eastenders

We see a static shot of Alfie moon walking down a street, Mise en scene denotes shops on the street, and he walks past a dry cleaners and a news agents, Alfie is also carrying bags which suggests that he has been out shopping. This is representative of life within a working class communal area as it has houses, and shops. The camera then cuts to the Mise en scene of a pub and background lighting is used to create this dimly lighted pub, we have a 180-degree shot with the camera showing 8 or 9 women all shouting. The camera then cuts to a shot opposite to show a young boy looking very confused and quite frightened.


The women within the pub all range between the ages of 20 to about 60 years of age, this represents how all members of society like to socialise, and in this particular scenario at there local pub which is open to all people of the area. Costume denotes the way gender is portrayed within society, we see Kat at the head of all the leering and shouting, wearing a low cut top, Jewellery and an excessive amount of make up. This could possibly be a representation of the average working class women in London.

A long shot of Alfie and Spencer hugging connotes an example of family values within society and this is an example of brotherly love. We then cut to a zoom out shot of a living room, which belongs to the Beale family; mise en scene denotes 3 characters sat on the sofa looking worried about another member of the Beale family. We also see an extreme close up during this excerpt of a camera, which has been given to the boy whom is moving away, and it is showing a picture of Ian and his wife, this again presents this idea of love and family values.

Sound plays an important part within soap operas, as they are a representation of reality background music is not needed, therefore ambient sound of traffic and people talking in the street, which is quiet in order to hear what is going on with the dialogue.

Cuts from different family situations, we see the older generation, a family situation, a pub scene in which Spencer moon is mistaken for a stripper and the ladies within the pub throw themselves at him, and this is because Spencer is Alfie moons brother.

Crime Dramas: Life on Mars.

An essential part in a crime drama is the crime itself here we can see the victim of a brutal shooting this occurs very often in TV crime shows as it is extremely essential in order for the story line to work within this drama.















In a Tv crime drama, depending on who it is the series follows you need police investigators or detectives so that they can solve the problem. In these programmes the problem being a crime of some sort. Another example taken from life on mars considers this there are detectives here who are called to asses the scene of the crime, also as you can see here these characters are all men, it could be valid to say that this could conclude to some sort of gender stereotype.

















Work place, this is representative a a general police station which meetings take place, here we can clearly see the different characters and heirarchy. The detective cheive is most likely to be the male figure sat at the desk here.


















Here we see a clip of a strong women detective/police figure, this clip is from the spin off series to Life on Mars. So female dominant characters can also be presented in Tv crime dramas.