Ethnicity Stereotypes

 Ethnicity stereotypes

Ethnicity is beliefs about the typical characteristics of a certain group of people. This can be nationalities, their class and status or social and cultural beliefs.

Camera angles can show the Ethnicity of someone or something by the use of different angles if they are of a small cultural background then they might be looked down on by the camera but if they are Christian then the camera may see them as the most important thing and have the camera looking up at them.

Sound can be used to show Ethnicity because if there is a scene in a church then there could be some praying or chanting that could be going on in the background which could show the religion that the people in the church belong to.

Mise-en-scene can be used to show Ethnicity because if there is a scene where people are in a house and there are a few religious relics in the home which can show the religion that they belong to. Also flags of nationalities are used to show what countries they are in if the audience do not know where the TV programme is taking place.

Ethnicity links to Gender because there are two types of gender but there are lots of types of Ethnicity but there normally is a lot more negativity aimed at black/Asian people than at women or men.

Ethnicity links to age because if you are a younger person who is Asian in a white British part of the country then you are more likely to be racially abused or picked on.

Ethnicity links to sexuality because if you are a homosexual white person then you will get picked on because you are different but if you are a homosexual black person then, a lot more people will see you as un normal and you will be more likely picked out because of that.

Ethnicity links to class and status because you are less likely to become massively rich and become high class if you are black or Asian. This is because we live in a racist society so chances to become a rich successful business person are not as big if you are black.

Ethnicity links to physical ability/disability because if you are a disabled person then you are already at a disadvantage but if you are disabled and black then there is less chance of you getting anywhere because you can’t work and people might not trust you because of your skin colour.

Ethnicity links to regional identity because if you live in a certain place then you are more likely to be either black or white. This means that if you are from a certain part of say, London there is a few parts which are quite rough and a lot of black people live in these parts. 

Class and status in TV drama

Class and status includes where someone lives, what sort of job they have with the amount of income going into their home.

Camera angles are used to show class and status because if someone in a TV show has a really nice house then they are obviously rather wealthy then the angle will be a full picture of the house that they have. This will show the audience whether they are a high class and status or a low class family. But it may not just be the outside of the house, when the camera gets inside then the camera man pans around the whole house this will show the conditions of the house and so show the audience the main condition of the house.

Editing can be used to show the class and status because if there is a poor person on the TV show then cutting from a poor person to a higher class person can show just how much the lower class person is struggled in their life.

Sound is used to show class and status because if there is a party at a posh house then the low noise of mingling is very obvious that it is a high class party and not a low class party, this is because at low class parties there is normally lots of alcohol and really loud music. This shows the different types of class’ parties, which can give an indication about what sort of people they are.

Mise-en-scene is used to show class because the set that they are on will be of the house, you can tell what the kind of people will be like because of the home they live in. If the set is really nice then the people that live in that house will be high class. Props on the set can tell the class of the people in the house, if there are lots of nice things with many nice ornaments then they will be a high class person.

Class and status links to gender because most high class people are males who have really good jobs, normally women who are high class are either born into it or marry into it. This used to be more the case around 50-100 years ago when noble men used to marry their daughters off to rich males in order to gain money.

Class and status links to age because there may be less young high class people than older high class people, this is because older people have more time to gain a large amount of money and they have less large parties and more chances to become higher class, where as younger people are normally focused on just getting a good social base than gaining enough money to become a higher class person.

Class and status links to Ethnicity because people who are from different countries originally are less likely to have really good jobs because they come to this country to get better jobs, these jobs are not likely to give the high class status. White British people are more likely to be rich high class people in England, whereas Muslims are less likely to become high class people.

Class and Status links to sexuality because homosexual people are very picked on more when they are younger but when they are older people are more responsible and more respectful about peoples decisions, so this would not stop homosexual people from becoming high class people.

Class and status links to physical disability because disabled people are probably less likely to become high class people. This is because they are at a disadvantage as they cannot work. They might not have enough money to be thought of as ‘high class.’ People who are not disabled are probably more likely to become high class because they can actually work to gain more money.

Class and status links to regional identity because if you live in a certain part of a city then you are more likely to be a higher class, like if you live in Kensington then you are more likely to be higher class than if you live in hackney because you live in a nicer area and people would respect your property more. 

