This document provides guidance for analyzing how elements of film technique like camera work, editing, sound, and mise-en-scene are used to represent aspects of characters like their gender, social class, or nationality. It instructs the reader to analyze a clip and note what each element reveals about the characters and then explain it in terms of the filmmaking techniques. The reader is also reminded to consider how all of these elements work together to tell us something about the characters.

1. Revision: TV Drama

2. Remember your aim…….. Camera shots, angles, movement and composition. Editing. Sound. Mise-en-scene How do these things construct a representation of gender?

3. Analyse this clip. What do mise-en-scene, use of camera, editing and sound say about the ‘social class’ of characters?

4. Camera shots What types exist? Why might they be used?

5. Camera angles: Which exist? Why might they be used?

6. Camera Movement Which exist? Why might they be used?

7. Editing What types of editing are there? What is their use?

8. Sound What could the following include? Diegetic sound Non-diegetic sound.

9. What does mise-en-scene cover?

10. So think……. How does mis-en-scene, camera, editing and sound tell us something about the gender (for example) of the characters? Remember, you might be asked about age, social-class, nationality or ‘race’ in the exam.

11. Let’s look at this clip……. What do mise-en-scene, use of camera, editing and sound say about the ‘nationality’ of the characters?

12. Your area to analyse is: Mise-en-scene

13. Your area to analyse is: Camera angles, shots, movement and composition

14. Your area to analyse is: Editing

15. Your area to analyse is: Sound

16. In summary: Note down what Then explain what you see in terms it says about of editing, sound, gender (or age, camera, ‘race’, class….) mise-en-scene… of characters.