Gender portrayed in Hustle

Gender portrayed in Hustle

In this episode of the TV drama Hustle, gender is presented in many different ways with stereotypes being conveyed throughout. In TV dramas stereotypically we expect females to be rather over dramatic, likes shopping, perfect, make-up, clean and classy. The males tend to act like the alpha male, strong, have high paid jobs, and into football and rugby and usually. There are six characters that I am going to look at and analyse including their behaviour and appearance and whether I think it fits in with the general stereotype type of male and females.
In the first scene we see as shop which is clearly designer we can tell this due to the fact that there are very few items of clothing and the layout seems very orderly. Also the very few items that they do have all look very expensive in different kind of ways. Therefore we expect the type of customer to be a rich, classy female/male who knows what they want in life. Whereas when it cuts to the men’s club we expect to see the men laughing, drinking, smoking and joking and just generally having a laugh, with often taboo language being used regularly.
The first scene is in the designer clothing store, with back lighting, cream shades and chic dresses, then the camera pans onto an older lady who seems to look out of place with grey hair, piled up messily. She pulls out a dress which is out of her price range. The shop assistant is extremely condescending towards her, and only gets on with rich people, therefore wants this lady out of his shop as soon as possible.
Once the elder lady who is looked down upon by the shop assistant scurries out, the camera immediately goes to the other lady in the shop, called Sarah, who is part of the scandal which is about to take place. The camera starts on her ring, a huge diamond wedding ring. This portrays wealth, and the shop assistant skips over to her almost as if he is excited. This displays a very feminine side to the shop assistant and goes completely against the stereotype of the alpha male.
The next scene is presented with a ‘wipe’ editing technique, and the sound effects to go with it. This links to the idea that she is in a changing room. The shot is over the shoulder and mirrored so that the audience can see the back of the dress with the crystals and the reaction that the dress provides. I noticed that there was a slight drum roll after the shop assistant reveals the price, as to whether she was going to buy the dress or not. This is very clever from the editor as from an audiences position we are more than likely to nice this technique subconsciously without us really taking note of it.
On the other hand we are introduced to some more characters, which are in a different setting, of a men’s club with no female company. The surroundings are darker in terms of the colours in the mise en scene also in contrast to the very clean and sharp setting of the shop the men’s club comes across to be significantly more dirty and congested this may be due to the fact that there is often smoking and drinking occurring. Also it isn’t hard to notice the poor lighting. it isn’t very well lit. We see an older American man who would be stereotypically be classed as ‘posh’ as he was dressed well, with a silk handkerchief in his pocket. We later on realise that the well-dressed man is trying to con the other man, who is dressed in all black, and looks too scruffy to be in the men’s club. The American man is getting the scruffy man drunk in order for the con to take place smoothly.
The scene is swiftly changed by another ‘wipe’ edit, this time with a non-diegetic sound of a zip, which goes back to the designer store. The camera then focusing on the woman’s bag. The camera quality seems to have changed to a hand held camera, as it seems shifty and jerky, which portrays panic in the scene, and moves around with Sarah round the shop. The lady is screaming and is hysterical which matches the stereotype of a ‘typical female’. ‘My husband will kill me’, this implies that the ring is incredibility expensive and is the prize possession for the woman. She is playing the role as a typical ditzy, female blonde. Within this scene Sarah breaks the 4th wall, by quickly giving eye contact to the audience (camera). This then engages and involves the audience to be part of the chaos that is occurring.
IN the next scene we cut to the shop assistant frantically searching for this ring that Sarah has ordered him to find in turn for a cash reward, suddenly a man with blonde hair walks into the shop. There is then a slow pan up his body, with a low angle shot making him look higher in authority and the shop assistant looking vulnerable whilst scrambling to find the ring. Although the conman is dressed well, his accent is cockney which brings his status down, he is not a typical ‘business man’, as he is chewing gum, scratches his nose, and uses the term ‘bird’, for his wife. Although he is extremely streetwise and knows what he is doing and wants. He too breaks the 4th wall, by giving eye contact to the audience. The appearance of this man matches the stereotypes of the male gender in terms of his deep voice cockney voice and the fact he is chewing gum also the slang he uses matches up nicely with the stereotype. This man contrasts heavily with the feminine shop assistant which complements the scene nicely.

Representation of Disabilty in a touch of frost

Representation of Disability in a touch of frost.

When we first see Billy in the episode he is running away from the police. The police officers take him down as if he is not disabled in any way this suggest to us as an audience that he may be treated in society as no different to anyone else. The camera shot is a very fast panning shot whilst he is running through the woods, this displays action and the fast pace which everything is happening at. The producers may have done this in order to create tension in the scene. Also to add to this affect the length of the clips are very short and fast moving. The mise en scene in this specific scene is very much made up of a setting of the woods and there seems to be a wall of police officers chasing Billy.

