Real Nazi Zombies
This is real nazi zombies based on the Call of Duty mini-game. I use different guns and weapons to destroy the Nazi Zombies that are invading the house.
El Tit
This video is called El Tit (title Backwards) because the whole video is in reverse!
Katy Perry- Teenage Dream (parody)
This is a parody of Katy Perry – Teenage dream about fraudulent benefit claimees.
Made in Dagenham: Ford Consul Capri 315
This is a Ford Consul Capri 315, it was made in dagenham and we have been restoring it.
How To: A guide to keeping Chickens
These are the two Chickens I have in my back garden. They lay Eggs everyday and help keep the garden free of snails and slugs. This is a short how to video on keeping chickens.
Explore an “unfair” representation of a contemporary social group you have studied in at least 2 media platforms
The contempory social group I have chosen to explore is that of the ‘teenager’, a group who I feel closely linked to and who are more often than not represented unfairly across a field of media texts.
The first thing I would like to highlight is that the word ‘teenager’ has become an umberella for social outcast, troublesome youths. Whenever the word teenager, or ’teen’, is used in the media the reference is normally to a negative representation of the group and will probably be followed by a story involving sex, drugs and antisocial behaviour. Whereas If the youth has accomplished something positive it is reported under a different umberella therefore creating a social wall between the antisocial ‘teens’ and accomplished young people.
Recently we looked at several newspapers to find evidence to support the fact that the term teenager had been coined by the newsprint media platform to refer to negative social activities of young people. To support this point we found that in the same paper a 19 year old man was referred to as a ‘teen’ when it was reported that he had been involved in a gang related stabbing. However a younger 17 year old boy was reffered to as a young man when he was credited with a world record feat of walking the north pole. This clearly categorises the negative under the banner ‘teenager’ and the positive under any other relevant term for the persons age group. This example is not an unfair representation of the stories, because the man involved in the gang crime is clearly a negative aspect of social life. The unfair representaion is of the teeangers as a social group. The 17 year old also comes under the category teenager as do many other people who have achieved great feats in the teen age bracket, yet they are set apart from this social group leaving onlookers to see all people who come under the conventional umberella of being a teenager – aged 13 to 19- as a discredit to society.
The second media platform I would like to consider is the television programme. I have studied and analysed two programmes, one from each end of the social perspective. The first, The Inbetweeners, follows four sixth formers as they tackle the minefield of of the teenage social world, and try to mould themselves into the adults they wish to become in the future. So far there have been two televised series and the third is in production and the programme is a comedy. The second programme is ‘Skins’. This follows a larger spectrum of the social range in a drama style. Although it shows also how these teens tackle the problems of their social world, it depicts the darker side of teenage life.
The Inbetweeners is a small social group of boys each with a different personality but their differences and flaws make the group accessible to the audience. The First episode follows a boy named Will, who has moved to the school and by first impressions he is a bit of an outcast. The episode shows how the three other boys reluctantly accept him into their group, but in doing so also extend an invitation to all members of the audience, displaying that the group is an easy one to fit into and they will accept anyone. In the following episodes of the fist and second series’ the audience tags along as the boys go through their first and second terms of year 12 and so witness all the events, from going to a theme park to getting girls, as the boys do.
On ther hand the ‘Skins’ group is much larger and more intimidating to the audience. The appearance of the members of the group is harsh compared to the subtle, casual individualities of the inbetweeners. The storylines also follow a more sinister side of the characters lives involving binge drinking, drugs, crime and sex. All combining in parts of the series in an iconic ‘Skins Party’.
If we simply analyse the opening sequences of the two shows, both televised on channel four which is renowned for it controversial programmes, it becomes obvious to the audience which end of the spectrum each show represents. The inbetweeners opening consists of the main characters in playful cartoon silhouettes over a plain background consisting of cartoon stars, circles and stripes in primary colours. The stop motion editing combined with the casual mise en scen the boys code of dress creates immediately let the audience know the group is laid back and accepting.
The skins opening sequence however displays several harsh images of members of the group smoking, taking drugs and expeirmenting sexually. The images are also in normal film giving the audience the impression that this is reality for the characters. These elements make the audience feel wary of getting close to the people of the group and repels them from attempting to become to intimate.
We can therefore conclude that the media enjoys splitting the true teenage group intotwo sections. One of negative representations, which comes under the title ‘teenager’ and is reflected in the way onlookers treat the members of the group, in an unfriendly disaproving fashion. And the members of the group that do not conform to the stereotypes of a teenager in behaviour and dress are either treated as a member of the group or a welcome outsider.
My Magazine advert
This is an advert for the music video I made for ‘Smash TV’ by Chase & Status.
It shares many conventions and is in the same style as the CD Cover I made for the track.
