Devonte's Media Blog

Water Aid promote 'claudia's' name which make the charity seem authentic, honest, independent child to influence the audience. Her name is used across twitter, social media etc to spread awareness to more deprived people like Claudia. Highlights the realism of the charity, which encourages people to support.

ALL THEORIES TO HELP FOR PAPER 1 Stuart Hall reprensentation Barther Semiotics Curran Searun David Gauntlett: Identity theory for representation The idea that the media provide us with 'tools' or resources that we use to construct our identities. summary: We use the internet and other media texts to help us create our identity. We now have more of a variety of representations to identify with. "Pick n Mix": Perhaps music video 'artists' influence the identity in which people have, through a parasocial relationship (youtubers or social media influencers) Shirky's theory 'End of Audience': We are now more liekly to use the internet and other technologies to respond to texts, including creating our own. Stuart Hall 'representation theory': Media language is used to create representations. Sterotyping is often used assert power. Hall's theory could Anchorage: headline and picture "LETS KICK HIM OUT" basic heading to depict

Kiss of the vampire: Poster has 4 significant colours, White indicating purity, black a contrast that highlights death/ evil, red which signifies blood/danger and yellow which represents hazard and warning. Perhaps a symbolism towards the evil surrouding patriachal vampires. Theories to support The lost boys: