Question 2

What institution(s) is/are responsible for the production of your media texts? Consider both the production company (and channel of the broadcast if on the TV) and explore how this may affect the representations in the texts.


Underage and Pregnant: 8:30pm Tuesdays, BBC3
The BBC is government funded. BBC3 is targeted at more of a youth audience than BBC 1 and 2, BBC3 shows are commonly reality programs, or comedy shows consisting of teenagers or young audiences. The fact that it is government funded, means that BBC3 would most probably portray the government as a positive thing, also the shows on the channel may be of those that contain social issues. Teenagers would be the typical target audience, and because it doesn’t come on the terrestrial channels infers that the audience is rather niche and tightly marketed at
the working/middle class, unemployed students/teenagers.

Juno:
Fox searchlight pictures (News Corporation Company)
Fox Searchlight Pictures is known movies such as Slumdog millionaire, My name is Khan, Little Miss Sunshine. These movies all contain issues which have been in the media most recently, or issues which exist in reality and are not revolved around the subject of love. Fox can also be called the monopoly of the movie making industry, and therefore can afford to make movies which niche audiences that conform to the issues in society. However we need to remember that there will always be a entertainment value in these movies and most of them have a happy ending which is not so realistic and therefore may be a more soft portrayal of the subject of teenage pregnancy.

The Daily Mail:
Is part of a conglomerate with The General trust. Mainly targeted at middle/working class people. Mostly mainstreamers and aspirers who want to know the issues that are existed in today’s society. Most of them read for gossip about celebrities. Therefore stories in the newspaper may be exaggerated, mostly about the pregnant teens in the working class section.