Creative Digital Media Production Unit 1: Lesson 11

What do you think Representation means?

Some one that represents something in the story or the game

Tutor Definition
In media studies this means the way in which aspects of society are presented
to an audience by specifics

What do we call the processes of creating and understanding

representations?
Encoding: ideas and messages

Decoding: audiences being to

view these representation as
normal

What are the two ways that representations are created?

Construction: the media
construct different aspects of
reality

Selection: decides witch

elements are chosen by the
creators of the text to be
included in the text

Misfits
Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show,
on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a
community service program, where they obtain supernatural
powers after a strange electrical storm.

Violent
Disrespectful
Self-centred
Ignoring other
Stereo typical
Anti-social
Socially awkward

Watch the opening scene to Misfits. Write down how you feel
youth is represented in the scene.
How do the characters powers reflect the characters themselves?
Simon: invisible
Kelly: mind reading
Gurtis: turns back time
Alisha: making people want desire
The powers are made of the peoples personalitys

Overall how are youth being represented in Misfits?

That teenagers are bad and they dont care about anymore but them
self and they disrespect others and the people all around them, but they
are misunderstood by their familys and other friends.