Learning objective:
Explore the representation of settings in the Media and describe how different geographical markers are used and represented in the media.
Key terms:
Geographical markers - easily recognisable settings that let the audience know where the narrative takes place. For example; Buckingham Palace, tells the audience the text is set in London.
Temporal markers - easily recognisable iconography that lets the audience know when the narrative takes place. For example; a mini skirt tells the audience the text is set in the 1960's.
By giving audiences information, media texts extend the experience of reality.
Every time you see a wildlife documentary, or read about political events in a country on the other side of the world, or watch a movie about a historical event, you extend your experience of life on this planet.
However, because the producers of the media text have selected the information we receive, then our experience is restricted: we only see selected highlights of the lifestyle of the creatures portrayed in the wildlife documentary, the editors and journalists decree which aspects of the news events we will read about, and the movie producers telescope events and personalities to fit into their own parameters.
When a text is set in a particular place then the producer needs to consider;
1. How the audience will be informed of the setting.
2. What the connotations of the setting might be for the audience.
Task 1:
Look at the following images and write what audiences would expect to happen at the settings .
Consider:
The history of the setting.
What the connotations are for the setting.
What text genre would be set here? Include the character types that an audience may expect.
- Setting is the location, where a film is being set to make it conventional to the genre it belongs to.
This is scene from a thriller film called 'Saw'.
Explore the representation of settings in the Media and describe how different geographical markers are used and represented in the media.
Key terms:
Geographical markers - easily recognisable settings that let the audience know where the narrative takes place. For example; Buckingham Palace, tells the audience the text is set in London.
Temporal markers - easily recognisable iconography that lets the audience know when the narrative takes place. For example; a mini skirt tells the audience the text is set in the 1960's.
By giving audiences information, media texts extend the experience of reality.
Every time you see a wildlife documentary, or read about political events in a country on the other side of the world, or watch a movie about a historical event, you extend your experience of life on this planet.
However, because the producers of the media text have selected the information we receive, then our experience is restricted: we only see selected highlights of the lifestyle of the creatures portrayed in the wildlife documentary, the editors and journalists decree which aspects of the news events we will read about, and the movie producers telescope events and personalities to fit into their own parameters.
When a text is set in a particular place then the producer needs to consider;
1. How the audience will be informed of the setting.
2. What the connotations of the setting might be for the audience.
Task 1:
Look at the following images and write what audiences would expect to happen at the settings .
Consider:
The history of the setting.
What the connotations are for the setting.
What text genre would be set here? Include the character types that an audience may expect.
1. Buck house
2. Cairo street
3. Oxford UK
4. Times Sq. NYC
5. Eiffel Tower
Setting and iconography
What is setting?- Setting is the location, where a film is being set to make it conventional to the genre it belongs to.
- Setting is important in thriller because it makes the movie more conventional to its genre and can create a number of different connotations based on just one location and how it looks.
For example, when a movie is being set in the forest with a house in the middle of nowhere, an old isolated looking house, this would help the audience understand the genre of this movie.
For example, when a movie is being set in the forest with a house in the middle of nowhere, an old isolated looking house, this would help the audience understand the genre of this movie.
For example, the connotations of the house would be haunted, abandoned, isolated, death, rape, loneliness etc. Even though the denotation of the setting is just an old house.
This scene is being set in a factory basement, the location suggests to the audience ideas of feelings of isolation and that the genre of the movie is thriller related, this helps to create fear and build suspense. The setting also helps the audience to anticipate that something horrific might occur here.
In addition, the iconography in this scene; blood, has connotations. Perhaps the character is being torture or brutally attacked. This would appeal to the target audience who expect this from the narrative when they are aware of the setting.
Task 2:
Write at least 200 words on the typical setting from the following genres:
Sci-Fi thriller
Action thriller
Psychological thriller
Crime thriller
Give examples of texts from that genre and discuss the connotations of each setting.
Extension: List the iconography associated with each genre.
Extended writing: Research how wealthy people on holiday are represented in the Media.
Extended writing: Research how wealthy people on holiday are represented in the Media.
Discussion
Hawn's celebrity image has for many years focused on how young she looks for her age, and here she is being taken to task not only for a lack of taste (celebrities are supposed to be constantly fashionable and are regularly castigated for lapses), but because of age-inappropriate dressing. Most of the instances where magazines turn moralistic about appearance in this way concern female celebrities. It is an indication of the continuing force of an ideology that holds women as embodied, that is determined by their physical being, far more than is the case for men.Discussion Hawn's celebrity image has for many years focused on how young she looks for her age, and here she is being taken to task not only for a lack of taste (celebrities are supposed to be constantly fashionable and are regularly castigated for lapses), but because of age-inappropriate dressing. Most of the instances where magazines turn moralistic about appearance in this way concern female celebrities. It is an indication of the continuing force of an ideology that holds women as embodied, that is determined by their physical being, far more than is the case for men.- Despite the extravagant lifestyle of the stars, elements such as the rags-to-riches motif and romance as an enactment of the problems of heterosexual monogamy suggest that what is important about the stars, especially in their particularity, is their typicality or representativeness. Stars, in other words, relate to the social types of a society.
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