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VICMediaQuick questions
Unit 3: Media narratives and pre-production
Quick questions on Media representations of people, places and ideas in VCE Media
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What are audiences read representations?Show answer
Audiences do not absorb representations passively. They read them through their own knowledge, culture and experience. The same representation of, say, a protest can be read by one audience as legitimate dissent and by another as disorder, depending on the codes emphasised and the reception context the audience brings. A representation can invite a preferred reading, but audiences can negotiate or oppose it.
What is writing about representation?Show answer
Identify the subject (person, place, event or idea), name the codes and conventions that construct it, state the representation that results, and connect it to the creators' likely views and values and the reading audiences are invited to make. Then, where the question allows, note how a different audience might read it differently.
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