Areas of representation exam

Areas of representation

Age
Different programmes are appealing to different ages groups because of the narrative, different age groups are represented in TV dramas becasue it allows a larger audience group. When watching a programme about young people you would see the sterotype of: partying, sleeping, relationships, fall outs with friends,college, smoking and drink....etc personality traits you expect is bitch, energtic, over confident, shy, geeky, niave,care free. While older people are reperented in jobs, with families, children, more sophsicticated, hobby, bird watching, less energtic, knowledge. Old people like soap operas, While you people like dramas and comedies. adults on skins they are as confused as the younger people (countertype). characters on hollyoaks and misfits are messed up partying an dbreaking the law (archetype)

Ethnicity
when people are represented for the colour of their skins and where they were from. for example homeland a white american coming a muslim and his wife doesnt like it and that shows the conflict between their background and the expetance of people in a whole different culture.the pasific they all have a properganda saying that the japanese arent human and they are savages but later they find out they are just like them and they come to exeptance. lots of programmes show lots of people from different background so they arent seem as racist.

Sexuality
a sterotypical gay person is a person into fashion and camp such as from glee. they have hand movements. in a lesbian couple they think that a lesbian will be butch with short hair and in a relationship there will be a butch one and a feminie one but when its two gay men then they can both be camp and feminie. there are programmes that show the church would kick them out. a bia girl would be seen as possible someone who would want to be in a threesome. (lads intrest)

Disablity and Ability
show as physical and mental in the media, for example recently there has been paraolympics and that is covered more than the actual olympics. we see a lot more disablity shown on tv than ever before. disability can be represented in postive or negative light, they become isolated in the programme or they become more sucessful than other that have their natural ablilitesabilities. programmes such as hollyoaks.

Social Class
Social class is how you expect a show if its a high social class then they will have posh accents, big houses and lots of money like on Downton Abbey. Also then there is counsel etaste people who are of a lower class and they are sterotyped as chavs, drinking, smoking, having sexual relations with lots of people with foul language and going against the law. e.g. misfits, shamelss and water loo road. countertype is 90210 because even with all their wealth they still act as though they are lower class by the parties and sexual interaction.

Gender
most tv dramas women are represented as nice and girly, classy, at home all the time like on eatenders. men are usually thought of tough buisness men who are loud and go out drinking in the pub. women at home men out working. in eastenders. men do dodgy dealing are in charge. but there are tv shows when it completely contrasts against the sterotypes of gender. but normally in TV dramas there are very strong representation