1. British Soap Opera
Episode aired on
12/09/2011

2. • Lighting: • Facial expression:
• Naturalistic .• Male looking harsh, menacing - frowning • Plain brick
wall
• Positioning: • Game
• Male towering machine
above woman –
takes up • Looks
majority of the simple/bor
frame in ing/
comparison to cheap.
the female.
• Ap p e a r a nce :
• Appearance:
• De n i m j a cke t
• Wearing a • B lo n d e h a i r .
suit.
• Looking smart.
• Business man. • Facial expression:
• Female looking happy/ditsy – smiling.

3. • Talking ‘down’ to woman
• Bored, uninterested; • Rude
Just making • Bringing up her past
conversation
• Hints at her being a
Trying to be polite. stripper

4. • A selection of mid shots and
over the shoulder shots –
naturalistic, aids narrative.
• It is more the dominant
positioning of the men in the
shot that highlights them
rather than the position or
movement of the camera.

5. The representation
of the white
working class
-film

6. Submarine portrays a husband and wife, the wife a housewife and the man stuck in a dead end
job he did not wish to be in, a stereotypical factor of the working class family. The man is shown
looking run down, with long hair and a beard to further show his lack of enthusiasm and care for
himself. The woman always looks clean and pristine, constantly worrying about her hair,
showing she wants change in her life but cannot get out of the rut she is in.
One of the main plots of the story stems from the unhappiness of these roles and the boredom of
a never changing daily routine. This is what kick starts the plot, allowing for an interesting
change of habit to take place in which all participating parties life's get affected.
The subject of jobs plays a big part in most working class storylines as the people usually do not
have jobs (The Full Monty) or the jobs are boring/low paid. This means the characters want a bit
of excitement in their life, in the case of “Submarine,” the woman starting an affair. This then
allows another story to stem as we watch the son keep an eye on his parents relationship, to try
and help revive it and to try and stop it falling apart.

7. Throughout the film there are scenes of young people smoking, bullying and committing acts
of arson. However this is not portrayed in a particularly negative light, as it is shown through
the eyes of the pretentious lead, who finds these acts fun and tried to justify them throughout
the film by saying it doesn't matter if it is only every now and again.
Near the start of the film we see an overweight girl get bullied out of school by the leads; in
response to this the main character writes her a letter advising her on “how not to get bullied.”
This is ironic as the lead himself is a victim of bullying and he is alienated from his
classmates. The film also portrays gang bullying, in which the girl gets called a “slut” and the
boy gets called “gay.” This is something that happens in many films portraying the working
class, such as “Fish Tank.”

8. British Sit-com

9. The main characters all male, with the prior goal of getting rich, which
they attempt to achieve by stealing and committing frauds, which would
always end in disaster. This continuous plot line can easily portray a
negative representation of all working class families, but as it is
evidently a sit-com, it has been overly exaggerated.
Their general costume appears to have a consistent theme, with one of
the characters always wearing a fur coat, to give an idea of being rich,
but only comes across as a ‘dealer’ with the look of being fake. Another
character only wears sluggish, 1990’s clothes, but still comes across as
being shabby.
The third character changes half way through the
series, but he wears a ‘miners’ cap, and trench coat,
with dark coloured vest tops over shirts. This
character also comes across as shabby and poor. All
characters are old fashioned, with a sense of pride of
themselves, as they are always smoke cigars etc,
which portrays them as feeling wealthy, even though
they are evidently not, which is being broadcasted as
a stereotype for all working class people.

10. The main characters within the programme are all working class
males, living in the known deprived suburban area; Peckham, in
South London, which is more commonly known as the ‘poorer’
area.
There is 3 of them, all fully grown, all living in a ‘shabby’ flat
together, which has uneven décor and an un-styled theme.
Amongst the filth of the apartment lies stolen goods, or items in
which they plan to sell off for a profitable value.
This deprived state of living, and their
form of income could come across to the
audience as a collective representation of
the British working class. However, the
audience may take it with ‘a pinch of salt’
as their awareness that the show is a
sitcom, may interfere with the portrayal of
the working class.

11. Dialogue and Speech: The accent of all the
characters is a typical British/London accent,
and they have a tendency to insult, and use
foul language, which shows them as a
‘stereotypical’ family within society. However,
supported by the props and location, it proves
that they are not of a higher class.