Representation

A representation can be defined in many ways. It can either be thought of as being an image of a group of members in a culture or group or predictions about strangers due to their religion, race, culture or ethnicity.

You can portray these representations in media through several things. Mise en scene is in my opinion the main way of showing representations of groups. Costume is a main way of representation a person who is in a particular group for example, someone who is a 'chav' will be clothed in tracksuits, hoodies, caps and 'blinged' up with jewellery (as seen in Kidulthood below).

In my AS coursework we had a 'stalker' in our media production. Therefore we wanted him to seem quite mysterious. To represent him as a 'stalker' we requested that he wore a black jacket and black jeans and the shirt he wore was red and white checked shirt- The red was to resemble blood. I felt that if the audience saw a character in very dark clothing it was connote that the character was quite dark and mysterious. Hopefully this worked well.

For my A2 coursework although we will still be having our actors wearing 'indie' clothing similarly to the band we will be representing the group (to appeal to the audience) through the uses of locations. We will be using shots from locations which our audience should be able to relate to. The locations we will be using are: town, bars and the cinema. As our target audience are late teens it is likely that they will have been to all of these locations therefore they will be able to relate and enjoy the music video because it seems more like real life to them.