After viewing this week’s documentary, please write a one to two page reflection answering the questions below using the Media Triangle framework. Your reflection must include 2-3 concepts or ideas from this week’s reading…Representation, Language, and Meaning by Stuart Hall.
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Media Literacy Core Questions
1. Who created this?
2. What values are being shared?
3. What techniques are used to capture my attention?
4. How might others perceive this media differently than me?
5. What is missing?
Documentary Specific Questions
6. How do you feel after watching the film? Were you able to see yourself or someone you know in
the film’s storyline?
7. What was the film’s key message? What was it trying to convey to the audience? Do you think
that message was conveyed successfully or not?
8. Why is it necessary to have a disability activist community?
9. Why was the camp such a freeing and revolutionary experience for the campers? How did it
empower them?
10. Whose stories and perspectives are missing from the film?
Media Triangle Questions
TEXT
1. In what ways does this text tell a story? Does it connect to a larger story?
2. What type or category of story is it? Does it follow a formula?
3. What codes and conventions are used?
4. What are the characters like? Are they realistic? Are they stereotypes?
Is there an expected running time for a film or song?
Are there any copyright or trademarks used to protect certain words or products?
5. How do the characters relate to each other in terms of power, age, gender, race and class?
6. What are the values and ideology of the characters? To what extent do I share these beliefs?
AUDIENCE
1. How does this text appeal to me? What things do I like and dislike?
2. Who is the intended target audience?
3. How and why does this text appeal to its audience?
4. In what different ways do people use or consume this text?
5. How could I change the text to make it more enjoyable?
PRODUCTION
1. Where does this text come from? Who created it?
Who owns it?
2. How is this text distributed or sold to the public?
Who profits?
3. How was the text made? What production techniques were used?
4. What rules and laws affect this text?
Is there an expected running time for a film or song?
Are there any copyright or trademarks used to protect certain words or products?
5. How could I produce a similar text?