Representations in Media Studies

This visually-engaging and informative resource is perfect for helping Media students to understand the key concept of Representations. Through a range of different and interesting tasks , students learn to identify and understand representations at work in the media, and become familiar with key terms such as 'stereotyping; and 'aspects of character.'

The learning journey is progressive and step-by-step, allowing for bite-size chunks of progress to be evident and regular intervals. Students learn to:
- Understand that everyone sees images and ideas differently;
- Define the key terms 'representations' and 'stereotypes;'
- Understand some common representations and stereotypes;
- Analyse the reasoning and effects of different representations;
- Analyse how different characters are represented in a key media text.

The key media text that I have chosen for the main analysis task is the movie 'Warrior' (2011) starring Tom Hardy, but the resources can be easily adapted to suit different media texts should you choose to.

All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slide of the presentation.