MIGRAIN: Introduction to Representation

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 1.) Representation is an important concept of media since it gives the audience a point or characteristic to relate and resonate with, making the piece of media almost more relatable. 

2.) The image could be cropped or changed by editing to create a different visual to what is going on in the image. The meaning can be twisted and manipulated depending on what an editor or news corporation wants to portray for audiences.

3.)All representation is the cumulative effect of a group of media language choices. Certain choices are made and others rejected. The representation is the combination of both selections and rejections. The rejected elements don't portray what producer wants to convey. The examples could be seen as genre codes for soap operas, repeated time and time again in different shows. This repetition of values and ideologies starts to feel regular to the audience. 

4.) The theory explains how audiences interpret meanings behind pieces of media that producers enforce and how these meanings are influenced and powered. 

5.) Technology has changed the way representation is portrayed in media by enabling more diversity and even more representation than before. 

6.) National identity represents things like class, ethnicity, nationality and more and can create a more acceptance of diversity however in the wrong hands can be used as propaganda with hyper national identity views. 

7.) The dominant representation in the film clip of "Luther" I think are the British characters, both due to how they are portrayed and how the setting is made to appear and be relatable towards a British audience. I think that the alternative representation is the representation of the UK's underground crime scene where it is definitively not widely accepted or even heard of but is still being represented through dialogue and showing audiences.  

8.) The representation portrayed through the film clip given in "Luther" could be seen as representation both done through a dominant lens as well as an alternative lens. The production of "Luther" creates a false. 

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