Aaron's Media Blog

The  Narrative is about  rascal's dream of getting out of the streets  and how he has achieved that dream and is successful. It is a motivational message to tell young people to follow their dreams and too optimistic about their hopes. The white middle class are represented as an oppressor as the middle class, elderly white woman tells Rascal when he is allowed to come out of his box. This is a physical box, seen in the video, and a metaphorical box as young black people are often limited in what society allows them to do as a career. At the end of the video Dizzie is sent back into his box. Dizzie is also a lot smaller than the woman. Representing his lower place in society. Puppets are in the video in place of normal people. This shows that these people are being controlled by society and aren't able to reach their dreams. One of the puppets also resembles a golliwog. This is Dizzie making reference this a society that looks at black people negatively. The elderly wom...

Explore how  gender and/or ethnicity  is  represented  in at least three examples from the med ia (TV, film, magazines, music videos, games, film, advertising etc). In this essay I'll be looking at the various representations of black people across different media. I'll be looking at a U.K drill video "3+4" by A.M, a Chinese l aundry   advert by Qiaobi and  a U.K rap video "Black" by Dave. 3+4  A.M (Music Video) This is a drill music video and the majority of the people in the video, including the artist, are black males. The video represents gang culture in London which is often associated with black males. In this music video black people are represented as violent and disres pectful. Mainly black males. The mise-en-scene shows the men are masked, trying to hide there faces to not get caught for the crimes they are going to commit. This represents black people as immoral criminals. It also shows them making hand...