Media Essay

How are different social groups represented in the sequence you have analysed? What role does the use of media language, signs and signifiers have in constructing and presenting these representations as real? Make a plan, go through the doc link and see what other students wrote for their scenes, take notes.

Multiple social groups have tried to be presented in the first episode of Stranger Things including; youth, parents and political parties. They are all represented through dissimilar ways. For example, media language, signs and signifiers all show them in different ways.

Interpreting different social groups, is the police and government. The government signs are hinted right from the off. Due to the identifiable personal that is dressed in the white lad coat that is stereotyped in most films to show the signs of discovery or unnatural sources. signifying intelligence as it is key to working in a white-collar job like this one. The camera work used creates a direct mode of address that shows us as equal to this scientist to give us a new perception of this scientist. The sounds of his footsteps show the normality of the government as they are still human and scared. The strobe lights indicate the hints of intelligent almost stuttering out of him as the adrenaline takes over creating this “normal” persona. The police are represented complete different to the government. Although they seem lazy and have that dull attitude, they are also secretly compassionate as hopper shows in the woods. Hoppers aura that is created as the way he strokes in late shows the laziness and the that boss has a non-caring attitude that suggest the opposite to the hard-working government. The representation then is given a sense of realism to the audience, as it is typical that the lazy sheriff who ha the most power is the lazy Sheriff as it has been dripped into the media through the cultivation, they through other medias. Camera looks up at hopper from a low angle shot to create this snse of entailment and power given to him just cause of his stature and mood, the producers do this in order to present the social group as having platforms.

Another social group which can be presented in episode one, Is the social groups of youths, there are multiple signs which show that they are teenagers, in the 1980s. The boys are on the bikes which is at first perceived as a sign. However, when I investigate these signs you can see that the boys use on their bikes a lot therefore showing their dependence and signifies their freedom and their trust and relationship with their parents. This further proved as the children can ride home late at night it seems so have trust yet also are used to doing this do so meaning they have been trusted for a while further proving the maturity and responsibility of each youth. So, on a whole this is showing the contrast to what a stereotype of youths are, as the boys are portrayed as intellectual. This is due to the complex game lasting10 hours and the fact they can be trusted to make their way home safely, shows an opposite to the stereotype of youths. Mike see’s this creature he appears to fear this when he runs to his house, therefore portraying the stereotype of a younger teenager who may act brave but is still a child at heart and still needs protection.