Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Representation of the disabled

Stereo Types of the disabled - 

Vulnerable - Artie Abrams from glee is in a wheel chair and is venerable as he can not defend him self. 
Incapable - Walt Jnr in breaking bad, who has cerepal palsy, struggles to do many activities such as driving. 
Left out - Tony in skins when he gets hit by the bus, he seems to get left out more as he can't go to parties. 
Unintelligent - Lenny form the movie of mice and men is represented as being very unintelligent and that his disability holds him back. 
Lonely - Forrest Gump the character is represented as being lonely and know one wanting to asosiate with him because he is different. 
Unattractive - Becky form glee who has down syndrome and is represented as being unattractive and this is a common stereotype
for this disease. 




In this film of mice and men the character Lennie who is mental disabled is represented as, unintelligent as he has avery low mental age and he also acts very childish as you can see in the clip he is a very big guy but starts crying when he gets the mouse took of him. He also gets left out a lot, because he is not normal like the others at the ranch. One night they all go to the town but Lennie does not go because he is not normal and is told to stay behind. He is also represented as incapable as shown in this clip as he is not allowed to keep his own work card because he will loose it. These are all common stereotypes for people who are disabled in films and Tv Dramas



In this Trailer for the movie iron side, Robert T. Ironside is represented as a tough, good looking, strong and acerbic police detective relegated to a wheelchair after a shooting but is hardly limited by his disability as he pushes and prods his hand-picked team to solve the most difficult cases. This movie does not follow any of the stereo types that i have stated above which most tv dramas and movies do. Which is why the film is unique. This movie has took a completely different root and shown that not all disabled people are venerable, incapable, unattractive etc. Its shows that disabled people can sucseed and are not incapble of doing 
everything. 


Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Representation Of Gender In Luther

In the extract given, the representation of gender is unusual. The man in the extract he is called John Luther. He is represented an an unstereotypical man, The women in the scene (Alice) asks him a lot of questions and seems to be integrating him when stereotypically it would be the opposite way round. This represents him as having a lack of power. Also Alice try's to break him down by talking about his marriage which he starts to go emotional about and goes quite, this is unstereotypical of a man to do as they are known to hide there emotion. Luther resist a sexual advance form alice this is un stereotypical of a man to do as they would normal leap at the opportunity this represents him as being strong willed. The Women who is called alice comes across as an unstereotypical women. She is represented to be strong willed and does not show any emotion this is shown when her dog gets burnt she does not seem bothered about it at all. When talking to Luther she seems to be more in charge and she is the one asking the questions not answering which is unstereotypical as stereotypically the man is normally in charge. She also is represented as manipulative trying to get get Luther to lose control and get angry by winding him up. She is intelligent and knows the female and male dynamic (sex) and ttys to use it on him to connect with him. Another way Alice is represented as very sexual as she expresses her experiences and feelings about it confidently, this is un stereotypical as women are usually quite secure and do not tell other people about there experiences who they aren't close to. Now I'm going to talk about the mise en scene, The clothes that Luther is wearing are very stereotypical he is wearing business dress and the colours are dark greys. He has a 'Manly' haircut as people would say which is a basic crew cut. Also he has a beard which comes across 'Manly'. The clothes that Alice is wearing is again business dress and dull colours which does not come across as very feminine. Also in the scene we see Alice's flat, it is very boring, tidy and clean and almost looks like an office and does not look at all homely which is very unstereotypical. Also in the clip she's talks about a picture of a black hole and refers to 'evil' which represents her as being evil and a psychopath. In the Camerawork at the start there is a pan shot to set the scene. When they enter the room the camera shots are predominately over the shoulder and mid shots as the conversation gets more heated the camera shots turn into close up shots and eventually they are both in the shot which is could a two shot and it is close up. Then it goes back to mid/long shots. When they are staring at each other Luther is shown at a lower angle to make him look taller where as Alice In the clip is shown at a higher angle making her look smaller this is showing that the man is more dominant and the women is looking up to him which is a stereotypical view of the gender roles. Sound, there is non - diegetic sound when alice is talking about the black hole this adds tension to scene. Diagetic sound, Luthers voice, he speaks clearly and confidently this represents him as a confident man witch is a stereotypical representation. Alice's voice is calm and innocent which is stereotypical but this does not represent what she is actually like at all as she comes across as manipulative and evil. The editing in the clip, when one person is talking it puts the camera on the person who is not talking so you can see the retain of what they are saying to them.  

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

The Gaze Blurred Lines


Blurred lines video



In the video 'Blurred Lines'  by Robin Thicke ft. T.I., Pharrell there is a lot of sexual content where girls are presented not wearing very clothes and doing sexual posses and dancing. 

This picture is a clip of one of the girls in the video. As you can see the girl is wearing little clothing and is in a sexual stance and has a sexual facial expression. This is done to attract the male viewer and to get the video more well known and then people will watch it to see the sexual content in the video. 

This is another screenshot from the video, the girl is only wearing her pants and then covering her breast with a foam glove. this is very dealing she is also looking Robbin Thicke (The man) in the eyes making it look sexual.