Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist who coined the term "hyperreality" to describe a new social reality where people can confuse the digital world for the real world. Hyperreality exists in films, television, and other media where the lines between fiction and reality become blurred. Examples include The Matrix, Inception, and reality television shows like The Only Way is Essex, which can trick viewers into believing fictional scenarios and characters are real.

1. HYPERREALITY
TOM TULL

2. WHAT IS IT?
It is the theory that people can confuse the digital
world for the real world, they perception gets changed
as to where one ends and the other begins.

3. JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Baudrillard was a French sociologist and cultural
theorist, who was most known for his work in post
modernism. He created the theory, that there can be a
new social reality, and called it hyper reality, he was
the person that coined the theory.

4. HOW DOES IT APPLY IN THE
REAL WORLD?
Children grow up watching Disney film’s, particularly
girls, this then distorts them into thinking that the
Princesses that they see are actually real, so if these
children go to Disney Land, they get caught in a reality
that is not real, but real to them.

5. EXAMPLES IN THE MEDIA:
BROADCAST
Hyper reality exists in films and Television, common
examples are:
The Matrix
Inception
Derren Brown: The Apocalypse
The Only Way Is Essex

6. THE MATRIX
The characters in this film have a danger of being
exposed to the idea of hyper reality. The fact that one
person can switch between two worlds is a good
example that someone could get confused as to what
reality they are actually living in.

7. INCEPTION
This is another good example because when people
go into this dream state, how do they really know if
they are dreaming or if they are actually living? One
moment in the film, someone says that the people
dreaming believe that, that is the reality, and that
when they wake up, that is the dream..

8. DERREN BROWN:
APOCALYPSE
This television program shows perfectly how the
media and technology can distort our perception into
thinking something insane, like a zombie apocalypse,
is actually happening, the person involved in the
program was tricked into thinking another reality was
happening, because of media encouragement.

9. THE ONLY WAY
IS ESSEX
People watching this program are tricked into thinking
that these people are ‘real’, it is augmented reality.
People watch the program and believe that everything
is happening as it happens, but these are budding
actors that are being scripted, so this is an example of
how far people can be pulled into hyper reality.

10. DEFINITIONS
"A real without origin or reality” Jean Buadrillard
"The authentic fake." Umberto Eco
"The virtual irreality" - Pater Sparrow