Application of key concepts: representation

 



The purpose of making this story board was to tell a story about a person walking to the shops and to explore and analyse the way they are represented as well as including the basic shot types and conventions.
I chose a housewife to be my character in my story because I am aware of the conventions which surround a stereotypical housewife and I could show this through the analysis of costume and personality: traditionally, housewives are represented as pretty, neat and tidy, polite and inferior to the male.
This exploration into representation helped me understand fully the concept of sterotypes and how the media presents them and also reminded me of how media breaks away from certain stereotypes in society.
In my final product there is going to be some characters silmilar to a traditional housewife such as a nurse and psychiatric carer- the research into the representation of a housewife will help me when it comes to my group making informed decisions on how to present our characters.