NOEL CLARKE

Born in London, Clarke was brought up in Ladbroke Grove by his mother, a native of Trinidad and the person with whom he credits his success, and his avoidance of the many temptations open to young people growing up.The area Clarke grew up in and the diverse atmosphere and heritage provides the vista for the drama in 2006’s gritty urban drama Kidulthood, which Clarke wrote and also starred inClarke’s first exposure to a widespread audience came with the revival of two classic shows of the past in the early 2000’s. In 2002 he landed the role of Wyman Norris, the son of one of the original characters in the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. His best-known role to date, in television at least, is that of Mickey, the long-suffering boyfriend of Billie Piper’s assistant in the BBC’s hugely successful Doctor Who.More recently, Clarke has made the  move from in front of the camera to behind it, becoming one of Britain’s fastest rising mainstream writer-directors – and one of its most successful. The producers ofAdulthood, the sequel to Kidulthood, took the brave step of giving Clarke the director’s chair, despite him having no previous experience directing a feature film.Adulthood was a massive success, making over £3m in the UKThe success of that film led to Clarke’s latest project, 4.3.2.1., which again sees Clarke as the director and star. The film is a crime thriller featuring a touch of Hollywood glamour in co-star Emma Roberts, niece of Oscar-winner Julia, plus British stars such as Bionic Woman’s Michelle Ryan and Tamsin Egerton of St Trinian’s fameThe success Clarke has achieved is phenomenal for an actor who’s experienced relatively little time in the spotlight. In 2009, he won the BAFTA Rising Star award, voted for by the public – a moment that still stands as one of the highlights of Clarke’s career.

ANOVAHOOD

Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless "shotter", who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity. Written by Nick Taussig

DIZZY RASCAL

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HENRY JENKINS

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Ideas for research project

aspirational teenage london youth(black racial background)
movies:

• kidulthood
• adulthood
• anovahood

music (videos and lyrics) :

• chipmunk artist
• wretch 32
• dizzy rascal

looking into these artists and movies will give me an idea of what my topic is about and how it relates to finding out how the media shape the apperance and represent this group.
a summary of my aim would be young teenage kids living a tough life,less privallaged and wanting to make their lives better.when representing this social group you look into the ways they live their life and what they go through. a term they use that would be accurate to describe what im trying to say would be 'hustling' and tring to keep off the streets. in some lyrics they talk about being influenced by the wrong people and getting into illegal things such as drugs in order to afford the life they wanna live and i think its important to listen and see what they are trying to tell/show us.the movies ive listed above are quite different to movies you would usually see because this one has an actual sense of realisim in a way that it is written and the story is told by someones experiences of not only what they've been through but also what they are aware that others have been through or are currently going through.............



OCR MEDIA A2

Media and Collective Identity

How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic / social / collective groups of people in different ways?
How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?
What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?
　 . Candidates might explore combinations of any media representation across two media, or two different representations across two media. Some examples are:

Candidates may analyse the representation of and / or the collective identity of one or more group(s) of people

National cinema, television representations, magazines and gender, representations of youth and youth culture, post-9/11 representations of Islam, absence / presence of people with disability in two media.