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Media Pitch #2

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Media Pitch

Genre

• Mystery
• Drama, leaning towards a serious teen drama.

Unique Selling Point

• Close to the real world
• Real, teenage issues with modern media
• Use of Snapchat, SnapMaps, to represent current media and include new technology that young audiences will recognise. 
• Include political issues; Trump supporters and opposers. 

Narrative ideas

• Trump report on the news on TV (current affairs), …
• Messages on snapchat
• Including SnapMap, the location of the person messaging her
• Psychopath, getting closer and closer on SnapMap
• The girl is shown in isolation, nobody to turn to
• Scenes of distressed girl 
• End scene with her hiding, and the tension building

Representation

Levi Strauss and his idea of binary opposition. 

Laura Mulvey and her idea of the male gaze, the theory that woman are objectified and seen as objects. 

Propps theory that suggests that each character has a ‘type’ (villain, princess etc.).

Angela McRobbie believes that there are gender stereotypes being reinforced through the media, woman are weaker, more likely to be victims, carers and mothers. Yet, men are aggressive, strong and are natural leaders. 

Stanley Cohen believes that groups are demonise through negative representations. 

Bell Hooks (spelt lower case), wrote a book called “Ain’t I a woman?”, intersectionality and black woman being the lowest social status. Stereotypes will not die. The safety of black woman is not as important as other members of society. 

Liesbet Van Zoonen, a dutch woman. The media is full of different representations of woman’s bodies’ against men’s bodies’. Gender is performative - we construct our ideas about masculinity and femininity from “what we do” rather than “what we are”.