Sunday, 16 September 2012

Gender Representation through Editing


How the Roles of Different Genders are Represented in the Media via the use of Editing


 We watched the clip a second time and in our groups discussed out ideas on the use of editing in correlation to the portrayal of gender:



 Again, we had ten minutes to write a few paragraphs based on some of the ideas from our mind maps:

"Masculinity and Femininity feature dominantly throughout the clip, and is shown resoundingly through the use of editing. Throughout the clip, juxtaposition is used to highlight the differences of many characters. At the beginning, the denotation is of two characters one male, the other female, both conforming to their gender's stereotypes. The connotations derived of the contrast of placing shots of the two characters together are multi-puposeful; the audience can not only more easily see the superiority of the seemingly reasonable man over the emotional woman through the editors choosing to juxtapose high angle shots looking down on her with low angle shots looking up at him.
 The latter scene of the man and woman in the forest is reminiscent of this, however, as their roles are subverted, so is the effect on the audience via the use of editing. Again, we see who is inferior to those with power, although this time it is the surprising contrast comparison of a strong willful woma, successfully carrying out masculine tasks (also echoed in the purposeful camera shots of action) to a victimised weak man."

My feedback: 
Explanation and Argument- 4/5
Examples- 4/5
Terminology- 4/5

"You understood really well and used lots of terminology, but maybe have a few more examples?"

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