This document discusses representing different social groups in TV dramas and asks students to think about subgenres of TV dramas like The Wire, Skins, and Bleak House and how characters from different ethnicities, ages, and social classes are represented in them. Students are instructed to fill out a mindmap about TV drama subgenres and discuss in pairs how various social groups are represented in images and which groups are represented and in what ways.

1. Possibly get started on Age…

2. What sub genre are these TV Dramas?
Fill in the mindmap in your booklet
Ext: Can you think of
any others?

3. What sub genre are these TV Dramas?
Fill in the mindmap on handout
TV Drama
Ext: Can you think of
any others?

4. REPRESENTATION
In pairs, answer the
Who is being represented? questions for each image
How are they being Ext: Why have these
represented? social groups been
represented in this way?

5. Representation is…
• Write down your own definition for
Representation
“ The way a media text re – presents or
constructs a particular group of people, place
or situation”
‘A Construction of Reality’

6. Why is The Media called The Media?
• Because it mediates between the information
and the audience
PRODUCERS
MEDIA
TEXT AUDIENCE

7. In pairs, analyse one of the following TV Dramas to present
back to the class
•The Wire – Representation of Ethnicity
•Skins – Representation of Age
•Bleak House – Representation of Social Class
What is the sub genre? How do you know this?
How are the characters represented? Does it conform
to typical stereotypes?
Analyse using mise-en-scene and cinematography

11. You have 3 mins to present
• Audience: Think of Questions to ask the group
• What else would you like to know?
• Did the group describe or analyse?
• What media terminology should they be
using when analysing?