moving images

movement - female - simple, straightforward, man moves mainly showing main  focus is on him as he is in the foreground of the shot . his movement is  most dominant. professional. gentle







masculine - aggressive movements- shaking of the camera- femine more chaotic and intimidating.  shaking highlighting imperfections- masculine opposed to feminine as  is more delciate and perfect. agitated and fast pace- males are adventrous agressive.

gendering camera - technical area's

masculine- composition positioned further forward than the female and is taller than her. highlighting dominance and power. 

feminine- composition- foreground highllighting importance- highlights her expression-weaker. 

masculine- composition- he is positioned higher than her to highlight his power and agreive, intimidating, protective. 

feminine- lighting 

feminine- low angle shot- symbolizes her power she is intimidating appears taller. the gun is in the foreground which highlights its potential danger and she is controlling this weapon-  power over destructive weapon. 

feminine- weak, blood highlights element of defeat, needs help, gun is used to protect himself - shows needs help and protecting which is feminine. angle - high angle - looking down on him delevating his status he's not symbolized as intimidating

feminine - movement - positioned in a sexual inciting manner. which is feminine as they are represented as wanting to be appealing to men. composition- bum and legs in foreground to highlight sexuality and shows her to be attractive which is feminine.  lighting - glowing feminine emphasizes her skin complexion - beauty. 

masculine- composition as a male is in the foreground- challenges the convention of a typical high angle shot as they still appear intimidating. whcih is masculine as they are strong, intimidating and powerful. females in the background and males in the front highlighting there are more important in command and in charge.  females blurred less significant and not important, lighting- sharp and defined see there outlines clearly, appear rough and aggressive. 

female- soft lighting, emphasizing beauty and grace/elegance, stereotypical representation of female ender is to be attractive. composition in the foreground highlights power and importance. slightly high angle which is weaker. 

lighting- everything is dark but the man is in bright light showing his power and importance , should be only looking at him. - business impression is created through he looks professional. slightly low angle looking up at him he is the dominant figure in this photo. 

typical stereotypes of genders

mother - caring, protective,

house wife-obedient, weak, tired, powerless 

bread winner- aggressive, powerful, dominant, strong

secretary  - dumb, attractive,

Alpha female - powerful, controlling, dominating 

Alpha male - powerful, controlling, dominating

post modern masculine  man, geeks ,no interest in sport, not very aggressive

sexual object, male gaze, attractive

This video represents verbally my analysis of the T.V drama- The street

IT crowd - Analysis of how Gender is portrayed- how it challenges and reinfroces masculine stereotypes.

The IT crowd challenges the representation of men and how they should be expeceted to act within society. In series 3 Episdoe 2 it focuses on the two main charatcers trying to fit in with other men, due to them having different interests and acting in a way that would not be socially expected or acepted of men. For example, they both do not like football. This challenges the steretypcial represntation of the male gender due to men being repsresented as enjoying sport ecspecaily football and to support a team and to watch or go watch  football macthes reguraly. Howvwer as they do not fit this persona of the typcial man they are challenging this stereotype to reinfroce the idea that not all men enjoy football, and therefore challenging how society will perceive them. The episdoe continues  and shows that if these to men do not act in a way that is socaillly expeeted of them to they would be condifered, outcasts- odd, different, not a typical man. Therefroe, they pretend to enjoy footblall to fit in. This also shows that men have to require these steretypes anf fufill the typial persona of  a male to fit in to a group otherwise they wmay appear not masculine. Which is typcially looked down upon within the masculine society.  It also highlghts how it is importnat ofr  amn to not loose his masulinity as he will therefore not fit in. Men often do this subconscously and will act in a way that is appeared ordinary and acceptableto maintian this persona. This episode also suggets that men must enjoy football as it can be an agressive, powerful , dominant  sport which is smilary steretpyical chaarcteristics of a typical man. This suggets then that if a man does not fufill these charatcerisitcs and hence not like football, he is segregating himself from his expected masculinity, delevating his status.Maurice then goes onto to say ' i want to go back to being weird' He says this in spite of the fact that he dosent like football and other things that men genrally are expected to like. Thi shows that if a man does not like masuline things such as football, he is not molding the pereception of a typcial man and therefore is challenging expectations within society and so casts himself as 'weird'.

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Framework how sound represents the social class

Framework how sound represents the social class- gender- how they are represented form this and how this challenges or reinforces there genders on society. From the series ‘the street’

Step one feminine- women character is represented as feminine uses quiet, soothing sounds- to infer her motherly side. Stereotypical for a female to be motherly as a mother is represented as the one who looks after children. Typical motherly role.

Masculine- shouting- shows aggressions and power installing authority into the male. Stereotypical representation for the male is to be dominant which is apparent in this character. As he raises his voice to be seen as intimidating and in control.

Feminine- represented as being a sexual object to males- content to wanting ot please the male gender. Through when eating the food’ the slurping noises’ hint the suggestion of sexual frustration which is foreshadowed when she has the affair with the other man. Represents women as specially being a sexual object to men.  Also highlights women to being disposables the man had cheated on his wife.

 

Step two- power- man and women both dominant as shouting which exerts power and authority.  however they both have moments when both genders are singularly most dominant. For example-  noise of dishwasher water spraying everywhere is loud, piercing  and aggressive- stereotypical characteristics of a masculine persona therefore this noise is masculine. Subsequently, this masculine sound is dominant amongst any other sounds, which impersonates the male character as the woman cannot deal with the noise as stereotypically symbolizes as weaker and unaware about technology. However,  technology is within a mans territory of knowledge, therefore the man inverts authority and takes on the task of diminishing the sound, implying that the male character has the dominating role.

Step 3- man acting in a way that is socially excepted for example is shouting, raising his voice exerting an aggressive typical dominant male. Trying to exert authority to show he is in charge of the argument and his points are significant, he raises his voice as he wants to be heard and listened too, this makes him look normal as males are represented frequently as being dominant and in charge.

Step 4- This reinforces male stereotypes as he is reinforcing and idolising himself around a typical male persona so that no social pressures are inflicted onto him, must live up and act in a way that is socially accepted and expected.