Super.Humans (Audiences, Representation and Social/Cultural Context)

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  • Super.Humans revision
    • Purpose Of Advert
      • challenge accepted ideas
      • realistic representations of the every day life
      • athletes first rather than a person with disabilities' doing their best'
    • Visual codes
      • body language (see performance)
      • setting
        • cafe and home settings
          • creates realism
        • gym, track, swimming pool
          • a code that quickly places the athletes into their sports that audiences recognise
    • Levi Strauss (Binary opp)
      • persistence vs giving up
      • dreamlike sequences to sounds of alarms
      • animated vs real life actions
        • adds humour and narrative
    • Audio Codes
      • So You Wanna Be A Boxer
        • non diegetic
        • older audiences familiar from bugsy malone
        • connotations of struggle but still upbeat
      • struggle shown through diegetic sounds like grunting and heavy breathing
        • juxtaposed with sounds of everyday life e.g.: baby cry
    • Context
      • cultural
        • Channel 4 addresses the unrepresented social group
      • social
        • athletes are human rather than super and they are neither victims or heroes who have 'overcome' disabilities
      • George Gerbner
        • audiences may have become used to conventions of these adverts and therefore become immune to the purpose
          • this advert challenges Gerbner's theory
            • audience question their assumptions because the advert offers refreshing and realistic outlooks
    • Audience Positioning
      • is the way you are made to feel in the media product
      • music
        • So You Wanna Be A Boxer
          • non diegetic
          • older audiences familiar from bugsy malone
          • connotations of struggle but still upbeat
      • Technical codes e.g.: editing
        • close up shots show strength and determination, followed by low angles - power
        • cuts between harsh regime and cartoons
          • lightens the mood and engages through humour
      • performance (body lang, facial expressions)
    • David Gauntlett's theory of identity
      • people with disabilities see themselves in a positive light
      • more diverse and inclusive range of identities
        • broadens understanding of disabilities
    • Stuart Hall: Reception theory
      • meanings communicated through signs
        • stereotyping occurs when there are inequalities in power
          • people with disabilities are constructed as different
      • men and women with disabilities that are distinct from each other are shown
        • avoids simplifying representations

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