An image+ a point of view= Representation.
In exploring representation you need to establish:
1. What views of people or issues are being conveyed to the audience?
2. Who is represented?
3. How far do the representations challenge or conform to dominant representation and ideologies.
Extension
How far are audiences positioned to take up a preferred view?
Hollyoaks Opening Credits
Within the opening of Hollyoaks each character gets their own setting which foreshadow's their personality and maybe something that will happen to them within the show.
1. Camera angles can be used to show a certain view of a person/people. For example an extreme close-up at the beginning, which focuses on the woman’s mouth where she is eating a cherry. This gives us the view that she is meant to be tempting and can be seen as a sex symbol. The red lipstick and cherry shows a sense of temptation and foreshadows the personality of this character to be ‘provocative’
2. The representation of people in the clip is usually focused into gender. For example women are being represented as negative figures in this opening are mostly seen as sex symbols as they’re wearing short dresses and taking apples from a tree which shows a connotation of the tree of temptation showing that this character does something she shouldn't have just like Adam & Eve. The men are seen as ‘cool’ and strong and are seen having a lot of women around them which we can connotate to make them to seem like players.
The Tudors opening
In the opening of The Tudors we see the camera angles following one man around and basing all the camera angles on this one particular man whether it's a point of view shot or just a closeup. The camera angles show him to be focused and strong and even powerful with the people following him.
Men are represented as being strong, angry/aggressive and as leaders. The show itself conforms into the expectation of the Tudor times. The men are quite powerful and leading with high social status. Even when the man is stabbed a few times he still tries to fight and the others stab him without hesitation showing that the men were expected to be strong and angry. The representations of the men in the opening do conform to the dominant representation and ideology of the era that the program was meant to be set in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?index=2&feature=PlayList&v=P9ck6aa00LA&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F
In the opening of The Tudors we see the camera angles following one man around and basing all the camera angles on this one particular man whether it's a point of view shot or just a closeup. The camera angles show him to be focused and strong and even powerful with the people following him.
Men are represented as being strong, angry/aggressive and as leaders. The show itself conforms into the expectation of the Tudor times. The men are quite powerful and leading with high social status. Even when the man is stabbed a few times he still tries to fight and the others stab him without hesitation showing that the men were expected to be strong and angry. The representations of the men in the opening do conform to the dominant representation and ideology of the era that the program was meant to be set in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?index=2&feature=PlayList&v=P9ck6aa00LA&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F
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