Notes - The Street
- Slow and slightly dramatic sounds
- Different camera angles to possibly show emotion, close up shot of the man hammering at work- to show anger
- Medium shots
- 180 degree rule
- Panning
- Sexist- woman not able to fix a broken pipe on her own (needs another man to help)
- Shows a sense of no personal control
- Unhappy lives (within the home and relationships)
- Blame others that they love the most
- Lower/working class
- Children have the main consequences of their parents actions
- Children look like they're use to the arguments between their parents
- People always want what they feel is better and ideal
- Children for one family are quiet - use to their parents arguing, knows there is nothing they can do
- Children for the other family are louder and answer back- use to the way their parents act and copy their actions
- Car shown as a prop
- Football playing on the TV also shown as a prop
- Loud sound from the TV could show the lack of control that people now have
- Slow music to show drama
- Blame everything else apart from the real things they should be blaming (mans fault for watching football, when in reality the man who was driving wasn't looking where he was going)
- Casual clothing- lower/working class
- Business clothing - working/middle class
- Religious
- Woman maybe wants something different - exciting, new
- Dad blames the children for them being 'skint' possibly the young girl who gets hit is running away from home
- Don't confront the real problems
- A quiet street where no drama happens, everybody knows each other (shown within soap operas)
- Music shows suspense when it shows other people who live on the street
- Communities come together
- Greed- possibly why their shown eating eclairs
- Woman shown as feminine (stays at home, does the shopping, stereotypical male (watches football, works on a building site, sits on a designated chair wearing a vest- men shown to have most control and casual, possibly slobbish)
- Anger
- Dark lighting - something wrong
Exam Answer
In the clip 'The Street' it shows two different families who live within the same area and who's lives follow the same type of path until something dramatic occurs. Both families are what society would class as the average working/ middle class stereotype family, with one family wearing quite casual clothing, t-shirts, jeans and a standard comprehensive school uniform. The other slightly the same but the male of the family wearing a business suit, you can see he is still rather lower class wearing a suit possibly from somewhere affordable than a designer brand that someone who is higher class would wear.
(Step one) The clip also shows an stereotypical aspect of males and females. It shows how the woman is a stay at home mum, a stereotypical house wife. It also shows her doing shopping and she's unable to fix a broken pipe without assistance, that shows her as a feminine character. The man within the clip is also shown as an archetype of a masculine male. He watches football, works on a building site and sits in a designated arm chair to watch TV, wearing a vest which shows an aspect of a casual, slobbish male and also a sense of control. (Step three) The male shows he has more power than the woman, this makes him the dominant partner with in the family home.
'The Street' shows how the lady feels unhappy and doesn't have much self control. Due to her having an affair it shows that the underlining troubles and doubt she has are all released in different ways. It shows that she has no personal control, so can't contain her feelings when she gets a slight attraction from a male that isn't her husband. It could also show that she wants something different, something new and exciting from the average, boring day she has regularly. Also greed, that she isn't content and the clip could being showing this by watching the pair eating eclairs that shows not only greed but indulgence too. Or it could just be she is simply unhappy and is trying to find happiness but discarding her troubles.
The clip shows how the parents actions mainly have consequences on their children. Within one family the children are quiet, that their used to they're parents arguing and even though it has an effect on them they know what ever they do won't change anything, so they leave their parents marriage to crumble around them, but this is where the families different. In the other family children are more louder and answer back to their parents, it shows how they copy their parents instead of shying away from the confrontation in front of them.
The clip could show a high percentage of emotion and also along with that blame. After the young girl get hits by the car instead of blaming the reason for the accident, the woman found it easier to blame her husband for something that he didn't have any involvement with. Also the dad within the same family blames his children for the reason they're 'skint', this could be the reason why the girl got hit, she could of been running away from the issue's she has in her home life. People always want what they feel is ideal and that is what I think this clip is trying to show how it's easy to pass blame but not confront the real problems.
