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Final Regional and National Identity (London, Essex, Cornwall)
Final Regional and National Identity (London, Essex, Cornwall)
Final Regional and National Identity (London, Essex, Cornwall)
Or Q3
Gender (Blog)
Ethnicity (Blog)
Age (Blog)
Issues
Events
Regional and National Identities
AIM Provide overview and explore 3
contrasting examples from a range of
media forms.
Rich texts
Texts that you can use for more than one area
of the specification
E.g London Riots
age,
ethnicity,
gender,
Events
regional
.As well as audience responses and targeting
Starter
What area do you belong to?
Wales? Britain? Europe? Town?
Village? Region?
Or do you define yourself (your
identity) by age, sex, gender, race,
family, friends or religion?
What is Britishness?
Do Britons share
One language?
One region?
One religion?
One race?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
4-S8n8-9RU#t=52
Understanding regional
identity
Northerners
Stereotype= Northern
Monkeys, Loud rude,
drink a lot and of a
lower status
Costume= Track suit
or cheap/casual clothes
Dialogue/dialect=
Vowel sounds overpronounced
Make up= Over the top
or minimal
Class/Status= Low
Southerners
Stereotype= Poncy
Southerners arrogant and posh
- Dialogue/dialect= Well spoken
the rain in Spain falls mainly
on the plain
-Costume= Suit and tie,
tailored clothing and dresses
-Props= Brief case
-Make up= Classy and to a
minimum
-Class/Status= Middle/Upper
Scottish
Stereotype= Humourless, hate
other nations, alcoholic and
violent
Dialogue/dialect= Strong accent
'och' 'wee'
Costume= Kilt, tartan, Tam o'
Shanter
Location= Highlands, cold and
vast open spaces
Props= Bagpipes, haggis, whisky
Make up= Ginger hair and freckles
Class/Status= Lower class
(farmers)
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=fp-jVwBGUsI
Welsh
Stereotype= Small ,dark
haired people who play all
rugby, sing in choirs, herd
sheep or mine coal
Dialogue/dialect= Very songlike and melodic, slow and
exaggerated pronunciation
Costume= Rugby shirts
Location= Rugby pitch,
church, pub, fields with sheep
Props= Sheep
Make up= Minimal
Class/Status= Middle/Lower
Scousers
Stereotype= Dangerous ;
Why does the river Mersey
run through Liverpool? If it
walked it would get mugged
- Dialogue/dialect= Flemmy,
difficult to understand; 'like'
prominent k's
-Costume= Tracksuits, very
casual cheap looking clothing
-Location= Pub/home
-Props= Cheap looking
jewellery
-Make up= Minimal, or OTT
-Class/Status= Low
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=STIvNjWobzA
Yorkshire
- Dialogue/dialect= 'Ey up,
An' Ah'll tell thi that fer
nowt, dont pronounce ts
Costume= Flat caps, tweed
jackets
Location= Open fields,
country pubs, Local shops
Props= Whippets/Yorksire
terrier and Yorkshire
puddings
Make up= Minimal/pale
http://www.youtube.com
Class/Status= Low (farmers) /watch?v=jzAD2GLfaNU
Geordies
Stereotype= Loud, swear a lot,
party animals and binge
drinkers (help coined by Geordie
Shore)
Dialogue/dialect= way eye
man, difficult to understand
Costume= Revealing, tight
clothing
Location= Busy town centres,
clubs, urban areas
Make up= Over the top, fake
tan, dark hair
Class/Status= Lower middle/
middle
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6PVQbnvv79I
Mancs
Stereotype= Loud, rude, funny and fond
of fighting (Helped coined by Oasis)
Dialogue/dialect= Oh, aye Nowt
Costume= Manchester United
Shirt
Location= Busy town centres
Class/Status= Low/lower
middle
Brummies
Stereotype= Unintelligent
and unfriendly
Dialogue/dialect= 'Yow'
heavily pronunciation the
'ow' of 'You'
Costume= Casual/ Cheao
Location= Busy,
industrialised centres
Make up= Greasy hair
Class/Status= Low
London
Classic Drama
Film
Skyfall
TV
south-east London
Soap: Eastenders
Music video
Music video
Sport: Olympics
Economics
Politics
Fashion
Representation 1:
dangerous
Recycle your knowledge!
Top Boy (C4 drama) trailer?
(Representation of ethnicity/ teens).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe
IEogaPLr0
Youngers (Drama/comedy) TV?
(Representation of teens).