 Gender in TV drama

Female gender stereotypes begin from when the baby is given its sex. If it is a girl then the baby will be given pink items of clothing with decorations of flowers and butterflies, where as if the baby was a boy then the baby will be given hats that are blue which have footballs on them. We then presume that the little girls will be very girly and have lots of dresses and want to play with dolls this is opposite to boys who would want shorts and t-shirts and want to play football or rugby.

Stereotypes of women are things like:

·         Women are nurses not doctors

·         Women are not as strong as men

·         Women don’t play sports

·         Women love to sing and dance

·         Women do not play video games

These stereotypes are now very less thought about but now women are very equal to men as they can do everything that men could do, but in the past they have not been given the opportunity to do these things.

Stereotypes of men are things like:

·         All men enjoy working on cars

·         Men are doctors not nurses

·         Men play sports

·         Men play video games

·         Men do not cook, sew or do crafts

Lots of these things are now not applied to just men but a few years ago this was very true. Men are now more likely to cook or sew than they were 50 years ago because people would have thought that this was unmanly and stupid for men to do when they could be working on cars or doing manual labour work.

Camera angles are used in TV dramas to make women look weak, there are maybe some angles looking down on women from a man’s perspective which makes the male look a lot better than the women is and make her look frail and weak. Close ups can be used to show shock on the faces of women if they are in a certain situation this could make them seem not as good as the male characters. This can also make the male stereotypes look stronger because it may have the male looking confidently down at another male or a unfortunate female or child.

Editing can be used to make women look like they are weak because there may be a scene when a main male character is looking around for his women assistant and it pans across towards her and he sees her doing something she shouldn’t be doing so he punishes her and this makes her look weak to the audience.  

Sound can make women look weak because there can be moments when women are in troubled situations. Women are known to scream a lot so they are used to scream which makes the audience feel like the women is in trouble and needs help, this makes her seem weak and unable to fend for herself. This can be used for male stereotypes because when a male character steps out into the scene then there could be music playing which makes the male character seem like the main piece of the scene.  

Mise-en-scene is used for women stereotypes because when women are in fear or are at risk of something happening the lights normally go dim or the scene is normally a night time scene. This is very useful for horror scenes because a lot of people are scared of the dark. It can be used also for the male stereotype if a male who has done something special or courageous there will be a lot of light on the specific character because it shows the audience who has done something special.  

Gender links to age because if there is an old woman who is fragile then they will look weaker than an old male, also the old women will need more help to look after her than the old man would. This means that there is more chance for the women to be picked on than the man so this is following in the order of the gender stereotype.

Gender links to Ethnicity because women who are of an Indian Ethnicity are more likely to be singled out and racial abused than a white British female. This is an example of the racist society that we live in and this is why the Indian population live together in most parts of cities and towns because they do not like to be singled out and racially picked on.

Gender links to sexuality because a homosexual women or homosexual man is normally very likely to be singled out because of his sexuality, this is linking to gender because women are singled out to be weaker and so are homosexual men because they are described as being more women than they are men.

Gender links to class and status because a high class rich women who is very powerful like the queen is not going to be told she can’t do something just because she is a women. But then there is a young single mother who has very little money who is told she can’t do something that the queen could very easily do because she is a woman. Richer people normally get better things than poorer people do, because they have the resources to do so.

Gender links to physical disability because people who have a disability are already very unlucky. But then to be a disabled woman could be seen to be more helpful because women are seen as weaker and so people want to help a disabled women more than a disabled man. This is not because they feel less sorry for the disabled man but because men are thought as more powerful and safer than women are.

Gender links to regional identity because if you are part of a region and community then people in that community will know who you are; this means that you are mostly friends and no-one is weak. There could be some people who are part of a community who feel that they should work together as a community in order for everyone to function properly, like on the TV series Emmerdale or Coronation street, where everyone knows and looks out for each other.    

Disabilty representation Inbetweeners

This clip is funny because one of the characters believes that girls will enjoy the throwing of the Frisbee but the plan goes disastrously wrong because instead of the Frisbee going towards the girl he threw it at, the Frisbee goes and hits a disabled girl. People will find this funny if they have watched the programme before because they know that Will, the character who threw the Frisbee has no luck and most of his ideas and plans do not go to plan.

The disabled girl is being represented as someone who can’t really look after themselves. They have a carer there for them, someone to always look after them. She is being represented as quite innocent, someone who would struggle if they didn’t have their carer there looking after them at all times of the day. She is being represented in a humour way, the way that she is unfortunate to be on the receiving end of Will’s throw. This shows her to be vulnerable and fragile. 

