what is disability?

A clip from over the mountain.

A subverting representation of disability is shown through the diegetic dialogue of Ben's character, because Ben said ' David can be bit strange sometime! '. From the dialogue it indicate how Ben thinks about David as 'Strange' this is subverting the stereotypical of a person who have Down-syndrome 

Week3 Analyse the representation of ethnicity through the micro elements.

The opening sequeance start with a male character come in a room, non-diegetic sound of estern music, this to indicated their ethnicity they come from Greek. Props is used where coffee cup. the main character his name is Nike, from his accent we ntoice his is white Americans, but we know his is half Greek. from the other characters one is from Iran and one is from Greek we identifed form his strong accent. CU shot of characters haveing conversation using shot revers shot. two shot is used to show other two characters they both in the same side and Nike is by himself, this show his is alone.

Then it cut to the street at night time, restrive camera shot of the gange to hind his identity from the audience and to create engima code and tension. Hip Hop, non-diegetic soundtrack is playing through in this sequence, to repersent their ethnicity by the music, to indicate they are black. The coustume in this scene they both have similar clothing to repersent they all equal and indicated they all come from the same place. Stylist lighting is used, is dim this is to create tension on audience and indcate danger.

By their coustum we notice their both working class, a scene of a expensive car part out side some run down street, juxtaposition is use to indicate the audience they are going up to somthing. e.g. druge dealing.

A male character come in the car, ECU shot of the gun, from the dialogue, we notice his a a cool character, is like his use to this situation. this show his determined what his is doing.

A low angle mid shot of a black male character, from Nike POV. The reason they cast this character to show the people who bron in America, by his figure it indicate his healthy and his class, this show his eat a lot cheap fatty food, from the conversation we notice the man who come from Iran is believeing Muslim, when his having a laugh about the black guy figure.

In the sequence I will be analyses the mise-en-scene and cinematography which represent the gender.
As we can see a shallow focus CU shot of a female character face this emphasize the character , by her blond hair this represent as American female and by her accent this indicated she come from US, by looking at her custom it conform stereotype of women, which show her figure and the colour of her costume is green. Green is describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous, or sick. In America, green is a slang term for money, among other things. Several colloquialisms have derived from these meanings, such as “green around the gills”, a phrase used to describe a person who looks ill. This indicated the audience this character Olive is jealous of Chuck ( The main character in Pushing Daises.)
The next shot it uses a deep focus pan mid shot introduces to the audience is set in some kind of coffee shop (which is the pie shop). Then a OS mid shot showing both characters. The male character is wearing a brown suite, this represent maturity for this character. Using shot reveres shot showing their conversation to create tension and the anger from Olive to speed the conversation and to show she is angry.
The iconography is used in this sequence were the cup, coffee pot and sugar, to introduce the audience about the setting.
The lighting in this sequence is a artificial lighting, to show is happen at night time to create atmosphere, and to indicate the sadness inside Olive mind.

Week 2 Representation of Gender: Editing and Sound

House M.D Clip

I will be analyses a clip for editing and sound, showing representation of gender from House M.D, is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show was created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer.

In this sequence it uses continuity editing generates a feeling that time moves forward and showing realistic chronology. Cut is use through out the whole sequence to create a scene of cleanness represent the scene set. 'hospital' we notice their in the hospital because one of the character is wearing a patient clothe.

A extreme CU of the male character hand playing piano, diegetic sound is used showing the melody create a cheerful mood, this create juxtaposition of the stereotype of a hospital.

Shot revers shot of the doctor looking at the patient and eyeline match it use.

Week 2 Representation of women and men

Typically Masculine

- Hidden emotions
- Dominance
- Occupations > Policeman/fireman
- Gym
- D.I.Y
- Tough
- Aggressive
- Main Protagonist
- Superior
- Sweaty
- In Control
- Bread Winners
- Active

Typically Feminine

- Emotional
- Distracting
- Victim
- Nurturers
- Soft
- Clueless in serious situations
- Subservient - Seen not heard
- Passive - not involved
- In the way

Representation Table


Representation in women

-beauty (within Narrow conventions)
- size/physique (within Narrow conventions)
- Sexuality
-emotional (as opposed to intellectual)
- relationships (as opposed to freedom)
- part of context e.g family friends
- often helper

Representation in Men

- Strength
- Power
- Sexual attractiveness
- Physique
- Independance (thoughts, actions)
- Isolated, do not need to rely on others

Week 1

Pushing Daises Clip

I will analyses sound in this clip to represent the gender in this clip.

The name of this TV drama is ‘Pushing Daises’.
Pushing Daisies is an American Television dramedy creates by Bryan Fuller, is about a pie-maker with the power to bring the dead back to life.

In this sequence, it begins with a diegetic sound of a male character, from the sound the audiences notice is a male character. The language his speaking were Japanese, but we can still little bit American accent form the character, but this is to indicated this is a provincial worker.

During this sequence it include a non-diegetic sound playing softly with the dialogue, using string musical instrument to crate spooked tension on the audiences. At the background we can hear a crowed of people in this sequence, to indicated to the audiences many people are involve in this event and they are amused what they see.

In this clip female character is represent the same as the male character showing their both in the equal state, both can speak Japanese, and it can be provincial as the male character, this is subverted the stereotype of female.