One other theorist is Hebdige who puts his theory on the youth culture forward. His theory focuses on the reality of youth cultures and the idea of subcultures, youths to express themselves and to challenge hegemony. His theory is that the representation of youth is very limited as they are either shown as troubled or fun and there is no inbetween. He also argues that the medias representation of young people is not reality.
Therefore this would effect the representation of youths dramatically. Due to them either being shown in two different ways of being in trouble or having fun. In the media it suggests that we never get to see the good and hard working teens of society who just fade into the background, being seen by the media as boring. By looking at this theory we are able to see that the media in society tends to ignore the good and hardworking and focuses on the fun and the trouble. This therefore makes adults believe that all youths behave in this manner.
One more theorist is Cohen. Cohen's theory studied the medias response to the mods and rocker riots in the 1960's and the idea of moral panic to occur in a society which reflects the anxieties at that time in Britain. The effect of moral panic is to reinforce hegemony by the media making it clear what values society do not accept. This shows that when youths try to express themselves in a way that adult have not seen before, they try and stop it by showing it as a negative aspect. Therefore this would effect the representation of youths as it shows that they are not allowed to express themselves within a different way that society does not see as acceptable.
Therefore this places a more negative effect on the youths as everything they do, out of the norms of society, is seen as bad. By looking at this theory we are able to see that the media places the blame onto the youths seeing them as an easy target. This causes the moral panic cycle to happen in order stamp down hard onto anything that youths try to do that is out of the norm.
Monday, 14 November 2016
Youth Culture Theories 1.
I have learnt that there are several theories put forth by different people about youth culture and how they are effected as well as the effect they have on society, these people are: Giroux, Acland, Hebdige, Cohen, Gramsci, Greg Phil and Gerbner.
Firstly, Giroux theory is about how the youth are mistreated within the media. Describing them as an 'empty category' explains that adults do not really understand what it is like to be a youth in this generation. Therefore they just put their own ideas into the empty space of what they believe the representation of young youth is.
The effects of this representation is the media involving just adults, therefore greatly effects these representations of young people. The adults do not want their generation to look bad therefore use teenagers as a scapegoat to place the blame on.By looking at this theory we are able to see that the representation of youth is moulded together through what adults think and believe. This then leads to uprising of stereotypes through the media and also cause moral panics. When all of this has just been created through hegemony and the media raining their ideas down onto adults.
Acland is another theorist who put his theory forward on youth culture. His theory is about media representations on delinquent youths. The idea that the media's representation of young people allows the state to control them. This is known as 'Ideology of protection' the idea that youths need to be constantly watched and how youth is the time where young people learn about social roles and values and that the state needs to confirm these values.
This therefore effects the representations as the adults see all youths as being bad and reckless and they have to keep enforcing that these actions are bad. This is to enforce the hegemony of how they should not behave when they reach adulthood. This means that there will be more negative stories in the media. By looking at this theory we are able to see that adults believe that it is necessary to show youths in such a disastrous way. This is so that they can tell youths how to act anyhow not to act so they can enforce middle class hegemony.
Firstly, Giroux theory is about how the youth are mistreated within the media. Describing them as an 'empty category' explains that adults do not really understand what it is like to be a youth in this generation. Therefore they just put their own ideas into the empty space of what they believe the representation of young youth is.
The effects of this representation is the media involving just adults, therefore greatly effects these representations of young people. The adults do not want their generation to look bad therefore use teenagers as a scapegoat to place the blame on.By looking at this theory we are able to see that the representation of youth is moulded together through what adults think and believe. This then leads to uprising of stereotypes through the media and also cause moral panics. When all of this has just been created through hegemony and the media raining their ideas down onto adults.
Acland is another theorist who put his theory forward on youth culture. His theory is about media representations on delinquent youths. The idea that the media's representation of young people allows the state to control them. This is known as 'Ideology of protection' the idea that youths need to be constantly watched and how youth is the time where young people learn about social roles and values and that the state needs to confirm these values.
This therefore effects the representations as the adults see all youths as being bad and reckless and they have to keep enforcing that these actions are bad. This is to enforce the hegemony of how they should not behave when they reach adulthood. This means that there will be more negative stories in the media. By looking at this theory we are able to see that adults believe that it is necessary to show youths in such a disastrous way. This is so that they can tell youths how to act anyhow not to act so they can enforce middle class hegemony.
Film Techniques
Film Techinques
In todays lesson, me and my partner did some research on horror film techniques and looked at how existing horror films use different camera shits and methods of creating a tense atmosphere. We looked at behind the scenes for films such as: The Boy, The Conjuring and don't Breath. We looked at how the director used camera angles and shots to give audience a false sense of security, which the directors used to their advantage to scare the audience even more with techniques such as jump scares when the atmosphere is supposedly calm and quiet.
