Red Herrings - A false lead (leading the hero in the wrong direction or like a goose chase)
Main character tends to have an inexperienced sidekick(like robin in TITANS)
A chase (normally in a car)
Cliffhanger at the end of an episode if not resolved (like in Eastenders when a big thing happens and its not resolved in the episode usually finished off in the next episode)
Character
Character teamwork and pleasure in success ( there satisfied when the hero beats the villain and succeeds)
protagonist tends to have major personality defects (alcoholic, gambler, failed marriage) (The bodyguard his wife left him)
Gangster - A crime drama following the leader of a gang or just gangs an example could be peaky blinders
Police soap series - A crime drama following a never ending police solving crime drama for example cuffs
Cold case - When the police close a case for a long time then re open it when the get more evidence onto the crime for example cold case
Court room - A crime drama taking place in a court room following lawyers for example how to get away with a murder
Detective dramas - Follows the detective solving crimes for example broad show
Serial killers - A drama based on following the serial killer whilst being the main character for example The end of the f**cking world
Prison - A drama based on people living in prison and what they do for example Prison break or orange is the new black
Investigate detective and sidekick - A drama base on an investigation with a detective and with a sidekick following them
Criminal - Focuses on a group of criminals who commit crimes for example criminal minds
Genre
Genre is a French word meaning type and they're made up of conventions(the rules of the genre),
The conventions on horror movies:
Isolated areas
Abandoned
Desolate
Intense high pitch music
Jump-scares
Conforming to the genre is a film or show that breaks the conventions in some way
Subverting(going against the genre):
example get out goes against it as they don't have the typical bad guy/monster/ghost.
Hybrid - when the tv show or movie mixes together two genres:
Life on mars
Scary movie is a horror x comedy
genres:
comedy
Fanstasy
Drama
Action
Teen titans
Documenrty
Adventure
Game of Thrones
Historical
thriller
western
Crime Drama:
The police procedural, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist, as contrasted with other genres that focus on a private investigator or amateur detective. Unlike traditional mysteries, which conceal the criminal's identity until the police solve the crime in the narrative climax (the so-called whodunnit), police procedurals often reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story or "how to catchem". Police procedurals attempt to accurately depict such police-related topics as forensic science, autopsies, gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure.
Representation is concerned with the way that people, ideas and events are presented to us,
This could be representation in magazines, news, soap operas, films and so on,
It may include representation of people, places and events,
This means that media texts are intentionally, written, framed, cropped, captioned, branded, targeted and censored by producer, and the are entirely artificial versions of the reality we perceive around us.
These are the signs that create representation: Mise-en-Scene, sound, editing, camera shots, angles, movements and positions,
social groups: Gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, class and status, physical ability/disability, regional identity,
Joc(beck) -
Popular
Mean/Rude
Bullies
Disrespectful
Funny
Pretty/Handsome
Sporty
Cocky
Blonde/Blonde
Stereotypes
Sometimes representation can turn into stereotypes
A stereotype is a simplified representation of character, appearance and belief.
A stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals
A new kind of stereotypes - a positive which could be called a counter-type. (For example, a pretty girl would be a counter-type,
Gender:
The representation of Men and Women in the media.
Women in the Media -
Beautiful, emphasise their size and physiques, sexuality, emotional dealings.
Feminism has been around for 30years but women are still portrayed in the same way.
Often represented as being part of a context,(family, friends, colleges) and working/ thinking about being part of a team.
In drama they tend to take the role of the helper or object, passive rather than active.
Men are still represented as TV drama characters up to 3 times more frequently than women, and tend to be the main focus in the TV show.
Representation of Men -
Represented as strong and tough. They are independent and masculine, power and success, sexual attractiveness and physiques, masculine for example supper man and sheldon from the big bang theory are different representation of men.
Captain america is a representation of a MAN
Age -
Rebellious team, E.G Horrid henry
Senile old man or woman,
Cradle robbing woman,
Male in mid-life crisis,
Silly old man,
Social group in schools (nerds,outcasts) e.g Mean Girls
Old people -
Old people are often subject to the mist rigid stereotypes of all (old, ugly, stupid, week).
Ethnicity -
Ethnicity is defined by a set of genetic and cultural characteristics. Representation of ethnicity in the media can consist of rigid stereotypes that are similar to gender portrayed.
there are still negative representations in the media of blacks especially younger as they're seen as gangstas, african descent:
big Nigerian mum with passion for they're food music and family
gangsters
dangerous youths
famine victims
rappers with guns, drugs and body guards
token black guy
criminal
impoverished
hero
Asian descent:
Smart/Intelligent
Ninjas/good fighters
broken english
obsessed with food including dogs and cats
quirky and can be weak
black hair and big foreheads
pokemon
love electronics
lack emotions/ don't show them
strict mums
powerful
too many of em
Middle eastern(Arabic)descent:
Terrorists/violent
very religious
physically strong
strict/stern/not a push over
serious
victims
villans/rarely seen as heroes
prejudice to jews/ hate them
White/British/American:
Powerful
often the hero
serial killers
in charge
lead roles
they like tea
Representation of sexuality: Heterosexual women:
Loving/respectable/average
promiscuous (bad for women)
frigid
pure
gold digger, pregnant teens, cougar
heterosexual man:
respectable
promiscuous (good for a guy)
ladies man, heart throb
bumbling man who has trouble talking to women
homosexual women:
Monogamous
promiscuous
embarrassed
butch
homosexual males:
Promiscuas
monogamous
overbearing
embarrassed
camp
Class and status:
Poor
Lower class
Lower middle class
Working class
Upper middle class
Upper class
Elite/Millionaires
Status symbols:
Clothing/ Lack of it
Cars
Brands
Houses/mansions
gadgets
Physical ability/Disability:
Amputes
Paralysed
Deaf
Blind
Those who are limited in how they can do(due to obesity, cancer, aids)
Those who are in good shape (superhero, average person with one specials ability, star athletes)
Regional identity: This constitutes the representation of individual from a certain geographical location. The most important question to ask yourself is how are they represented?
Costume
Setting
Staging/Acting
Depiction
Dominant representation: one that is repeated across media at all times. Meditation - Meditation is the process by which a media text represents an idea, issues or event to an audience. We are given a version if reality which is altered . Selection - Whatever ends up on the screen or on the paper, much more will have been left out. Any news story has been selected from hundreds of others which the producers decided for you were less interesting. Any picture has been chosen from an enormous number of people.
