Media Representations in our Teaser Trailer

How did we represent our particular collective group?

Due to our teaser trailer being in the genre of social realism, a heavy focus is placed on how we choose the represent the social group we are choosing to shed light on. In the case of our media text, we focussed on the fragility of the male psyche in a society where expressing emotion is taboo in male culture. Indeed, it cannot be ignored that by definition, all media texts are representations of reality. We wanted to replicate what we saw in the world around us onto the characterisation of our protagonist. Media texts are intentionally composed, written, framed, cropped and targeted by their producers, and are artificial versions of the reality we perceive around us - and our media product served no exception. Media representations are a representation of someone’s concept of existence, codified into a series of signs and symbols which can be decoded by an audience. They are a fluid, two-step process: producers position a text somewhere in relation to reality and the audience assess a text based on its relationship to reality.