Re-presentation

the process by which the media present the 'real world' (Rayner)

the selction process is:

• the decision over what is chosen to be represented and what is rejected.
• the choices made when organising the represetation.
• the options taken to focus the audience in a certain way

all of these things we are going to have most definately thought about with our representations of depressed lonely girl, suffering quietly.

Gatekeeping

a theorist called White (1961) spoke of the 'gatekeepers' - that is the people who are part of the decision making process in the construction of media texts.

in this case, WE (me and Amy) are the gatekeepers, as we are the ones making the decisions for our film, however in a bigger scale, the gatekeepers of us are our chosen institution who in effect make decisions also on what they wish our film to show.

Richard dyer - The matter of Images

Dyer said: 'how we are seen determines how we are treated, how we treat others is based on how we see them. how we see them, comes from representation.'

when showing the representation of our lonely and sad protagonist in the film, will then be inflicted on the audience. they will see this representation and then go on to treat others that fit our representation, the way they see them treated in our text.