Regional Identity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfd6tVqCS5s&feature=related

Representation of regional identity- The only way is Essex

PEE CHAIN.

Camera angles-

Most have fake boobs, whitened teeth, hair extensions, fake nails, fake tan. High heels

One of the girls says she ‘wants it to be natural ‘ followed by ‘inject me up’ contradicting herself, representing Essex as being stupid.

The girls are talking about having their boobs done and their teeth whitened at the party, no real important conversations. Representing

Editing-

Continuity editing is used by the drama showing the botox being inserted upstairs and the rest of the party going on downstairs.

Sound-  Non-diegetic music such as the song ‘flawless’ by George micheal is played in the background of the girls walking down the road. indicating that these girls have an expectation to live up to. Their costumes represent this by looking immaculate with big high heels (that they cant walk in), big handbags, big sunglasses. They look like celebrities except they aren’t.

 ‘Why are you not having it done babes?’- almost as if it’s a crime that one of the girls doesn’t want to have botox done. ‘if you don’t have it done then you are going to be well jel’

Mise en scene-

In our first scene we have three people at a gym due to the mise en scene of running machines and their costumes being gym wear. However we see an instant regional identity representation due to the fake tans, fake nails, fake boobs and a face full of make up even eyelashes at the gym. An expectation of a supposed ‘essex’ look. This shows the area which these people come from i.e. Brentwood, they come from money and are at a luxurious gym.

The dialect used is not pronounced properly  such as ‘em’ instead of ‘them’  and ‘me’ instead of ‘my’ representing a chavy representation.  Although they come from money their accents do not represent this. They are constantly addressing each other as ‘babe’

Close up shots of the girls faces are commonly used, showing the amount of make up they are wearing to work out at the gym. Even wearing full lash extensions, which is really unnecessary for the gym ( a work out)

Eastenders Clip

Eastenders clip. Representation of social class. Bianca steals and gets arrested *need to do sound*

At the beginning we get a mid shot of Bianca looking at the perfume, preferably planning what shes about to (eg. Steal the perfume) Close up of the perfume,

Bianca is wearing big golden hoop earrings (lots of bling going on) compared to Janine who is wearing a smart coat representing a more aspirational middle class than JANINE. Janine is paying for the perfume on the stall which is placed in a working class market, no real upper class/middle class jobs, all very local. Janine speaks nicer than Bianca.

Janine puts the perfume in Biancas face almost as to show off that she can buy the perfume which angers Bianca. Janine is very smug when she walks off.

She hasn’t got enough money for xmas presents so shes stealing them. Not really a working class thing to do as they would have money to pay for the presents.

Over shoulder shot.

Reaction shots when conversation takes place

Mid shot

Extreme close up of Janine putting perfume in her bag and in her pocket

Shes outside lots of people are around- in a market the location represents the wealth of the place she lives in

Lighting is darker in her house, representing bad about to be arrested. She knows shes in the wrong. Tacky decorations.

Close up of jewellery behind the sofa- its hidden, not on display. Obviously not meant to be there, she stands by the gap of the sofa  so the police men cant see it.  Quite frantic at this moment chucking pillows about. Mouthing off to the police officer.

Editing is slow throughout the clip

Bianca ends up wacking the police officer. Stereotypically- Police officer in common police outfit. Looks Shocked once she’s lashed out.

Bianca gets feisty  and aggressive, shouting at the police officer(her body language)

Theres a clip of her family. Tiffany is wearing tracksuit bottoms.

Close up of her in the police car once shes been arrested (point of view for us)

With regards to the setting the market is an open space full of other people whereas when she is at home in her lounge she is almost locking in the room and cant scape (closed in) she knows shes going to be caught.

Essay

Isabel Duce  Media Studies.  Tv Drama. 1st + 5^th December. Page one
Essay: Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of ethnicity

This clip shows many different representations of ethnicity such as Jamaican in the first scene of the two black men, The second scene shows Japanese and eastern European.

The first scene consists of a reaction shot which happens when a black hotel waiter reacts to seeing an ex friend of his nicknamed ‘tel’ in the hotel he is working at. It is clear that he is shocked and embarrassed to see this old friend as he looks embarrassed and scratches his head and even looks around him to see if anyone is looking. He is very eager to ‘get back to the desk’

The angles from the over the shoulder shots are key when the black men first meeting in the first scene. The angle is looking up to the hotel worker whereas the angle (from over the hotel workers shoulder) to the resident of the hotel is looking down the effect of this is to show the representation of the different classes the men both have even though we know that they both are from the same ethnicity however they are now in different classes as the scene uses mise en scene as we have the brightly coloured swimming shorts of the hotel guest to represent the Jamaican colours and all the ‘bling’ worn on the men. However the black hotel workers suit uniform is a signifier because the signified message is his costume of being smartly dressed and is working at the hotel, working hard to earn his money as the other one (the guest) has hardly any clothes on and speaks about the ‘ganga’ , ‘top top ladies’ and partying. The black hotel worker is coming away from the ‘typical’ stereotype of young black men.

This scene uses mise en scene as we have the brightly coloured swimming shorts to represent the Jamaican colours and all the ‘bling’ worn on the men. However the hotel workers uniform is a signifier because the uniform is signified message is that

We have a zoomed shot of the hotel worker when the customer says  ‘that’s the old benjamin’

In the very first scene we see a guest of the hotel, Dressed in white who is placed in the corner in the light who is being served by the black man  dressed in a black suit who is in the dark  this could represent whose higher up in status.

We know the maids are foreign due to their accents, maybe eatern european.  The more confident maid stands there waiting for the music to be played with her hand on her hip whereas the less confident maid stands there with her arms together very nervously. The representation of the maids is contrasting because the more confident maid who has obviously done this before  as she knows the man ‘pays double for double’ is wearing black underwear compared the other maid who clearly has never done this before is wearing white and a cross. White signifies purity and cleanleness. This is again the different representations of  people in the same ethnicity.

The representation of the japanese man also known as a ‘regular’ is shown as a very rich. He is paying for the maids to dance for him.

There are many digetic and non digetic noises throughout the extract. The first noise we hear is the digetic (natural) sound of the splashing of the pool which is then interrupted by the man coming out of the pool and calling upon the hotel worker. In the maid part we have a ‘mission-themed’ tune played throughout the maids speaking about whats going to happen.