For my critical investigation I will be looking at the representation of male teengaers in the media. To be specific, I will also be looking at those teenagers who are involved in gangs and street crime. This this will hopefully allow me to explore any wider concepts that I will need to cover.
Linked Production..
As a linked production to this investigation my other group member and I will be creating a short documentary on teenagers that are involved in gangs. we have come up with a number of locations for this which we feel will help our documentary a lot. This documentary will look in to how and why teenagers comit these crimes and why they associate with gangs.
Migrain Analysis..
Media Language..
The use of the camera angles will be a factor as i will be analysing teenage movies such as "kidulthood" and "adulthood" which will hopefully help me when we are doing our documentary. Sound will also be playing a role in our documentary as this will help the target audience identify the genre easier. Finally, the use of the lighting will have an influence in our documentary whether it is high or low key lighting I believe that it would be important as it would show the importance of that particular person or group.
Institution..
I will be researching if there are any institutions that may have produced a documentary on teenagers particularly those that are invloved in gangs or street crime and the sort of patterns they follow in order to make it as successful one.
Genre..
For both of my critical investigation and linked production I will be looking at the movies of kidulthood and adulthood as our documentary will have the same themes from this. I believe that these types of movies can really help us portray the type of genre it would be and the types of target audience we will be targeting.
Representation..
I will be looking at the stereotypes of teenagers (males in particular) from the two movies that i have mensioned above which will further our ideas for our documentary. I will also be looking at whether teenage males are stereotyped accurately from other aspects of the media or if its just in British Uk movies.
Audience..
As far as the audience is concerned we will be trying to have an active audience view which means that we will be becoming more and more passive in order for the target audience to be active viewers. Even though we will be interacting with the audience our aim is to send out a message to them regarding male teenagers and the representations of them. in the critical investigation i will be looking at both primary and secondary audience as they will want to know if the stereotypes are true or false ones and for the primary audience teenagers would want to watch it as they will be the protagonsits of this documentary.
Ideology..
I will be looking at a certain instition from a written media and their articles on teenagers and seeing how their view could have an impact on other teenagers. I will also be looking at how male teenagers tend to have that final say if you like over either the opposite sex or even the same sex. This is known as patriarchal society which is a dominant ideology which could be advertised through other British documentaries.
Narrative..
For both of my critical investigation and linked production i will be trying to answer a lot of these questions that might have been raised during the making of my documentary. To the build of this you could say that their might be some enigma codes in terms of why are there sort of negative stereotypes of teenagers especially those that are invloved in gangs. I will be also trying to find the differences between those teenagers involved in gangs and those that are not. you could say that this could be binary opposistion by trying to retrieve as much information as you can to those that do not relate in gangs and to those that are in gangs.
Current Issues And Debates..
Throughout my linked production and my critical investigation I will be looking at the raise of moral panics. this will not just involve those that partiscipate in gangs and street crimes but also those that actually don't. To define Moral Panic, Moral Panic is a term which is used to describe a problem which is widely reported in the media. my critical investigation part will be focusing on the representation of male teenagers along with the gangs and street crimes that involve in this and if this really reflects on todays society. the theorists of news values which are Gultang and ruge will be taken into account as their theory is all about the news values. there might be certain stories or debates in the movies such as kidulthood and adulthood which teenagers have negative stereotypes of them.
Media Theories..
I believe that media theories are important when looking into the representation of teenagers whether they are male or female in movies or documentaries. I will also be looking into with greater detail the uses of gratification theory. another media theory that i will be looking at is gender theory. As this involves looking into feminism, post feminism and also male gaze that teenagers who walk around in gangs causing street crime will attract a lot of people.
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