Screening 2 Primeval

Mise - en - scene:
- Yellow digger
- Guns
- Shovel
- Dogs
- Cars

Camera:
- Close up of mans hand showing what he is putting down.
- High angle on the man shows power between tiger and man.
- Close up of man showing fear.
- Point of view shot when the man is on the zip wire line.
- High angle from man to tiger.
- Tracking shot showing the characters.

Sound:
- Noise of the digger
- Tigers roar
- Tense music, women vocals
- Barking of the dogs

Editing:
- Units, cuts between the sequences.
- Shot reverse shot between the man and women, the men have more time on screen showing their power.
- Editing pace changes at more intense moments.
- The tiger is edited to create the effect, continuity.

Screening 1 Primeval

- Women driving a digger shows her being masculine.
- The tiger has power over the man, as the man looks subordinate.
- The women in the digger is trying to fight off the tiger showing that the power has changed to her.
- As the man tries to distract the tiger he seems to have the power over him but acts in a feminine way by running but doesn't panic tries to be in control.
- The women has a gun and shoots the tiger again showing her being masculine.
- The women is in a mans environment which makes her act the way she does.
- The 2nd man has power over the other women in the barn as he has a gun pointing at her. She is worried about her getting dirty even though she is in the situation she is in.
- The 1st women intimidates the 2nd man as she points a gun at him.
- One of the other men picks up a shovel showing he is acting more feminine.
- Stereotypes are challenged.

Commentary analysing the storyboard

In the Dr Who sequence we created a storyboard showing that Rory had more power over everyone than anyone else did. Although there is more than one male he seems the more dominant of the two. There are two Amy's and they both acts in a masculine way as they try to save Rory when he is nearly being attacked. Our storyboard consists of an over the shoulder shot with shows the power that the character has. Also the close up represents the emotion of Rory, the Doctor and Amy. As Amy is a female it would be thought that the women are normally the subordinate of the two when in fact although she does not have the most power she doesn't act very feminine. We decided for our storyboard that we were going to do more close ups as this focuses on just the person that's in the shot.

Annotated Dr Who script

Doctor Who Series 7 Pt2

Episode: The Girl Who Waited

THE DOCTOR

“There can only be one Amy in the Tardis – which one do you want?

(2 shot)

Your choice...

RORY

This isn’t fair, You’re turning me into you.

(head and shoulders)

THE DOCTOR

Your choice Rory.

(over the shoulder)

RORY

I...

(close up)

AMY knocks on the door of the Tardis and implores the occupants

AMY

Doctor!

(over the shoulder)

Bangs again

Doctor!

(over the shoulder)

She stops, softly says

AMY

Rory...please. The look on your face when you carrier her. HER.

(close up)

Rory reacts, his hear breaking

(medium shot)

AMY

When you carried her away. You used to look at me like that. I’d forgotten how much you loved me, id forgotten how much I loved being her.

(medium shot)

Rory struggles with his decision choocing to let the future version of his wife go

(bust shot)

AMY

Amy Pond in the Tardis...with Rory Williams.

(over the shoulder)

Effectively condemning his wife to death, Rory makes his decision and locks the door to the Tardis.

(medium shot)

AMY (Now determined)

If you love me then don’t let me in. Open the door and I’ll come in – I don’t want to die, I wont bow out bravely I’ll be kicking, screaming fighting til the end.

(long shot)

RORY

Amy I love you

(close up)

AMY

I love you too. Don’t let me in. Tell Amy I’m giving her the days...the days with you. The days to come.

(close up)

RORY

I’m so so sorry

(close up)

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Gender

Relationship of power

Representation of Gender

The analysis of the Primeval sequence on how camera, editing, mise-en-scene and sound represent gender.

Camera Shot, Angle and Position

In order to show the woman is having a conversation with the man an over the shoulder shot is used for this. Next a medium close up and tracking is used to show the man walking away and his emotions that he expresses. The tractor is focused on as a long shot so the whole thing is visible and we can see everything. The shot of the man planting the rock is focused on and also zooms in so we can see what is happening, this makes the audience wonder why it has been put there as they are not aware of the reason. These shots are usually used in thrillers as ways of causing suspense without giving away what will happen.

Sound

The music used in films always creates the mood. It sounds instrumental at the beginning and calm but starts to build up and becomes louder. As the man is placing the rock down it seems like a tick noise is appearing, it makes us wonder what it going to happen now the rock is there. When the tractor is digging and the hand is found there is a sudden change in the music and we can tell that it is serious. This then causes mystery as the audience do not know why the hand is there and who's it is. As the music stops and the forest is being tracked we can tell that something or someone is there. Suspense is caused by the Tiger as it pounces towards the man. When the Tiger stops the music becomes calmer.

Mis-en-scene

Hand in the ground

Shovel

Dogs

Shovel

Tractor

Tiger

Guns

Archetypes and Stereotypes

Stereotypes happen all the time and are always shown in tv shows whereas archetypes are not as widely recognised. Holby City is a medical tv drama linked with another medical tv drama Casualty, both have a few stereotypes of different jobs that men and women do. A doctor is thought of as being a man but in this tv drama we can see that it is a mix of both, also usually people think that men cannot be nurses when you see quite a few men doing this job. The porters of a hospital are stereotyped as men but as shown in Holby City  you can just as easily have women porters. An archetype in Holby City is one of the doctors 'Jac Naylor' she seems all serious, headstrong, opinionated and quite bossy but on the inside she is quite emotional and there is a different side to her as she just puts on a front, she is quite insecure. 'Michael Spence' is chauvinistic, arrogant and self-centred that is just the way he is and how he comes across. 'Elliot Hope' another member of Holby City is perceived as being clever but also very soft maybe as far as to even say a bit gullible. In casualty 'Charlie Fairhead' is Senior Charge Nurse, portrayed as indispensable, trustworthy and a diplomatic member of the team, whereas 'Zoe Hanna' is described as strong, cheeky, rebellious, very selfish, very righteous, very rude and self-centred. She seems a hard person.

By these examples we can see that there is obviously more to a person than meets the eye and also stereotypes are normally shown as being negative towards people instead of true perceptions.