Friday 23 September 2011
Tuesday 20 September 2011
The show demonstrates tricks, scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by presenters to avoid scams done by the hustlers. In addition, the aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con.
Media Representations
There are three presenters/hustlers in this show, each have their own roles and talents to run scams.
Paul Wilson – The con Artist
Paul Wilson is known as ‘the con artist’, he is the specialist in con games, scams and cheating. He represents the advanced highly developed criminals.
Jesscia clement- sexy swindler
Jessica clement known as the ‘Sexy swindler’, represents the females who use their feminity / beauty as an advantage to scam people. Alex Coran- confident trickster
Alex Coran known as ‘the confident trickster’ represents the magician who uses their tricks to cheat and scam people. Media languages and forms
Firstly, there is variety of type of media languages and forms are used in this programme to appeal to their target audience and to meet their needs. For example:
Visual techniques- During the scam the camera will be fitted inside and outside in different positions and angles (high, low, mid...etc) to get the ‘Marks’ facial expressions and gesture, this could interprets to the audience on how they feel and what they thinking, whether they are falling for the scam or confused. Furthermore, the quality of the scenes during the scam is very low comparing to the ones they use at the beginning of the show; this gives a sense of realism to the show. Hence, the camera angle goes back and forth to get different views of the detailed. In addition, there’s often a close up of the ‘Mark’ to see their reaction and if they believe it or not.
Narrator- There is a voiceover from the beginning to the end. The male voiceover states and explains in details on what the hustlers are about to do and what they did, this avoid confusion because as mentioned before the camera filmed for the scam scenes are low quality. The voiceover will help the audience understand the narrative bit more. Hence the voiceover plays a bit part in this programme as the hustlers don’t really guide/ direct the audience on what they doing.
Images and iconography – celebrities are used in this show as part of the hustlers the team. They help out during scam and after the scam they report mentioning how they felt about the scam and it shocks them. Furthermore, the victim/Marks inform the audience after the scam about how they felt about the scam. This will make the audience feel the same way as the victim do and will make more aware of the situations.
Mise-en-scene – the hustlers often wear casual clothing to blend in with the public/crowd. In addition they also dress formal if they acting as a professionals to make them look more trustworthy and officially.
Soundtrack – during the action of the scam, the music is usually very energetic to make the audience feel the atmosphere. However, the energetic music soon changes to slow sentimental music when the ‘Mark’ realises he/she been scammed this creates sympathy to the ‘Mark’ and makes the audience feel as if they were the ‘Mark’.
Narrative
‘the Real Hustle’ show is usually structured, this is good as it covers every segment of the show, In each show they include a celebrity helping the hustler with the scam. Furthermore, there’s always a big scam including just the hustlers which starts of at first and then gets continued after as it got two parts to. In between the parts they include ‘proposition bet’ which is simple bets done by the hustlers and they demonstrate the solution at the end; it’s simple and easy which lets the audience can learn and teach others. This part of the show often engages the audience.
In addition as mentioned before after the scams the ‘Marks’ talks about what happened and how much they got scammed ,this makes the audience identify themselves as they could be one of them. Moreover, each show starts off with a intro stating what’s featured in the show and stating that the marks are scammed for real and they money gets returned back.
Genre
‘the Real Hustle’ is a reality show containing content of crime & justices and factual information’s. The generic theme for this show is more like documentary; it contains all the documentary media forms and languages which give realism to the show.
Media institutions
‘the Real Hustle’ broadcasts on ‘BBC three’ at 8.30pm every Mondays for 30 Minutes. It is also available on ‘BBC Iplayer’. BBC is a public service institution, their main aim is to entertain, educate and inform the audience. The show educates the scams and how they are done to the audience, they inform them by asking the ‘Marks’ to talk about their experience and they entertain the audience by showing the ‘Marks’ by foolishness. BBC is owned by ‘The Crown’ and funded by John Reith and George Villiers.
Media Values and Ideology
Males- males were represented dominant as there are more male presenters than female in this show. This conveys that males are good at this job; however, there are also more male victims in this show this may also present the males as weak, dumb and stupid.
Females- unlike males, there’s only one female presenter and she been often guided by the fellow male presenters or either helping them with the scams. In addition, jess is portrayed as an object to attract the male victims. Furthermore, she is often acted for the secretary role. Overall females are represented subordinate in this show.
Media Audiences
The audience for this show is most likely to be the general public, as anyone could get scammed however they more likely to belong to BC1C2 socio- demographics as they are they belong to high-middle class and the DE socio-demographics would be the real hustlers.
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