We laugh at this comedy sketch not because there is a disabled girl getting hit in the face with a Frisbee, but because of the luck that the character that threw the Frisbee actually has. He was really unlucky to have that happen to him and it would have been hard for him to hit the disabled person if he was actually aiming at her. We do not laugh at the disabled person because we know that would be unkind, but we are actually laughing because it is the way that Will’s plans always back fire on him and the group.

She is not actually the ‘butt’ of the joke but one of the main characters is supposed to be the butt of the joke. This is because they are represented as ‘inbetweeners’ because they do not fit into any kind of friendship group but are just friends with each other because there is no one else to be friends with. They have to look after each other because no one else will. The way that Neil and Jay run off before it actually hits the girl maybe suggests that they believe they are too cool for that group and want to be more socially accepted.

 

I think that disabled people will not mind this being on TV because it represents the struggles that they have to go through and the teenagers that are watching this are going to be more likely to look out for older or disabled people because they do not want to be embarrassed like Will and Simon were.

I believe that some people I society are quite cultivated to look after and pity the disabled. This is because most people have feelings and feel sorry for the disabled people, they feel fortunate to not be in their situations because they know that the disabled people didn’t want that to happen to them and they didn’t choose being disabled. Some people do not feel as sorry for the disabled people, for example people that maybe have disabled person in their close family are more likely to feel sorry for a disabled person than maybe someone who doesn’t have a disabled person in their family, so they don’t understand what it is like to live with something like that.

Why Did ‘Dredd’ flop at the box office?

The film ‘Dredd’ is about a futuristic police officer working for the police department in the future, the ‘judges’ Dredd is one of the best judges and always works to the letter of the law. The film is written and produced by Alex Garland and stars Karl Urban as Dredd. The film co stars Olivia Thirlby as the rookie judge Anderson. She is training to be a judge. The main aim that the two judges have is to get to the top of the tower block at level 200 and stop the evil drug dealer ‘Ma-Ma’ who is played by Lena Headey.

Dredd comes from a British comic book character Judge Dredd. This character never takes off his helmet and always pulls the same facial expression, one of disgust and hatred. The film is a sci-fi action film. It got some good reviews from film critics about the visual effects, casting and action. Critics were mainly critical on the amount of excessive violence that happens in the film.

The British company, DNA films produced the film. It is a British film and British comic. In may 2010 reliance big pictures agreed with the producers to co-finance the 3-D project and so giving a £45 million budget for the film to be made. The film was made in South Africa and was directed by Pete Travis.

One reason why Dredd might have flopped at the box office was because of the other films that were coming out at the same time. 2012 was a bad time for any super hero films to come out because of the release of the massive hit The Avengers Assemble. This would have been bad because the Avengers film had a massive budget for it, also all of the characters are well known like the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and Captain America. This film had a $220 million budget this is compared to the £45 million budget that Dredd had. This difference in money can make or break to make a quality film. Dredd only took £41 billion at the box office where as the Avengers film took $1.5 billion.

Comparing the actors of the two films could give another indication of why Dredd might have flopped at the box office. The film Dredd lacked any massive superstars. Karl Urban is a fantastic actor but is not really known massively worldwide. Compare him to the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson and you are already attracting four really we known actors fan bases. Also the comics are already really well known, probably better known than any of the Judge Dredd films.

Films that are not comic books but that have been released the same year could also affect the amount of money that Dredd takes at the box office, these films include; The Hobbit and unexpected journey, Twilight sage breaking dawn part 2, the hunger games, The dark night rises and 21 Jump street. All these films are big blockbuster films that have huge budget. Also most of these films are in a series so people already know them from other films. Most of these huge films have got big stars in them and already have a large fan base that they are appealing to.

Another reason that Dredd may have flopped at the box office is because the film had an 18 certificate. This is a reason because a large amount of people that wants to go and see comic book films and that have read comic books are often younger than 18 so they wouldn’t have been able to watch it at the cinema. This could not have made any affect because when it was a comic people that would have read It would have been around 12/13 but now they will be about 30/40 so they would have been able to go and watch it at the cinema. This is compared to the marvel films which are normally all around 12A. This would mean more children and teenagers actually going to the avengers at the cinema which would in turn mean more money in the box office.

Dredd is supposed to be a British comic book character but the film doesn’t really make it seem like he is a British character. The film is too ‘Americanised’ with lots of influence in the film from American action films. A good thing about the film is that Dredd never actually takes his helmet off, he never does in the comic books but in the Stallone version of the film he does so it kind of ruins the whole thing. Because he doesn’t show his face this is good because it should be like in the comic books in the actual film.    

