Creative Digital Media Production Unit 1: Lesson 10

What do you think Representation means?

How something is portrayed

Tutor Definition
In media studies this means the way in which aspects of society are parented
to an audience by specific media text

What do we call the processes of creating and understanding

representations?
Encoding

Decoding

What are the two ways that representations are created?

Construction
All media is construction
Different aspects of reality
They make the product

Selection
Which elements are chosen by the
creator of the text to be included
what have and not to have

Misfits
Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show,
on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a
community service program, where they obtain supernatural
powers after a strange electrical storm.

Watch the opening scene to Misfits. Write down how you feel
youth is represented in the scene.
They are obsessed with there phone, they are arrogant, can be
threatening, can be flirty, can be violent, are jokey.

How do the characters powers reflect the characters themselves?

Kelly- she was nice to people when she could heard what they
said.
Simon- when can turn invisible because he is insecure

Overall how are youth being represented in Misfits?

They show understanding and they show what people think
about youth before they know them.