Representation is the way the media RE-PRESENT individuals, groups, events and issues.
Stereotypes
Media institutions use stereotypes because the audience will instantly understand them. Think of stereotypes as a 'visual shortcut'. They are repeated so often that we assume they are normal or 'true'.
Yellow crown(Yellow pentagon) with "B" is known as the symbol of Bigbang. People are always think of Bigbang when they see this shape. This is a pentagon because of there are five members in this group and yellow is their colour, the big "B" is easy to make people know this is for Bigbang.
G-Dragon is the leader in this band. Therefore, GD is his abbreviation. This symbol is design by YG, it is made by two alphabet "G"and "D". Some people think the designer copy the idea of the symbol of peace, but the company clarify the facts at last. However, this is a very good advertisement for Bigbang, this is because peace symbol is well known and many people can relative to Bigbang when they see the peace symbol.
The Ouendan colour system
This is a traditional cultural of Korea. Every single group or artist have their own Ouendan colour or thing. The colour is one of the symbols of the group or artist. You can easy to see this cultural in their concerts. The fans will organise the activities like use different colour of hand light to make a word or picture. Different stars' concerts have different colour light.
The picture above shows the different in different stars' concert. What I mention is the colour is the symbol of the star. For Bigbang, yellow is their Ouendan colour. As we know people always use yellow to be the natural light colour, like sunshine. Many people think light is hope and I think this is a reason why they choose yellow to be their colour. But some fans say Bigbang don't have Ouendan colour, their support thing is the hand light with crown shape and yellow light.
YG is a hip-hop entertainment and Bigbang is a hip-pop group. Their clothes style, music style and all things are around hip-hop at first. From time to time, they can change any styles they want now. Their songs are not only about hip-hop, but also R&B, Electronic and so on. Also, they change their clothes style sometimes.
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