Negative and Positive Stereotypes..

Age

Negative: Teenagers; moody, grumpy, rude, trouble, drinking & drugs, music, mibile phones, ipods, loud, gangs, killing, on the news

Positive: Teenagers; Hard working, strive until achievement, determined, well behaved, good attitude towards life



Gender: Negative: Men; Lazy, alcohol, drugs, not hard working at all.
Women; Drinking, lazy, slags, short clothing

Positive: Men; hard working, jobs, money, music, sports, driving
Women; Housewives, jobs, driving, money, good mothers


Race: Negative; racism, colours, black's are trouble, whites are druggies, asians smell

Positive: Multi-cultural society, mixes of race, different beliefds brought together


Social class: Negative: Lower status is looked down at, no money, no jobs,no home, tramps

Positive: Higher status is looked up at, money, homes, jobs, reputation



Ability & Disability:
Negative: Useless, difficult, hard to look after, a burden, can't do anything, waste of space

Positive: Different, special, caring, loving

90210: Cameraworks- Age...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf0NnVNrvEw

In this episode of the teenage drama 90210, cameraworks in used to represent age. In my experience of watching this series through, cameraworks is used a lot in order to show the age of person.

Through the first 1-2minutes of the episode, we see two of the teenage girls having a discussion based on boy troubles. Through a close up shot of the two girls', we can see their reactions of what one another is saying. The audience can see that the two characters are talking to one another due to the talking space left in the shots.

It's through the close up that we see how each person is reacting. In terms of Age, the conversation that the two characters are having suggests a typical teenage conversation about 'a high school crush.'

Also, through the camera works, we see how old the character is. through a long shot, the mis-en-scene shows what items of clothing the girl is wearing. She is wearing green and white high heels, white skinny jeans and a green sleeveless top. When the camera is on a long shot we can see that she is a teenager aged between 16-18 because she is wearing fashionable clothes and struting down her school hallway like she is on a catwalk.

Through the use of different shots, age is represented. We see a two shot of a mother and father having an arguement and through the two shot, their age is represented and we can see that they are aruging about an adult issue because we see reactions later in the close up of the mother.

Skins: Editing..

Through out this episode, there are several editing techniques used in order to represent the characters.

In the first scene, there is the title which comes up. This comes up after the girl is shown with no clothes other than under clothing. In white and suttle brown writing, the word freak comes up.

This is shown through editing as there is a small splogde shaped circle which says 'Freak' in the middle to show the title of the programme.

There are also edits such as credits, and other important titles.

For example: The name of the makers, directors and other important people in the programme come up.

Freak: Ethnicity..

The idea that one girl alone has got no choice other than to stand out from the rest of the group shows us that she is not wanted or not liked. This is clearly represented through camera works more than anything else.

We see clearly that the young teenage girl is always by herself and is called a 'Freak' by her step-brother all the time. This is represented through the camera works. We see this representation of camera works when there is a long shot of the girl all by herself. Throughout the clip of the episode, we also see the girl in a close up shot. We see that she has got no make up on and doesn't do much to her hair. This tells us that she does not fit in to the group of 'girlie girls' at all. This can also be classified as mis-en-scene because it's what is including in her props and costumes section.

There is also the group of 'rowdy' or 'rough' teenagers. These are the step-brother's friends and all of their friends. They are loud, messy and do things that they are not supposed to be doing. We see this from sound such as foul speech, shouting and screaming & arguements. We also this from editing. We can see clearly that the step-brother using a large metal tool in order to break open a swimming centre with his girlfriend and the rest of his friends. This is another group of people who are different from the girl.

Snowball effect review..

Snowball effect is a bit like some form of Documentry rather than a film. It is a documentry based on the come about of the film 'Clerks' and the work and effort behind it. It talks about how the film was distributed and bought in order to market, how the film was discovered, how the film was written, how the film was financed for and how it was later found to be sold on DVD.

It also shows us how Smith cares about his fans and through this documentry we see how hard he works on this film in order to put it across carefully and hit the right target audience. Through the 90minutes of the film, it takes us through Smith's years through high school and all of his following and previous years. It tells us what hard work he went through so that the film was distributed correctly.

Through this documentry, he managed to show his target audience what he was aiming to do and how he was aiming to please. He also used it as a distribution purpose to make his target audience aware of the film and what it is about. The name 'SnowBall Effect' was infact a line used in the film Clerks itself by one of the main characters.

Freak: Gender..

Gender

We see both female gendered characters as well as male gendered characters. Each character represents who they are through all four Mis-en-scene, editing, camerawork and sound.

We see the gender of the girl however it is not put across as a girl. We only make awareness of it being a girl after she says ‘..But I’m a girl!’ Through mis-en-scene the girl is put across as a boy. She has a short boy hairstyle which makes it difficult to tell whether she is a girl or not. She also wears baggy joggers and wears a sky blue baggy hooded jacket. Later through the episode, she puts on a cap showing us that she may not like her hair. Later she sits on a computer to play online PS3 games of some kind represented what she enjoys as a girl however she we do not get the idea that she is a girl because we never see her doing anything girly. She has not been given the stereotypical view of a girl who enjoys wearing pretty clothes, doing hair & make up and so forth. She is put across as a dull girl who would have rather been a boy because of the way she behaves and reacts to things.

We also see girls who are very girly. For example, her step brother’s girlfriend was wearing a red short dress which had white dots all over it making her look like a ladybird. Also, she had her done nicely in curls and set into place with hair grips and clips. She also was wearing a lot of make up. This tells us that she is a girly character who enjoyed dressing up and looking good.

Then we see a group of boys who were good friends. They enjoyed proper ‘boyish’ stuff such as play station and online games.

Freak: Representation of age..

Age

Age is represented through the mis-en-scene used.

At the start of the series, we see a young teenage girl with a ‘boy cut’ hairstyle which was very short and she was wearing a step brother’s clothes. This represented her character. As well as this, it told us that she was a tomboy and wasn’t into girly stuff however was more into something that we would expect a boy to enjoy. She was a dull character who generally put herself across as a dark person. We see her age through this because she didn’t go out a lot and she didn’t have the latest hairstyles, clothing items, etc which told us that therefore she was a young girl, maybe around the age of 13 or 14, just getting into her teenage years. She also enjoyed playing video games with her step brother and his friends however because she was younger, they never let her join in.

In difference to the above, age is represented through the camera works. Her step brother looks around the age of 17 or 18. We know this because we see how he behaves around his friends and his girlfriend. Age is shown when he gives his step sister a £10 note. We know this makes him an older person because he money which means he may be earning with a job or be in charge and hold power, telling us that he is older than her. He also spends a lot of his nights and days out with friends or at parties. We see one specific scene where him and his girlfriend break into a swimming pool centre and then invite all of their friends around to have a party. Age is represented through editing as well. The edits are done to show us reactions and behaviour of each character.