TV DRAMA - GENDER


The scene begins with a flare of back light behind a woman, this creates a silhouette of this unknown woman and creates mystery and possibly danger with the dark shadow which has been created.

Parallel editing is seen from this point on as the woman gets ready in her room with the help of another woman and the two men are traveling in a taxi. These two scenes support the stereotype of how women are seen more mature and glamorous than men as both women in the room are quiet and calm applying makeup and getting ready. The extreme close up, slow motion shot of the woman putting on her red lipstick could suggest that she's dangerous but is hiding this danger with her glamorous style, the slow motion could show her mature and sophisticated attitude which shows she takes pride in her appearance and takes along time to get ready.
 There is a selective focus on the woman as she looks at her self in the mirror with her dress on. This selective focus could show the stereotypically side to how more women are classed as vain than men are. The two men in the taxi seem to be rushed and unorganized, and wear casual black clothes. This is helped to be seen with the slow takes of the two women to show a calm atmosphere and fast takes used to show the two men showing a time of rush. 

The woman's room also supports this mature attitude of the woman as the whole of her room is white, calm and natural. This whole white room could also suggest innocence. 
As the boys leave the taxi, they get into a fight which shows this immature side to men and stereotypically makes the other women look more mature.

When the men arrive at the woman's house, the stereotypical idea of how men have more authority and are above women, is juxtaposed as a high camera angle is shown to see how the woman is standing over the man and automatically making her have more power than the man, which is not seen very much. 

When the woman enters the room to meet the men, slow music is played to show her mature, sophisticated personality. The woman is also not wearing any clothes and both men seem to be uncomfortable with this as they seem shocked and don't know where to look. The fact that the woman is wearing no clothes could show that the woman is proud of the way she looks but also enjoys making men feel uncomfortable around her and overall having control over them. Again this is juxtaposed as stereotypically men normally have control over all women yet in this extract it seems to be the other way around.


Shot reverse shot is seen in this scene as the men and the women have a conversation. Eye line match is used form the women's side as she looks directly into both men's eyes, again another way of showing you have power but the men don't always look back into the woman's eyes, again showing this uncomfortable atmosphere these men have and how at this moment of time they don't have power and control over this woman.

Gender 

Female

. Feminist Betty Friedan claimed "TV has represented American woman to be stupid, unattractive, insecure little house hold drudge who spends her martyred mindless, boring days dreaming of love.

For years, when men were behind the camera, women were really ditsy. Now you have female leads playing superheroes, or super business women”. 

The stereotypes of women as housewives or presented as sex symbols continued throughout the 1980s and arguably to a lesser extent in the 21st century. 

Men

.  The western, the detective/police thriller, science fiction, and the medical drama featured controlling male characters, having adventures, braving danger, solving problems through reason and/or violence


Facts and Figures

In 1952, 68% of characters in prime time dramas were male; in 1973, 74% of characters in these shows were male

• On prime time cable news programs, more than three-quarters of the hosts are white men and less than a quarter are white women. None of the hosts are people of colour. The typical guest on these shows is white and male; overall, 67 percent of the guests are men and 84 percent are white.
• In children's television, male characters appear at about twice the rate of female characters.
• Animated programs in particular are more likely to portray male characters.
• Females are almost four times as likely to be presented in sexy attire and twice as likely to be shown with a diminutive waist.
• In a study of G-rated films from 1990-2005, only 28 percent of the speaking characters (both live and animated) were female. More than four out of five of the narrators were male. Eighty-five percent of the characters were white.

Walt Disney article

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/11/20/cord-cutters-rejoice-walt-disney-co-is-entering-th.aspx



This is about a new multi-media investment that the disney co-operation are releasing within the UK. This investment will allow all of the Disney films to be streamed whenever and wherever if you purchase the membership. This is a great way of investment and if predictions are correct could be one of the greatest creations Disney have made.

Disney film company / star wars

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/disney-to-keep-making-star-wars-films-until-long-after-youre-dead-a6738796.html

This is an article that interested me, as it is about a world famous film star wars and how Disney film company still aim to keep making new editions of the film, so it remains modern.