The behind the scenes also showed us the type of special effects that they used in filming. Although we can't use special effects, especially at the level of professional film makers, it gave us an educated insight into how we could try and alter our film to adjust our limited resources. This allowed us to us to use what he had as we knew we couldn't match modern special effects, such as picking a location that meant we didn't have to change the back ground while editing
Monday, 7 November 2016
Pre Production
My group has finalized our locations for filming the project. The first scenes will be set in the girlfriends house with her texting her boyfriend. after a few shots the scene will transition to a pathway where the boyfriend is also texting the girl back and walking to her house.
There are only two main locations that we will film in which include the girlfriends house and the remote pathway that the boyfriend will be taking to get to the house. This makes filming slightly easier as we only have to worry about shooting from two different places and we don't need to jump around multiple locations which will save time.
Although we are only using two locations, that doesn't mean the film will consequently be less entertaining. We will be using a range of shots and techniques that will make the film just as entertaining as opposed to if we used multiple locations.
There are only two main locations that we will film in which include the girlfriends house and the remote pathway that the boyfriend will be taking to get to the house. This makes filming slightly easier as we only have to worry about shooting from two different places and we don't need to jump around multiple locations which will save time.
Although we are only using two locations, that doesn't mean the film will consequently be less entertaining. We will be using a range of shots and techniques that will make the film just as entertaining as opposed to if we used multiple locations.
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Media project basic plot
Today we began finalizing the characters for our media project. We have 3 characters in total for our film, these are the boyfriend, girlfriend and the mystery stalker. Our plot is also nearing completion. So far the basic plot goes as follows: the boyfriend is texting his girlfriend whilst on the way to her house. The boyfriend is full of happiness and can't wait to see his lover.
However as his journey to her house goes on he quickly begins to believe that he is being stalked by something. By this time we decided to have him in a field to add a sense of fear and uncertainty. We will have multiple shots of the stalker but never showing their face to the camera. Eventually we have the stalker catch up to the boyfriend and do something to him. The stalker then proceeds to take the boyfriends phone and continues to text the girlfriend giving a false sense of security.
As the stalker approaches the girlfriends house the texts to her become obviously less and less like the boyfriends texts. By the time the girl realizes something isn't right the stalker is already out side her house. She still opens the door however, and it is then too late.
The final scene consists of a brief and tense game of hide and seek as the girl attempts to hide from her attacker. Being a horror film we expect to put techniques like jump scares and shaky camera movement to emphasis the severity of the situation.
However as his journey to her house goes on he quickly begins to believe that he is being stalked by something. By this time we decided to have him in a field to add a sense of fear and uncertainty. We will have multiple shots of the stalker but never showing their face to the camera. Eventually we have the stalker catch up to the boyfriend and do something to him. The stalker then proceeds to take the boyfriends phone and continues to text the girlfriend giving a false sense of security.
As the stalker approaches the girlfriends house the texts to her become obviously less and less like the boyfriends texts. By the time the girl realizes something isn't right the stalker is already out side her house. She still opens the door however, and it is then too late.
The final scene consists of a brief and tense game of hide and seek as the girl attempts to hide from her attacker. Being a horror film we expect to put techniques like jump scares and shaky camera movement to emphasis the severity of the situation.
The Inbetweeners
In today's lesson we started looking at another youth representation film called the inbetweeners. The film is about four young boys who travel around Australia supposedly having the time of their life. The film is full of youth representation from crude humor to degrading each others parents, there is a lot of stereotypical male teenage humor used to represent the youth of today.
The film makes the representation of the young teenagers mostly about their crude humor about sex and women, the way they talk and joke about women and sex as an object and something that they don't value shows the lack of maturity that young people are stereo typically see to posses.
Analyzing this film in terms of its representation includes looking at the language that they use. Terms such as "Banter" and "F*** off" show the level of immaturity you would expect from a group of teenagers. As these terms are used very early on in the film, it quickly shows the audience the type of characters that they are without having to progress through the story too much.
The film makes the representation of the young teenagers mostly about their crude humor about sex and women, the way they talk and joke about women and sex as an object and something that they don't value shows the lack of maturity that young people are stereo typically see to posses.
Analyzing this film in terms of its representation includes looking at the language that they use. Terms such as "Banter" and "F*** off" show the level of immaturity you would expect from a group of teenagers. As these terms are used very early on in the film, it quickly shows the audience the type of characters that they are without having to progress through the story too much.
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