Adolescence- Audience: reception theory
1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? What the media creators want you to think. 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? What the media creators don't want you to think 3) How does the Adolescence clip position the audience to respond to the teenage character in the scene? That teenagers can get angry and do have emotions and go through stress that triggers such emotions of anger 4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer? Because of the emotion that's used. It could be seen as a bad representation as people who are always angry. 5) Exam-Style Q: Explain how representations of young people are constructed in this clip. Answer with reference to Stuart Hall's reception theory. Using oppositional theory the representation for young people could entirely create an overall negative character and style causing a disparity between people for young people and represent them as these aggressive being...