How are events, issues, individuals and social groups in this product
represented through the selection and combination of media language?]
In Humans, the selection of the mise-en-scene of the high-angle mid-shot of Anita represents the mother-like care that a babysitter or nanny may give to a child. This representation of cyborgs in humans is subversive as they are not meant to have feelings. The high-angle of this shot represents the power of the human audience over the synths (cyborgs) in this shot. However, the representation of women in this scene is being caring and motherly, both from Laura's concern about Anita and Anita's newly learned feeling of love which could reflect the selection of Anita being positioned facing away from the camera showing her focus on learning how to feel a new emotion.
How (and why!) have stereotypes in this media product been used both
positively and negatively?
In Humans the subversive stereotype of Joe's role of a stay-at-home husband in the first episode has been used in a negative way when he is represented as lazy in the mid-shot of him introducing Anita to Laura. This is a hermeneutic code to make the audience question if Joe bought Anita for a different purpose perhaps as a sexual thing or to theoretically replace Laura.
How does the social and cultural context of the product effect how it
represents people, places etc? What messages and beliefs does it encode?
The parallel present setting of the pilot episode of Humans encodes the message that people are becoming reliant on technology. This represents people as weak which is a subversive representation due to the fact that they created the technology in the first place. In relation to Stuart Hall's theory of representation in the long shot of Anita as she is being bought where she has a wire connected to her body. This mise-en-scene may be used to encode the fact that people are becoming too attached to technology because even though Anita isn't human, she looks and acts like one.
represented through the selection and combination of media language?]
In Humans, the selection of the mise-en-scene of the high-angle mid-shot of Anita represents the mother-like care that a babysitter or nanny may give to a child. This representation of cyborgs in humans is subversive as they are not meant to have feelings. The high-angle of this shot represents the power of the human audience over the synths (cyborgs) in this shot. However, the representation of women in this scene is being caring and motherly, both from Laura's concern about Anita and Anita's newly learned feeling of love which could reflect the selection of Anita being positioned facing away from the camera showing her focus on learning how to feel a new emotion.
How (and why!) have stereotypes in this media product been used both
positively and negatively?
In Humans the subversive stereotype of Joe's role of a stay-at-home husband in the first episode has been used in a negative way when he is represented as lazy in the mid-shot of him introducing Anita to Laura. This is a hermeneutic code to make the audience question if Joe bought Anita for a different purpose perhaps as a sexual thing or to theoretically replace Laura.
How does the social and cultural context of the product effect how it
represents people, places etc? What messages and beliefs does it encode?
The parallel present setting of the pilot episode of Humans encodes the message that people are becoming reliant on technology. This represents people as weak which is a subversive representation due to the fact that they created the technology in the first place. In relation to Stuart Hall's theory of representation in the long shot of Anita as she is being bought where she has a wire connected to her body. This mise-en-scene may be used to encode the fact that people are becoming too attached to technology because even though Anita isn't human, she looks and acts like one.
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