TEXT 1 - TOPBOY
Dominant representation of London represented as an dangerous,
urban place
Montage of establishing shots depict the mise-en-scene of the
Summerhouse neighbourhood as an undesirable place (the frameworks
of the buildings connote prison like bars)
Visual codes consist of drugs, a black man carrying a knife and a black
person abducted, which together construct an iconography of crime
(Alvarado black people represented as dangerous and pitied)
Technical codes: tracking shot of a boy getting chased by a villain honing
in on his target, London as a dangerous place + zoomed in shots of the
drug dealer protagonist to position him as an intimidating character
Audio codes: the grime/electronic music connotes an exotic sound which
suggests this region of London is multicultural
Protagonist: I havent got nothing else to be except this no future
aspirations for people living in this urban region of London
REPRESENTATION 2: POSH
TEXT 2 - MADE IN CHELSEA POSTER
REPRESENTATION 2: POSH
TEXT 2 - MADE IN CHELSEA POSTER
Scripted RTV show (for E4).
Filmed in Knightsbridge (thats where
Harrods is).
OTHER POSTER
REPRESENTATION 3: PATRIOTIC,
ROYALIST, TRADITIONAL
Text 3: The Olympics Opening Ceremony (not all 3
hours!).
James Bond and the Queen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AS-dCdYZbo
REGION 2
SHUT UUUUP.ESSEX
TOWIE
What Representations did you find?
LAST NIGHT
EASTENDERS/ CLACTON BED SIT TOWN,
BRITAIN - ROSS KEMP: EXTREME WORLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgZ22BwPhtM
cheap, rented accommodation' where
seasidetownsbecomebed-sitghettos.
In the final episode of the series, Ross takes a
look at an issue slightly closer to home - on
Britain's coast.
Film/
DVD
Cover
2013
ESSEX
Stereotype= Image conscious,
unintelligent, love to shop and
party
Stereotype coined by TOWIE
(The Only Way is Essex)
Dialogue/dialect= 'Shut up' 'Oh
my God' = common phrases
Costume: Girls= Revealing/OTT
Boys: Fashionable
Location= Clubs and boutiques
Props: Expensive, flashy, tacky
handbags, up to date mobile
phone
Make up= Fake tan, fake
eyelashes and hair extensions
Class/Status= Lower Middle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_
vTzuZk1OHA
Novembe
r 2011's
edition
KEY THEORISTS
Theorist Andrew Higson (1998) writes; Identity is generally
understood to be the shared identity of naturalized inhabitants of
a particular political-geographic space this can be a particular
nation or region.
CONSTRUCTING IMAGES OF
REGIONAL/NATIONAL IDENTITY:
According to Higson (1989) there are two ways in
which the process of constructing images of
national/regional identity should be understood;
The first involves an inward looking
process, defining the nation in terms of its
own cultural history. The second is a more
outward-looking process, defining the
nation in terms of its difference from
others.
HOMEWORK (BLOG)
USING YOUR OWN DETAILED EXAMPLES EXPLORE THE REPRESENTATIONS OF LONDON OR
ESSEX.IN THE MEDIA TODAY
REGION 3
Cornwall
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=N4AEHEv
hPxA
http://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=mkWD8RgpJ1s
http://www.theg
uardian.com/soc
iety/2010/may/1
6/newquay-cornw
all-police-teen
agers
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/sep/28/mank
ini-ban-newquay-crime-stag-parties
HOMEWORK (BLOG)
USING YOUR OWN DETAILED EXAMPLES EXPLORE THE REPRESENTATIONS OF.IN THE MEDIA
TODAY
EastEnders
Shameless
TrainSpotting/Braveheart/Monarch of the Glen
Doc Martin
Emmerdale
Manchester - Mancunians, or
Mancs
Liverpool Scousers
For Regional Identity in Emmer dale we shall look at this clip for
examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01QQB_nrOtU
Views at 0.30 show that the setting is in the country and we see straight
away that all the views we see are all of this manor also/
We see that the clothes and possessions (van) show low class as the
clothes look old and used as the van that the women is driving does too.
We know that they either run or live on a barn as when they open the
barn we see a lot of sheep , which can only really be in the country which
backs up our other beliefs.
We then see people decorating a house which we can see was very old
by the dcor for example the curtains are very countrified which means
that if the house was oringinally decorated as if it was in the country it is
probably in the country.
We then see the sheep again and the farm surroundings which is
repeated throughout which only drums in the fact that they are in the
country and that that is their regional identity.