Age
Sexuality
Ethnicity
Class and status
Physical Appearance
Regional Identity
Disability

in detail:

Camera Shots, Angle, Movement and Composition
• Shots: establishing shot,
master shot,
close-up,
mid-shot,
long shot,
wide shot,
two-shot,
aerial shot,
point of view shot,
over the shoulder shot, and variations of these.
• Angle: high angle,
low angle,
canted/dutch angle.
• Movement: pan,
tilt,
track,
dolly,
crane,
Steadicam,
hand-held,
zoom,
reverse zoom.
• Composition:
framing,
rule of thirds,
depth of field –
deep and shallow focus,
focus pulls.

Editing
Includes transition of image and sound – continuity and non-continuity systems.
• Cutting: shot/reverse shot,
eye-line match,
graphic match,
action match,
jump cut,
crosscutting,
parallel editing,
cutaway;
insert.
• Other transitions,
dissolve,
fade-in,
fade-out,
wipe,
superimposition,
long take,
short take,
slow motion,
ellipsis and expansion of time,
post-production,
visual effects.

Sound
• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound;
sound effects;
sound motif,
sound bridge,
dialogue,
voiceover,
mode of address/direct address,
sound mixing,
sound perspective.
• Soundtrack: score,
incidental music,
themes and stings,
ambient sound.

Mise-en-Scène
• Production design:
location,
studio,
set design,
costume and make-up,
properties.
• Lighting;
colour design.

Hollyoaks: In the City

youtube.com/watch?v=-ryjf6MAvh0

All of the cast are quite young except the trolley-men at the beginning who were old which shows them as being unglamourous. Also the man in bed in the beginning is quite old which might be why he has to pay for sex. You don’t see much of his place, but it looks quite tidy compared to the younger people who seem quite messy. The scene also makes young people out to be partiers for example when the blonde girl comes home her flat mate makes a comment about how she’s been out all night and she moans about drinking too much tequila. The clip showed a lot of sex especially in the credits where you see s&m, kissing and girl on girl action. This stereotypes young people and makes them out to be going out and having sex all the time.

The clip showed diverse sexuality and the characters seemed quite open. There was a short clip of two girls kissing and also there’s also a man at the flat who seems gay. He’s wearing a bright silky dressing gown, has a generic gay voice and had very flamboyant body language. He also uses a lot of sarcasm and he says ‘Tell him to keep his hands off my semi skimmed’ which sounds like an innuendo.

Everyone in the clip is white except for one guy who is black. He doesn’t seem to be treated any different or act different from the characters except for when he pervs at the girls bum which you don’t see the other men doing.

In the credits everyone looks classy and loaded. It shows that these people are making a bit of money and they like to show it off. The man at the beginning seems to have a lot of money in his wallet and the fact that he is paying for sex could mean he has quite a lot of money to throw away and could be a busy business man who doesn’t have time for a relationship. The couple get a black cab to the flat which shows they’re in the city, but also shows that they either don’t have enough money for a car or have the money to spend on cabs. However, since they were arguing about living with other people you assume they must be quite skint because beggars can’t be choosers and they appear to be stuck with this flat. The prostitute goes to the fridge ad there is only bottles of champagne. This is a drink associated with wealth and celebrations and implies she makes a lot of money from what she does, yet there is no food or anything else in the the fridge.

The men were all very muscly and buff which shows that they work out and like to impress. Also the guy who gets out of the shower is completely hairless, which is very metro-sexual, but shows he makes an effort with his appearance. The prostitute is wearing sexy clothes and heels which fits in with her job. The other girl is quite under-dressed, but she doesn’t seem to want to impress any other guys because she’s happy with the boy she’s with. There was a lot of nudity in the clip which showed off how care free the characters are and links in with the sex thing.

Most the people in the clip were northern which gives the impression that northern girls are slutty with no shame.

Ashes to Ashes:

youtube.com/watch?v=RDQdixQAci0&feature=related

Everyone in the clip I watched was white which could be a representation of the police force at this time. The older constable had a lot of authority particularly over young men and the women. There were times when the camera was looking up at him which made him look very intimidating and also when there were close ups of him shouting. At the beginning he shouts at the young officer saying ‘You watch your lip constable’ and gets right in his face which is something that probably wouldn’t be acceptable in the police force anymore. It works though and the young constable opens up.

