Essay Planning for Collective Identity

Every single essay you do for the collective identity question will require you to be able to explain how the collective identity for a group (Teenagers and Young People) is portrayed (and created) by the mainstream media today.

In other words, you will need to be able to say how young people are depicted on TV, in films and in the news.

You can then use these depictions to answer whatever question you've been asked. But you must have the examples (from two different media) for every question.

YOU NEED TO PREPARE 500 WORDS ON...

What is the depiction of young people and teenagers by the mainstream media today.

- Attack The Block

- Newspapers & TV News

- Your own examples (eg. The Inbetweeners Movie / Misfits / Bad Education)

PLAN:

- Define the stereotypical view on teenagers in the media; (antisocial, violent, apathetic, alienated) 

- Give an exemplar text that supports this. (Such as Attack the Block)

- Give specific examples from the text that support this view (or contradict it) 

- Give another exemplar text that supports this, from a different media industry. 

- Give specific examples from this text that support this view (or contradict it) 

- Explain how both texts depict identity in the same way. 

then....

YOU NEED TO PREPARE another) 500 WORDS ON...

What was the historical depiction of young people and teenagers by the mainstream media? 

- Daily Mirror "Wild Ones Invade Seaside" - 1964

- Cohen - Folk Devils & Moral Panics

- Your own examples (Quadrophenia, West Side Story, Moral Panics, etc.) 

PLAN: 

- Give an exemplar text that depicts the collective identity of young people in a way. (Such as the Daily Mirror article)

- State how the identity is being portrayed (mediated) by the text - e.g. "Wild Ones / Dangerous" 

- Give specific examples from the text. 
- Is this depiction different or similar from that of today? 


EXTRA READING AND INFORMATION:

• A good starting point for this area of the question is Jon Savage's Teenage: The Creation of Youth and the documentary film made from it. Which you can find out about here: http://www.teenagefilm.com

• Also Andrew Miller's speaker notes from the BFI Media Studies Conference 2015 

• This exam guide esource about implications and effects  http://collectiveidentity.posthaven.com/what-are-the-social-implications-of-different
• Why the coverage of the London Riots was disgraceful
• Why are there no young positive black British role models in the media?
• How the media demonises teenagers
• Youth Culture and crime, what can we learn from History?
• Report on how young black men are portrayed by the media.