REPRESENTATION
The way in which people are portrayed in the media - presenting something to an audience with a particular slant or agenda. Nothing in the media is wholly real and true - audiences are constantly shown imitations of reality and the world around them.
As media students, our job is to work out what agenda creators have and why we're being shown the things on screen:
- WHAT IS YOUR AGENDA?
- WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME THIS?
HOW DOES THAT APPLY TO ATB?
Attack the block presents a certain number of situations, people and issues such as:
- SOUTH LONDON
- CULTURE
- DRUG CULTURE
- RACE
- CLASS
STEREOTYPES IN ATB
A key aspect of media representation. Stereotypes are used in ATB and then undermined later, implying that the film makers believe these stereotypes to be shallow and false. In the film, we can spot stereotypes such as:
- A GANG OF YOUTHS ATTACKING SOMEONE
- STONERS
- INNOCENT WHITE WOMAN
- SCARY DRUGLORD
- ALIENS FROM SPACE ATTACK EARTH
MISE-EN-SCENE AND REPRESENTATION
Mise-en-scene simply means 'what's on screen' - obviously, this plays a big role in representation. In ATB:
- SOUTH LONDON COUNCIL ESTATE REPRESENTED REALISTICALLY, NO GLAMOUR
- COSTUMES NOT GLAMOROUS, ACCURATE
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