'The Street' doesn't show many props, but there is large involvement with a car and TV's loudly playing a football game and also a chocolate eclair which was shown in two scenes . The clip does express a lot of sound, the most significant sound I felt was the loud football game. It showed it as a diegetic sound and as the volume of the TV increased it showed the lack of control that characters didn't have. The music in the clip is also slow and slightly dramatic, also adds suspense when it shows other people that live on the street.
The clip shows a lot of different camera angles, this could be to possibly show emotion for example there was a close up shot of the man hammering at work, this could be so the audience relate to his anger, aggression and desperation that he feels towards his home life. The other shots used are 180 degree rule, panning and medium shots. The clip is shown with quite dark lighting, possibly to show there is something wrong and to produced more tension which is already being created by the actors dialogue and body language. There hasn't been much editing, with clips placed next to each other.
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(Step one) The clip also shows an stereotypical aspect of males and females. It shows how the woman is a stay at home mum, a stereotypical house wife. It also shows her doing shopping and she's unable to fix a broken pipe without assistance, that shows her as a feminine character. The man within the clip is also shown as an archetype of a masculine male. He watches football, works on a building site and sits in a designated arm chair to watch TV, wearing a vest which shows an aspect of a casual, slobbish male and also a sense of control. (Step three) The male shows he has more power than the woman, this makes him the dominant partner with in the family home.
'The Street' shows how the lady feels unhappy and doesn't have much self control. Due to her having an affair it shows that the underlining troubles and doubt she has are all released in different ways. It shows that she has no personal control, so can't contain her feelings when she gets a slight attraction from a male that isn't her husband. It could also show that she wants something different, something new and exciting from the average, boring day she has regularly. Also greed, that she isn't content and the clip could being showing this by watching the pair eating eclairs that shows not only greed but indulgence too. Or it could just be she is simply unhappy and is trying to find happiness but discarding her troubles.
The clip shows how the parents actions mainly have consequences on their children. Within one family the children are quiet, that their used to they're parents arguing and even though it has an effect on them they know what ever they do won't change anything, so they leave their parents marriage to crumble around them, but this is where the families different. In the other family children are more louder and answer back to their parents, it shows how they copy their parents instead of shying away from the confrontation in front of them.
The clip could show a high percentage of emotion and also along with that blame. After the young girl get hits by the car instead of blaming the reason for the accident, the woman found it easier to blame her husband for something that he didn't have any involvement with. Also the dad within the same family blames his children for the reason they're 'skint', this could be the reason why the girl got hit, she could of been running away from the issue's she has in her home life. People always want what they feel is ideal and that is what I think this clip is trying to show how it's easy to pass blame but not confront the real problems.
'The Street' doesn't show many props, but there is large involvement with a car and TV's loudly playing a football game and also a chocolate eclair which was shown in two scenes . The clip does express a lot of sound, the most significant sound I felt was the loud football game. It showed it as a diegetic sound and as the volume of the TV increased it showed the lack of control that characters didn't have. The music in the clip is also slow and slightly dramatic, also adds suspense when it shows other people that live on the street.
The clip shows a lot of different camera angles, this could be to possibly show emotion for example there was a close up shot of the man hammering at work, this could be so the audience relate to his anger, aggression and desperation that he feels towards his home life. The other shots used are 180 degree rule, panning and medium shots. The clip is shown with quite dark lighting, possibly to show there is something wrong and to produced more tension which is already being created by the actors dialogue and body language. There hasn't been much editing, with clips placed next to each other.
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Some Very Good analysis and inferring of meaning of the clues presented. You make some relevant points about class and gender, to improve you need to thoroughly cover the 4 technical areas - there is little interpretation of the editing and camera (frames the couple either side of the door/separate - he dominates the shot), and the locations are highly relevant.
ReplyDeleteThis demonstrates you have done some preparation & are a capable independent learner.
To improve:
E/A/A: Consider the 'Framework for Analysis': power and gender, consider the gendering of angles and whether this reenforces or challenges stereotypes. Also the maternal nature.
A: Editing can be developed to consider the prominence on screen of the characters and how what they do motivates the cut along with locations (kitchen/incapable of fixing a leak/panic/squeeling)
T: Use of terminology is good, look at the quiz on the blog to develop
Well done, with work on target for a
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