Creative Digital Media Production Unit 1: Lesson 10

What do you think Representation means?

Presenting a created project that made by yourself.

Tutor Definition
In media studies this means the way in which aspects of society are presented
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

Selection

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.
The youth is presented in a predicted youth way. Aggressive,
Uneducated.

How do the characters powers reflect the characters themselves?

Overall how are youth being represented in Misfits?