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Example QDiscuss how people and lifestyles are represented in the extract.

Refer to stereotypes in your answer. Use examples from the extract.

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What is Representation?Describes the signs that stand in for and take the

place of something else. It is through representation people know and understand the world and reality through the act of naming it.

To look like or resemble.To stand in for something or someoneTo present a second time to re-present

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What is Representation?This means that media texts are

intentionally composed, lit, written, framed, cropped, captioned, branded, targeted and censored by their producers, and that they are entirely artificial versions of the reality we perceive around us.

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Types of Representation

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Stereotypes

We naturally see the world in a kind of shorthand way, finding connections between different character traits, this allows the media to create simplistic representations which we find believable. A Stereotype

We use our own unique storehouse of knowledge about people when we judge them.

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Stereotypes

Appearance — this can include, physical appearance and clothing as well as the sound of the voice. e.g. “all teachers wear dreadful old clothes”

Behaviour — typical things that people in this group might do. “Grannies like to knit”

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How is gender represented?

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How is gender represented?

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Issues?

Are all representations positive?

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Level 4?(16-20 marks)

Discuss a range of issues of the representation of people and/or lifestyle in the extract, or discuss one or more issues in depth

Show thorough understanding of suitable representation issues

Offer a range of textual evidence from the extract that demonstrates these issues