In our first media theory lesson this term we looked at how men and women are represented in TV and film and how they are represented differently in each. We talked about how men are presented as quite unintelligent when featured on TV. They are usually the people who add the comedy to the TV show, whereas women are shown as being quite intelligent and are usually the person who has to look after the male. A good example of the could be, 'The Middle' and 'The Simpsons' both of these show a family where the males (son and the father) are not very smart and are the cause for the problem in the shows. The females (daughter and the mother) are the responsible ones who are usually the people who have to solve the problems that the males could have caused.
In films men and women are represented very differently, men are usually the main role of the film and are usually quite muscular and smart. They tend to control what is going on in the films and they stereotypically the hero of the narrative. Women on the other hand tend to be a supporting role that may help the male with their task, they contribute a whole lot less to the narrative but they usually look up to the male. A test was created to try and get women to be more of a central role in the film, this test is called the 'Bechdel Test'. In order to pass this test the film has to include two different females that talk to each other about something other than a man for over 60 seconds.
YouGov Profile
Another thing we looked at on our first lesson was newspapers and how they write articles to appeal to their specific audiences. To found out what kind of audience they were targeting we went on a site called, 'YouGov' as seen above, it gave us an overview on the people most likely to read the newspaper. The Sun are known for there over exaggerated articles that tend to not tell the complete truth. Looking at their YouGov profile we found out that their audience tends to be of the young adult variety and are quite argent, this might be one of the main reasons why The Suns articles are the way they are. I think that information provided by 'YouGov' is not reliable due to only around 100-1000 people putting forward their data on each newspaper.It states 'Top Regions' however that may not be the 'Top Regions' and may just be where they received the most information from.
Debate
In our second lesson this term we were told that we were going to do a debate that argued about, 'Can anyone be a journalist?' for this debate we were arguing 'for' the statement. Our group decided that we should go to local library to try and find some information to back up our argument. After a few minutes of trying to find some books that were relevant to what we were talking about we decided to read up on what some people had to say.
When we finally came back to college to start our debate, we had realized that we had forgotten to write down notes. This put us at a massive disadvantage, one top of that we realized that we had gotten confused and read up research for the arguing against. This being a silly mistake on our part, we had learned that for our next debate we would have to make sure we know what we are arguing for and to write down quite a lot of note so we are prepared for the debate. To no ones surprise we didn't become victorious in the debate but we did learn a lot from the experience and will be more prepared for our next debate.
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