITY or POST MODERNISM.

• MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENITY WHAT WE WILL BE STUDYING:

• Representation of youth and youth culture in media

• Study the relevant theorist and apply the theorist to the texts studied

• 4 AREAS ARE VITAL.

• How do the conotempary media represent nation, religion and ethnic/social implications of different media representations compare to previous texts 

• What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people

• To what extent is human identity increasingly medicated? 

MUST refer to the following areas throughout your essay:

                                                                                        Historical representation

                                                                                        Contemporary (Main focus area)

                                                                                        Future representation 

A contemporary media text is classified 5 years from the exam date 

AT LEAST TWO different media texts/ forms in your essay film- good for historical/ contemporary references.

TV

PRESS                                                                               (Good for historical contemporary)

TV NEWS 

SOCIAL MEDIA: Good for future/ contemporary references

REPRESENATIONS OF YOUTH IN THE MEDIA

OUR FOCUS POINT: ‘The representations of youth in the media is complex and repetitive, depending on who and how the media is represented so the audience depends on how consumes perceive in the society’

TO VALIDATE OUR ARGUMENT:

1. Who produces the representation?

2. The media form used for the representation (TV, Film, Social Media, News, Press) 

3. The target audience for the older representation: young, actual age, parent, older non- parent, OAPS.

PRESS: London riots 2011 (Classed as contemporary)

Brighton beach riots Mods Vs Rockers 1964 ( Historical)

TV News: Current offairs and Anne Magvine Murdered By Will Cornick Stabbing in the classroom

FILMS: Fish tank 2009, Quadrophina (1979)

TV: Geordieshore, Inbetweeners, MIC (Made in Chelsea) 

Social Media: Facebook and blogs (Future)

You must refer to theory and theories that relate to and back up your points and argument. 

Analyse the ways in which the media represents any one group of people that you have studied.

With reference to anyone group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has been ‘Medicated’ 

Analyse the ways in which the media represent groups of people.

“The media do not construct collective identity: They merely reflect it’

Audience feed back