2. Regional Identity – Key Questions
• Can I identify where the characters are from within the
country?
• Are people from different areas/regions shown as
having different interests, personalities,
values/attitudes, behaviours? If so, how?
• Is their regional identity represented as being
important in their life?
• Are people from particular regions represented as
better, more intelligent, more powerful, than people
from other regions?
3. Regional Identity – Key Questions
• Are people from particular regions portrayed as being
different /weaker/ less intelligent than others?
• How do characters in the clip treat and respond to
any characters from different regions?
• What messages or values is the clip is trying to
portray about regional identity?
• Are there any obvious binary opposites represented in
different regional identities?
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNf-MwxTSE
Analyse how each of the following have constructed the
representation of regional identity in this extract from Doc
Martin:
• Camera angle, shot, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene
