Anchorage - 20/09/09

A reader could be said to be lost in a sea of possible codes. By juxtaposing certain often familiar signifiers, they act as connotations for an audience to extrapolate the intended meaning. This is how anchorage works.

Analysing skins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMbbdT7r2o

in this clip from skins they are showing the first day of college. The mise en scene is of the college slightly exaggerating youth culture, but making sure the audience can relate to this scene. One of the shots used in an over the shoulder shot, this is used to put the audience in the point of view of the person speaking, another shot which is used is a close up this is used to show the audience the characters reaction to a certain comment made. The audience of skins is generally a passive audience as the audience can constantly relate to the story and is led along with the characters throughout their journey.

This is an example of an over the shoulder shot.

C- the class in this scene is for working or middle class teenagers/students.

A- the age is between 16-21.

G- there is no specific gender for this TV drama.

E-there is no aim for to any ethnic group in this TV drama.

Differences between TV drama and cinema

The difference between Tv drama and cinema is that...

1. The film being watched in the cinema has to entertain the audience in a certain period of time.
2. TV dramas use hailing/interpolating which means drawing you in. As TV dramas normally play weekly they have to make sure that at the end of each show the audience wants to watch next weeks episode. The best way of doing this is by leaving them at a cliff hanger.
3. TV dramas let the audience bond with charachters over time so when something happens to them there is more of an impact, where as Cinemas only have a limited period of time to get the audience to relate to the characters.
4. Cinemas view all sorts of different genres of films, unlike TV dramas where they have a certain criteria to set to as they have to always make sure they are entertaining their main target audience.

To what extent does the nature of an institution affect the representation of CAGE in a given text?

To what extent does the nature of an institution affect the representation of CAGE in a given text?

CAGE stands for class,age,gender and enthnicity. The nature of different institutions affect the representation of CAGE for example for an audience for 'skins' the age is very specific as it is aiming at one target audience, although the gender and ethnicity is irrelivant in this TV drama some shows specify on one gender for example 'sex and the city' is targeted at just women.

If a piece of TV drama is aimed at a higher class audience then the language would be slightly different. The use of semiotics would also be much more frequent as the people making the programme would expect their audience to understand the hidden codes within the dialouge.