There is a lot of talk about undermining women and an ongoing debate about whether stripping is acceptable. The guy at the beginning says about sleeping with the Soho women that ‘everyone does it’ which shows that he thinks it’s ok to do and is something very normal for policemen to be doing. Yet when the main female character mentions male strippers the male officer replies with ‘Men! Stripping! Well, that’s disgusting!’ which is a representation of how people thought in those times and the big division in sexes.

The main male character talks to the women like crap and has no manners, but she puts up with it and seems to laugh it off. When someone of higher authority drives up to them in his flashy car the man is instantly respectful and even when the man drives off both the characters only subtly smile at the fact some of the mans coat is trapped in the door and flapping about, instead of taking the mick.

There aren’t many women in this and the ones you do see look very smart. The main character has her hair all done nicely and wears bright, attention seeking clothes. The men are all in suits or uniform and even the waiters at the restaurant are in shirts and bow ties.

There are three main divides in the ethnicity and regional identity of the cast. There are the higher classes constables who are well spoken and the typical London cockney younger officers. However, even the main male character who seems quite intellectual, turns to the women and demands she speak English when she talks about Date Rape, in which she replies ’somebody slipped him a mickey finn’ which is slang and shows a sense of unprofessionalism. The Italian waiter is very generic. He talks a-like-a thees and in broken English and is called Luigi.

At the begining the camera is filming from behind glass and it feels like your hiding and trying to eavesdrop especially as the officers are talking about something a bit secretive.

When the women in the kitchen is cutting her toast and the men are talking about if she was a stripper, the camera keeps cutting to the knife as she’s getting angrier and angrier and the cuts get shorter each time creating suspense as if any second now she’s going to stab one of them.

The Inbetweeners:

channel4.com/programmes/the-inbetweeners/catch-up#2872382

The clip showed typical teenage boys who like to watch porn and don’t shut up about sex. They also swear a lot and brag and lie to impress eachother and the girls. It gives the impression all teenage boys are crude and like this. At one point Will (the boy in the glasses) is wearing shoes far to big for him to impress his mates, because of the saying ‘big feet, big..ahem’. It shows makes him look stupid and shows boys will do anything to try and not look like a fool, but it backfires.

At the start you see the boys at school watching a video and one comments saying ’she’s not even naked’. He says it as if why on earth would you want to watch something with out nudity which represents boys as shallow and that they don’t care about anything else. Another typical teenage boy thing is that they are watching what seems to be a really disgusting video, but are also enjoying it a little and can’t seem to stop watching.

They take the piss out of eachother a lot to try and make eachother seem liek the bigger person and it is quite an animilistac quality which is common in boys especially teenagers who are full of testosterone.

One of the guys says ‘girls and everyone else’ showing girls are priorty in the boys lives which makes teenage boys look like all they care about is sex and girls.

To prove their sexuality the boys watch porn and talk about sex with girls including lieing about sex to eachother. This makes them seem unappealing and makes you think boys can’t have very good friendships if they have to make stuff up. They seem to think this is going to impress girls, but it also shows the girls as not being themselves.

All the people in the clip are white which could be a reflection of where they are in the UK.

The main characters are school children and in the beginning there is a voice over with Will saying his old posh school usde to start with prayers, hymns and an inspirational reading, whilst this school starts by watching porn. This shows diveristy within different classes and implies peopel at a religous, private school are innocent, good children whilst at a public school are the complete opposite.

For most the clip the characters are in school uniform. From the way the characters are it’s clear that it’s cool to have a short tie whilst not cool to have a blazer or briefcase. Also Will is the only person in glasses so by making him the minority it implies he’s quite geeky and doesn’t fit in.

The girls have long brown or blonde hair and wear short skirts which is quite slutty, but as this is based around four teenage boys it emphasises the point that they just can’t get any even though the girls everywhere seem slutty.

The boys seem to care what the girls think e.g. ironing their boxers, wearing bright white trainers. Whilst some people would think of teenage boys as spotty and never bathing this is contradictive.

When London is mentioned someone makes a point that if they go up there they will probably get ‘robbed, stabbed and killed’. Which is a genaralisation and doesn’t make the UK’s capital sound very nice. Most of the characters aren’t well spoken and use lots of slang e.g. ‘I fucked this girl’, ‘bitch mobile’ which is a representation of where they are from which sounds quite chavvy and Essex.

In the clip the camera makes you feel like you are sort of with the characters, but not with them as if you are watching from behind. It is at eye level so the characters don’t seem intimidating and there are lots of close up and reaction shots which help with the humour.