A2 Media Jack Young

 Pop In the music video ' See you again' by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth we are shown Charlie Puth playing the piano. He is overlooking the view of the city which is very high up. This connotes heaven where Paul Walker was sent to after he died.  It starts off with an establishing shot of the setting which is of the sea. The camera is slowly panning up, signifying going up to heaven. The reoccurring theme of expensive race cars in the music video is in tribute of Paul Walker, who was in Fast and Furious. Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth both wear black in points of the video, this is because black signifies despair and sadness for the death of their good friend.  The music video starts off with dark lighting, however ends with bright lighting, this could be a message to the audience that we should celebrate his death instead of feel upset. Also the camera pans upwards at the end of the music video, leaving the audience with a positive feeling and message. The music video cuts...

 Representation Representation is how media products present and deal with gender, age, ethnicity, identity and social issues to the audience.  Representation is shown to the audience through semiotics. Semiotics are signs and symbols that are in the media product, there are there for the audience to decode the message that the semiotic are trying to tell the audience, it is then their job to decode them how they like, everyone will decode them differently due to the persons demographics and psychographics as everyone has a different background and opinion.  Stuart Hall who is a media theorist believes that there is not a true representation of people or events in a text, but there are many ways these can be represented, therefore producers try to ' fix' a meaning. He suggests that every media text has a preferred message which a producer wants to get across to their audience (encode a meaning) and ways in which the audience might be positioned to receive that message (de...