Representation charlie
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The document discusses representation in a teaser trailer for a film. It focuses on appealing to a young adult target audience by featuring young actors in relatable ways. A variety of characters of the same age are represented to give audiences different options to relate to. The production company is responsible for the representations in the film. They portray some teenagers negatively as bullies but also show a variety of characters each with their own struggles to appeal to a wide young audience.
Representation charlie
- 1. REPRESENTATION Charlie Hooper
- 2. R E P R E S E N TAT I O N A N D M Y WO R K It is useful to consider representation in relation to our teaser trailer because different audiences may be more inclined to watch certain media products based on representation. Our marketing campaign was focused on appealing our teaser trailer to our young- adult target audience and so it was important that the young actors that star in our teaser where represented in a way that would appeal to the same age. We had a variety of characters of the same age represented in different ways which we thought the audience would be able to relate to.
- 3. DYER’S TYPOGRAPHY 1. What is represented? 2. How is this representative of social groups? 3. Who is responsible for the representation? 4. What does the audience make of it?
- 4. DY E R ’ S T Y P O G R A P H Y A N D OUR TEASER TRAILER 1. What is represented? The mise-en-scene of the hooded teenagers pushing and throwing cans represents that one of the characters is a victim and the rest appear to be bullies.
- 5. DYER’S TYPOGRAPHY 2. How is this representative of social groups? The hooded teenagers representing the bullies wear a very stereotypical type of clothing this type of character. This mise-en-scene represents what is negatively associated with teenagers and hoodies- youth crime. The young girl looks as if she were a friend to Kyri as shown by her running up to him rather than being intimidating towards him which is a stereotypical role of a female character in this type of genre.
- 6. DYER’S TYPOGRAPHY 3. Who is responsible for the representation? The production company for this film would most likely be a big Hollywood film company because it is a niche genre however is targeted at a large young market audience with many young well known actors and conventional situations associated with young people which may attract the audience as aspects of the story are easy to relate to. The psychological aspect of the film may also appeal towards a slightly older audience because of the artistic elements.
- 7. DYER’S TYPOGRAPHY 4. What does the audience make of it? There is a wide variety of characters of the same age in our film and are shown in the teaser trailer which may appeal to a large amount of young people because there is a high chance of being a character that the audience can relate to.
- 8. CONCLUSION The most likely audience that would watch our film would be teenagers-young adults because of the young actors and situations often seen at that age, such as bullying, which the audience may be able to relate to, as well as the other events that may happen during college. Some of the teenagers are represented in a negative way as bullies however there is a variety of characters each with their own problems.