thursday 27th janurary

In the lesson today we was tought by Miss Ashton. The lesson was about representation in tv drama.
 we learnt what representation is, it is a prsentation of a certian group or individuals in the society that is than presented via the media. as a class we was to focuse on represntation of gender in the media, to do so we had to watch eastender's, life on mars and tipping the velvet.  All of the tv drama we had been shown had a represntation of  of sterotypical gender representation

 we also learnt new media terms to be used when analysing tv drama.

IDEOLOGIES: a set of belifes, norms and values that are dominating an alternative.

STEROTYPES: media institutions use sterotypes becouse the audence would instantly understand them. think them as sterotypes as a visual shortcut, as they are repeated so often we see them as mormel or true.

ARCHITYPES:  A ultimate sterotypes for example, blonde bimbo

CONTENET STEROTYPES: a sterotypes that are chalanged


 MEN were seen dominating, powerful, tough and this was reflected in the drama life on mars and on the other two we had watched, eastenders, tipping the velvet. they all lead a stroytypes of gender as men were controling over women, they were given more pirorty.


WOMEN have a sterotype of being sexualy sabmissive, emotional, sabordentant to men, a good physic and look attractive etc. they were also refelcted in both the tv darms, life on mars this was wen the police women was neglected and didnt say anything although she was onscrean where the men were in the front and the women was shown at the background and looked less in control alsthough she was in a uniform of a police. there was a steroytpe in eastedenders aswell of womne  to be well presented, have the perfect size wheras the men looked scruffy and strong.

Although eastender's and life on mars had sterotypes on gender, tipping the velvet had diffrent representation of gender and it didnt have a sterotypes, infact it had conter sterotypes which chalanges the norms and the society views of a ceratin group and traditions. we are able to identfy this in the tv drama, tipping the velvet, women are dressed as men, have short hair and have a big role to play which chalanges the sterotypical image of women, although the domenating role of men is still practiced in the episode, this was explained when the man walked through the party with the both women either side and the posture of the man and the actions he took gave an image of dominataion over the women, and also when anather man came over spoke about the wmen in front of them but without haveing direct conversation to the women but to the man they were with this gives an impresion that the two women are owned by the man.


during the lesson we also were given a task to analyse a script from THE BOAT THAT ROCKED.