The next scene is one in which Detective Frost is having a talk with Billy’s dad. Frost refers to Billy who is a down syndrome as mentally subnormal. Billy’s dad seems to object to this quite strongly. We can see this through his body language towards frost. The camera angle in the scene is very much from a tilted angle, almost as if we are eves dropping into the conversation. This gives us a sense that the conversation is supposed to be relatively secret.  This method is very clever from the producer as it is very subtle and most of the audience are likely not to notice it, but will subconsciously.  We also get the impression that the talk is intended to be secret due to the fact that the sounds of the characters voices are very quiet and subdued. This suggests that they don’t want Billy to hear.

The content of the next scene is very much focused on Detective Frost interviewing Billy trying to receive information about the disappearance of a young woman.  At the start of this scene we feel sorrow for Billy due to the fact that he seems very innocent in terms of the way he looks and sounds. It makes the audience feel as if he is a vulnerable character and doesn’t deserve to be quizzed like this. We get a sense of vulnerability from Billy due to the camera angle, as it is very much looking down on Billy as if to suggest that he is innocent and needs protecting. The cuts on Billy’s face also contribute to our feeling toward him. The producer may have done this in order to provoke sorrow for Billy the Character. Earlier in the episode I mentioned that the police officers in the woods seem to treat Billy in a normal way as they just rugby tackled him to the ground like any other person would be dealt with by the police if they had reason to believe they had committed a serious crime. But in this scene our view on this changes as an audience due to the fact that Detective Frost speaks to Billy in a very simplistic way which suggests to us that he feels that Billy is very much childlike and wouldn’t understand what Frost said if he spoke in complex language and grammar. So this shows us two very different ways in which Billy is treated in society. The camera shots in this scene are very much alternating between both Frost and Billy who is seen to be guilty in terms of the young woman going missing. The alternate camera shot are to show the audience Frost’s body language and feeling towards Billy. At some points whilst Frost is interviewing  Billy we can see that frustration is creeping in as Billy is not really helping by giving very simplistic answers to Frost’s questions.

The street class and status

In the street we can see that the difference in class and status is massive. In the opening sequence we can see that the two parents are arguing very violetly in front of the children who are sittng in the front room. This portrays that the family is very disjointed and broken also class is portraedugh this as we can see that the family is most probably from a low standard of living background. This so clearly displayed dude to some of the very bad language that is being used througout the arguemtnt by the farther.

In the next scene we see the farther who was very angry and frustared in the previous scene go to wrok, we can clearly see that he works in the manuel sector as he is performing somekind of contruction process this suggest again that the family and himself are lower class. We then see the father hitting something with a hammer very hard with a look of frustion and anger, this re ensates his unhappieness that we saw in the las scene whilst he was having the arguemnt with his wife in front of the children.

There is then a jump cut to a guy that lives across the road getting into his car, this guy is wearing a suit which suggests to us that he is higher up in society due to the fact that we feel he probably has an office job which is more likely to pay more than what the farther rercieves for his manuel job. We can see now that there are many class types on the street although they live in similar size houses. This is interesting as we normally think that the higher class citzen would be living in a slighlty more upper class area.

When the guy with the suit on runs over to help the wife of the manuel worker this suggests and displays that they may being having an affair wih eachother as it is not lilke it is ann unreular occurance when he runs into the house. To back this up in the later part of this scene we see that both of them are becoming intimate together this renstates what we think what may be happening surrounding the affair between them.

In the next secene the farther has arrived back home from work and he starts to watch the football with his two sons, this portrays to us that can be a caring man when he wants to be but also has another very violent side to him. Whilst him and his sons are watching the football he doesn't notice that his daughter has wandered out the house and then subsequently she gets hit by a car. The irony of the girl getting hit by the car iseven more dramtic as it is the man in the suit that hits her also this is ironic due to the fact that the guy is having an affair with the farther of the daughters wife. This enlarges the problem due to the points i have just stated.

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Skins:

Toney Stonem

Anthony "Tony" Stonem is a fictional character from the British television series Skins. Portrayed by Nicholas Hoult, the character was created by Bryan Elsley; Tony was the series' central character in its first and second series, from 2007-2008. In the first series, the character is considered an antihero, and in some respects his actions are very antagonistic due to his psychopathic tendencies. However, this changes in the second series after he becomes a victim of a subdural hematoma and, as a result, becomes more vulnerable. Hoult, along with the other starring actors of the first two series, departed the show after its second season. The character was subsequently alluded to in episodes of the third and fourth series, which centred around Tony's sister Effy, played by Kaya Scodelario. In the 2011 North American adaptation of the show, Tony is played by actor James Newman, and the character's surname is changed to Snyder.

Tony appears to be a very handsome, popular and academically gifted young man, with a typical English middle-class background. He plays cruel games with his family and friends, in particular those closest to him, his girlfriend Michelle (April Pearson) and best friend Sid (Mike Bailey). In "Sid", he displays his love for "control and manipulation" and fondness for the unpredictability of the universe, comparing the lives of those around to him to the functions of subatomic particles. In the Unseen Skins episode "The Cat & The Duck", Michelle characterises Tony as like ice, "cold and transparent."

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