Media miss representation protest

          Media miss representation protest




Protest plan-
We will be located under the stairs in the main reception area. We will have posters on the window for further information. We will be protesting how the media makes groups such as asians, blacks, females and whites make them seem a certain way. We portrayed this by having an interview/ documentary with anyone who wanted to participate. I was the sound guy, Tatenda was the interviewer, Daniel was the plant, sybil was the costume designer and Kit was the camera woman. Having all of these characters will allow us to say certain things to the interviewee to imply the message. For example, I will say to the interviewee something along the lines of "can you sound more ghetto please? Have a bit of slang in your vocabulary, your black for goodness sake". Sybil will place labels on the interviewee before the interview. The labels will say what ever their group are pecieved to be like so if it was a white person they would have "rich" "employable" "polite". She would then change the labels if they didn't act like their labels and put them into a different group even if they denied. Tatenda will ask many questions that related to their steroetpyical grouping such as, "How does it feel to be an imigrant from syria" or "Do you like being equal to white man?". Kit will stop the interview if the interviewee doesn't cooperate or becomes argumentative. And Daniel will attract people to be interviewed and be the interviewee once so that if the protest doesn't work out as people won't take it seriously we will have at least one person to show anyone watching what we were trying to display.  

Preparation-
My role was to be the sound guy so I thought of ideas to seem more like one. I spoke to a technician teacher to ask if I could borrow a boom stick. He said I needed permission from my film studies teacher which I did and she then agreed. I also brought in large earphones and dressed similar to a stereotypical sound guy to make it seem more realistic. 


Research-
From researching media miss representation I realised how much society is oblivious to what people are actually like from all the labels and stereotypes the media gives them. For example, I found out that "America teenagers alone spend more than 10 hours a day consuming media, most of it filled with content that objectifies women". This can make them feel like their body isn't like the majority of bodies they see from the vast variety of media. Even social media in fact. We recieved inspiration to use tags from the play Labels as it really helped create imagery of physically being labelled as something; something that stays on you and isn't just said then disapears.

Research sources:
 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthaettus/2011/10/21/25-alarm-bells-for-women-sounds-from-miss-representation/

 http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/racial-bias-reporting-research-trends

 http://worldnewstoday.co.uk/2012/01/misrepresentations-of-islam-youth-media-and-culture/