Marketing for a film costs a lot of money to actually get the film quite well known by the time the film actually comes out at the screens. One reason why Dredd might have flopped at the box office is because it didn’t have that much money left after making the money to actually spend on the marketing.

Karl urban announced to the world that he was going to be Dredd at Comic Con back in 2010. This was 2 years before the film so it shows that these kinds of films take a long time to make. This would be good to attract people to the film because there are a lot of people that read comic books at Comic con so these people might see Urban say that and start reading the comics, if they liked the comics then they would then be more likely to go and see the film.

During production there was certain special affects that were used in the film, in particular the ‘slo-mo’ this reaction happened when any of the characters took the slo mo drug which slowed down time. 3-D cameras were used during the filming of Dredd. These films made it awkward because then the cinemas had to be able to show it in 3-D if they actually want to show the film. Smaller cinemas would not have been able to show this film because they do not have the right screens and technology. You could not see the film in 2-D even if you wanted to. The slo-mo affects had actually come from a different film, never let me go. They took the idea and used it as the perfect affect for when anyone took the drug.

The film topped the UK box office on its opening weekend, it was the first 18 film to actually do this since SAW 3D in 2010. This isn’t really an indication of why it flopped but it may be a point that the certificate may have an effect on the outcome of the movies profits it was obviously popular on its first weekend because the SAW films are very well known. Because the film was being only shown in 3-D the cinemas thought this was a reason for the numbers going down and down every day, lots of cinemas asked for copies of the film in 2-D but the film’s distributor, Lionsgate, denied them the copies.

In conclusion i think that Dredd flopped because it was not popular enough with people of older ages, also the younger people couldn’t go and see the film at the cinema so it was affected on two age fronts. It is not as much of a family film as the Avengers with more violence and less of a story line. Because it wasn’t very popular with lots of people the film makes know that they now have a specific audience in which to make the sequel for. They have said there is going to be a sequel so this is a positive. They believe that they can create a new film which might gain a profit but most of all people actually want another film.  

Representation of Gender- wire in the blood

Representation of Gender. This clip is from a tv show called wire in the blood. It shows two police detectives that are trying to solve a murder or homicide of a teenage girl. The clip shows a few camera shots like the panning shot when the two of them are walking out of the house; this is showing that they are in a conversation. They are arguing about the way that the women detective treated the people inside the house that are the victims parents.

The male is saying that the female detective is not doing her job properly, this could be a representation of gender because women are often criticised and seen to be inferior to working than men. This is kind of shown because the women wants the mans help but he believes that she Is doing her job wrong so he doesn’t attempt to help her. She begs him to help her, this is quite stereotypical because women are often seen to be inferior to women and so this is showing that the women needs the mans help in order to do the job. In the end he decides to help her and asks her for the files about the murder. It then flicks to a scene where the male is analysing the files that she has given to him. It shows him thinking about them and he seemed to be able to figure out something about the murder.

This could be a representation of gender because the male is shown to be better at figuring out what happened than the women did.

The next scene was the gang in the house, these are men who seem to be homeless but all live in one run down house. These men are drinking and smoking and stereotyping some men to be lazy and worthless to anyone. One of the men is a obvious leader of a group and has obvious power and he is very violent to one of the men that tries to talk to him, this is by putting his head through a wall. This is showing that men are used to being controlled by a boss or leader and stereotyping that some men are stronger than others. There is also a good editing bit in this scene because the strong and fearless leader asks one of the men where the normal boss man is, and he says he has been missing. There is a obvious flashback to a man being tied up in rope and he has been gagged suggesting that the people know where he is but do not want to say where he is. This scene is showing large amount of gang violence and that there is mostly males in gangs.

In the last scene there is the male detective who has to look after the female detectives son. The Female detective is a single mother who stereotypes to be unable to look after their children when they are at their jobs or out. This is evident because the female detective had an argument with her old nanny and she left now she has no one to look after her son so she had to get a work mate to do it for her. The child blames himself for the nanny leaving because he called her ‘mummy’ this is quite unnatural for a child of his age to take responsibility for his own actions so it could be saying that he is a clever child. The child also worries about his mother although not wanting to sound to worried because he doesn’t want to sound weak because men don’t normally want to sound weak in front of other males. He worries that she doesn’t come home early but when she does she is always angry and depressed.