I will link the vlog that I did to answer my first evaluation question. The Question is, In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Giroux Theory (1997) Representation of youth Giroux views show how the youth are mistreated within media. Describing them as an empty category explains that adults don’t understand what it is like to be a youth in this generation. Therefore they just but their own ideas into this empty space of what they believe their representation is. The effects Media involving just adults therefore greatly effects these representations. The adults do not want their generation to look bad therefore uses teenagers as a scapegoat. The role of media representations in society By looking at this theory we are able to see that the representation of youth is moulded together through what adults believe and think. 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 down their ideas.
I have recently completed the first ancillary text. The first ancillary text that i did was a poster for our film The Life Of A Football Hooligan. I will link the poster below. i decided that i will make the poster look like the front cover of an Oxford United match day magazine. The reason that i did this is because i felt like it would add something more to the production instead of just a generic film poster. Oxford United match day magazine My film poster
Overshadowed Overshadowed is a TV program aired by BBC three on the BBC I player and it follows the life of Imogene who is a vlogger. It is an innovative drama. It is based on the award winning play about Imogene the vlogger whose life spirals out of control. The innovative drama has lots of youth culture issues in it including, parental issues, relationship issues and the main issue being anorexia. In the series you meet a lot of Imogene’s friend. There are a few main characters that we see in Overshadowed. The main character is obviously Imogene but then there is the person that’s always with her who is the voice in her head/ the anorexia and its stops her from eating. In the first two episodes the audience really starts to grasp an idea of the main issues being betrayed in overshadowed. The first issues that we see is that of the pressure put on young teenage girls by nowadays society about them having to look and feel a certain way and the fact they and don’t fit in if they don
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