Monday, June 18, 2012

4. Discuss the effect of representation in media products on target audiences/consumers

Older Episodes
The older episodes had more of white people than any other race because there wasn't as much races in the realistic than just mainly white people. In this era there was more of working class people because of the sort of money people were earning in that era wasn't good which caused people to be put in the group of working class people. The people were older such as middled aged people because in the episodes there wasn't very young people which cause the audience to be a older age group because there was only old people in the episodes. The woman weren't treated as well as they are now because it was shown in a man's point of view which was good but it would be seen as sexism now because everyone is equal. In this era the main situation which would cause conflict between people would be that a man and woman would live together but they wouldn't be married which would have caused conflict.
A episode that is a bit newer
The episodes that were newer were more questioning of the genders seeing who's position was more important and was more in charge or equal. In this era the men were more dominate in the society because the men were to be said as the more able and hard working gender because they said that the men were the workers while the women had to stay at home while they did all the cleaning and that.

Newer episodes
The era of this was more accepting because they had people that for example came out from being gay and weren't scared of what people thought and that they could be equal to every because they were homosexual. The stereotypical view on homosexuals are that they want everything clean and are just like big children because they seem like they are just childish and always wanting to have fun which isn't correct because some homosexuals are the opposite. There was a lot of active and passive reception to people with coronation street because people either watched the programme or had it just playing in background.

Newest episode
In the newest episodes they have changed from scenes that have only had white people in them because of the era they were in a era where there was more white people in the community but it has has a change in ethnic diversity and is more of a multi-cultural society now because the show have changed it to be more realistic and because in England and the cities of England there are many different cultures, so because coronation street want more people to watch it then they have changed it to be more realistic so that it appeals to everyone. The era of the episodes also show that women are more dependent and can do what they want because in this era of the society men and women are equal unlike 50 years ago.




Trends in consumption

Trends in consumptions are when something is wanted by the public because they are wanted and the trend of the thing is increasing. One example of this is the trend of explosions which loads of the soaps started to do because explosions were demanded by the audience which caused them to put in more explosions but after a while this would cause the explosions to get boring and then the trend would be something else for example more realistic situations which would be the trend now. They would make a new trend so that the latest demand would make the ratings go high.

Influence on individuals/mass audiences

The influence on individuals would be for example teenagers are seen as people with hoodies on and are seen to be chavs and because from television programmes they portray teenagers as chavs which would have an affect on teenagers because if they are seen as chavs they might think they are. Mass audiences would be affected by representation because certain groups would been seen as something their not. For example posh people are seen as being stuck up and ignorant which has made the television soaps made posh people seem as stuck up when there are people who are posh but aren't.

Positive effects




Negative effects




No comments:

Post a Comment