Adolescene

 Questions

1) What is the preferred reading of a media text?
  
  How the producers want the audience want to feel. They intend to make the audience feel a certain way about something specific.

2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text?

   An opinion about how the audience feels towards something else because of their own political, social and moral       beliefs.

3) How does the Adolescence clip position the audience to respond to the teenage character in the scene?

  They want the audience to think that teenagers are violent and aggressive. He is guilty and out of control, and so he is a bad guy and may have been easily influenced.

4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer?

  Young people may think that the boy doesn't deserve to be in juvie and that he is being accused. But they also may think that he does deserve to be in jail because he is involved in a serious crime.

5) Exam-Style Q: Explain how representations of young people are constructed in this clip. Answer with reference to Stuart Hall's reception theory. (Preferred/Oppositional Readings)

If it was an oppositional audience, they would think the young boy is rude, violent, aggressive, disrespectful and has no remorse whatsoever. A preferred audience may think he is only a scared, vulnerable little boy.  A negotiated audience may think the boy is annoyed and has the right to be angry and is allowed to be violent. As if they are treating him like he shouldn't be pressured and they should be more gentle. 






Extension task: 

Place yourself into the perspective of a concerned parent. Write another media analysis-style response exploring how your reading of this media text has changed based on context?



If I was a concerned parent, I would not feel any remorse for the young boy because he is very violent and using certain words to show he is aggressive. I feel this way because in the video, he is swearing at the older women and throwing things in front of her. He is showing lots of disrespect and swearing at her face. This is Mise-en-scene type of clip because you can see the whole room and most of the focus is on the boy since he is the main subject of this clip. In the picture above, it is a medium angle shot so we can see him clearly.

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