This documentary follows a group of strippers at the Glasgow club "Diamond Dolls" and aims to provide understanding of their lives and challenge stereotypes about strippers. Visual codes like low lighting in the club and interviews focusing on the faces rather than bodies aim to give insight beyond the stereotypes. While the strippers fit some stereotypes like being young and skinny, the documentary shows they have ambitions beyond stripping and more complexity to their identities and lives.

1. STRIPPERS.BY ROSIEE AND BETH.

2. INTRODUCTION
Strippers is a programme following a group of strippers from
the Glasgow club ‘Diamond Dolls’. It focuses on the
profession, giving the audience more understanding towards
the life of a stripper. It challenges the typical stereotype of
what a stripper actually is, encouraging the audience in to
watch more, and find out about these girls personal
lives, and how they got into the profession.

3. VISUAL CODES
The low key lighting when showing the actual job, could be a
connotation of the audience being in the dark about how life
actually is for a stripper.
The stereotype is challenged to a certain extent by the fact
that they don’t behave within the way you would expect, as
they each have big ambitions with their future. However they
are living up to the stereotype, as they are all skinny and
beautiful.
Your expectations of a stripper is to wear a minimum amount
of clothing at all times, other than the scenes from Diamond
Dolls, the girls seem to wear a lot of clothing in other places.

4. AUDIO CODES
The only use of diegetic sounds tends to be the interviews
with the characters involved with the show this could signify
each stripper being isolated from society because of their job
and only being accepted at their actual job.
The non diegetic music tends to be more upbeat, this could
relate to the target audience which, in this case, would be
both men and women between the ages of 16 and 25.

5. TECHNICAL CODES
Close-ups are used throughout the programme of the
strippers at work, emphasises the body part that the
audience tend to look at more.
Interviews tend to be focusing waist upwards as a mid
shot, this focuses more on their facial expressions and
emotions rather than their body, where as when they are
shown doing their jobs long shots are used. This juxtaposes
their work life and social life.
The programme cross cuts between the girls at
work, interviews in different locations and the streets, this
reinforces their identities showing that there is more to the
them then their actual job.

6. MISE EN SCENE
Kim works at Diamond Dolls, the camera shows her sitting at
her pole wearing nothing but ugg boots and underwear being
interviewed, this draws the focus towards her body, this is
quite ironic as it could signify her wanting to be accepted
within society as an individual however society expects a
bare minimum from her because of her job, therefore her
wearing a minimum amount of clothing can represent her
place within society.
In this particular scene, Kim is covering her body, this could
represent her wanting some privacy within her body as
usually all eyes are on her body.

7. REPRESENTATION
Throughout the programme your typical stereotype of a
stripper is contradicted. It shows arguments for and
against stereotypes of strippers, each stripper shown
within show tends to be a young skinny female with long
hair which is the expectation of a female stripper.
However, they are un-stereotypical in the way that they are
portrayed to be just typically normal young girls that just
want to earn some money and have big aspirations for
their future.

8. PREFERRED, OPPOSITIO
NAL & NEGOTIATED.
The preferred readers
for ‘Strippers’ may be
young adults that may
be able to relate to the
individuals shown.
The negotiated readers
for this programme
may be middle aged
people as they will
have mixed emotions
towards the situation.
Oppositional, the elder
generation for example
parents as they may not
agree with the situation.
They wouldn’t want to
see their own child in
this way.