Blog #5- Representation of Teens in the Media..continued...

Media text Creation

     If I had the opportunity to create any media text I would probably make a music video. I think it would be really cool to make a music video because you would have so much freedom and so many things and people to work with. If this text were going to be including teenagers, I would include values, wants, desires and fears such as; young love and friendship. I think these two things are both things most teens strive for but at the same time are scared of. When people think of teens I think they usually think of having fun, careless, no responsibilities, partying etc. So I would include things like these in the video too. I would do this because it would be relatable for teenagers, who are watching it, and if not relatable it would include desires and wants that they have which would attract them to watching it and hopefully liking it. I think that parents and older people would relate to the music video because this is the impression that they have of teenagers. 

     Most media pieces use a lot of the same signs and symbols, some like: wealth, glamour, good-looking people, love, power etc. I think some like; good-looking/attractive actors/actresses, love, money and glamour, would be affective in the media piece I would be creating because these signs and symbols are things that attract audiences. They are all factors that people like to see, because they are values and wants’ that people look for and believe. If it was any music video I was creating I would want it to be for a young up and coming teen star, who I believe is a role model and not a celebrity who influences the world negatively. The music video would be the story of how a friendship, between a guy and a girl at the start of high school, grows into a relationship by graduation and the song would be something about growing up and changing. It would show friendships, high school cliques, steps of a relationship, and other things that are affecting teenagers between ages 14-18. I think a video that could include this sort of thing would do really well, because if it shows a story it will attract more people watch and pay attention to it, and if it included such things a ton of teens would enjoy it because it would represent a variety of things that we all are going through/facing. 

Blog #5- Representation of Teens in the Media

Name of Media Text

Gossip Girl

It represents teens as . . .

High class, private school students, socialize all the time, lives full of drama between one and other, provocative and the view of teenagers is portrayed as them acting/being much older (mature, experienced etc.) then they are

It is accurate/inaccurate because . . .

Completely inaccurate because there is only a small group of teens who probably live like this, this is an exaggerated description of a teenager, since not all go to private school and are wealthy

Symbols and signs

- Fancy appearance

- Wealthy

- New York

- Attractive

- Power (high class people)

- Older, mature

Name of Media Text

Miley Cyrus- Who owns my heart, music video

It represents teens as . . .

Very sultry and sexual, girls are provocative, seductive and promiscuous and dress very scandalous, shows young people going out and clubbing and living glamorous life styles

It is accurate/inaccurate because . . .

This is both accurate and inaccurate, it is accurate because a few teens live like this; they party and go out and dress up, but there is also a huge amount that don't live like this. The way teens are portrayed in this video is such a typical view of what others think teens are like

Symbols and signs

- Love/Lust

- Sexual tension

- Girl and guy contact/relationships

- Acting older

- Shows female desires (wealth, men, dressing up, going out)

Name of Media Text

The Cool Collection, 2007 Prom (Seventeen magazine ad)

It represents teens as . . .

It represents teen girls as people who are dependent of guys, this is shown because the girl is leaning on the guys, it also represents that teens are in relationships with the opposite sex, this ad also gives people a image of what teenage girls and guys look like. It show two good looking people, they are both American/white, the girl is very typical looking wearing pink and she had blond hair and the guy is an average looking guy

It is accurate/inaccurate because . . .

It is very inaccurate because many teenagers are not in relationships and are not dependent on guys at this age, it is also inaccurate

Symbols and signs

- Classy

- Attractive people

- Wealth

- Guy and girl attraction

Blog #4- Reflection

      I worked with Gabby Lucey on this assignment. We decided to do an advertisement for an energy drink. We thought that this advertisement would work well on the side of a bus so it could be seen by a variety of people. Our ad uses olympic athlete Emma Snowsill to advertise for the drink. In our ad we chose to market, empowerment of women. We show Emma Snowsill throughout her life competing in some races and being behind the boys/males. We show her as a black figure to emphasize that she is in the shadow or dust of the males. But in the last picture, it is Emma Snowsill winning first place with our energy drink, Ambition, in her hand. We used media constructs reality and media contains value messages. Media constructs reality in our advertisement because we suggest that by drinking our energy drink you will have the power to win first place when obviously in reality one will not defiantly always win. Our ad also contains value messages because it implies that winning is the most important thing, winning is the thing everyones strives for and that being in the background is not good enough. I also believe we included the ad techniques properly in our ad. We used testimonial and bandwagon. Testimonial is when you use a celebrity or icon to endorse your product. We did this by using runner, Emma Snowsill to convince people that to win races she drinks our energy drink. Bandwagon is when you make people think they will be happier or cooler if you have the product you are selling or when you apply it to anyones desires (such as winning, like we did in our ad). In the layout of our advertisement. We put the main focus on the girl athlete, she is larger then the other characters in the images, she is a black figure and she is in the foreground in each picture.
     We equally contributed to the project and split the work very equally. We worked together on the proposal, as i created the product and idea for our media piece, Gabby did the target market, client and main drawings for our advertisement. We put it all together equally, and i think it turned out pretty well. I think we worked very well on this together on this assignment, created an interesting idea and planned the proposal of our advertisement well.