Modern Masculinity research.

Modern Masculinity - Powerpoint presentation

I have created a power-point presentation for which I have included the link above. I spoke about how mascunility is presented in the modern world and what is expected of men in terms of masculinity. All my comments and stills are included in the presentation above.

Representation of Gender - stills & comments.

There is a big contrast in this scene. The stereotype of a woman is challenged in this scene by the woman controlling and operating the huge digger machine. The close up and long shots of her sitting and operating the machine are creating that effect of the woman being in power and controlling the current situation. There are loads of loud sounds of the digger only signifying even more the contrast.
The clip is fast paced and it cuts from one shot to another really quickly, suggesting the dynamics of the scene.

The man is acting brave, getting the animal out of the way of the digger. He is calling it and then running away to take it away from the woman. This represents the stereotype of a man that is meant to be brave, protect other people and risk his own life. When they are running, the music is fast, intense and loud, with the man's yelling and heavily breathing and then running really fast, and the music is getting tense.

This is another, a very good example of a contradiction to a typical gender representation. The man is dressed in a pink shirt, a waistcoat, scarf and a hat. This is stereotypical a very feminine choice of colours and style as typically women are more into 'fashion', than men. However, the man putting the object down carefully symbolises the bravery and fearless approach to the situation as a man should stereotypically show. there is a very good contradiction in the mis-en-scene and the action that is going on in the sequence.

This is a typical representation of gender in a TV drama. The shot is high angle at the girl, from the man's point of view (over the shoulder shot), as the girl is talking and arguing with the man. The man is presented as tall, looking down on the woman as it is usually represented in media and society. Meaning that girls are usually presented as the dominated ones by men in different kinds of situation. The girl is looking straight at the face of the man with a hard look on her face, suggesting she is making a point that is very important to her and she has strong beliefs about it. The woman is presented as the moany, "difficult" person and the man is the one who is poker-faced, with no emotions showing.

Another example of representation of the masculine woman in the sequence fighting off the animal with the huge digger to turn the animals attention away from the guy that is trying to escape it. It is an act of bravery and loyality to her friends, as if she had the personality of a man, in other words, the woman is presented as a masculine girl.

The man is risking his own life, against the wild animal by jumping in front of it and then falling to the ground as the animal is jumping over him. This symbolises the bravery of the man and the representation of typical gender role specification.

In this still, the woman is presented as a vulnerable human being as a stereotypical gender role is represented. This is represented by the woman lieing on the ground with her arms up in the air, and the man pointing the gun at her. This is a nice contradiction to what she was like before this scene as she was being presented as this powerful, strong woman expressing her own views with strong, unbreakable faith in them. Now she is presented as vulnerable person in skirt and a white coat lieing in the dirt/on the ground and the man looking down on her being now in the powerful position.

Primeval - exam assessment research.

I was asked to look at the marking criteria and see what is asked of the candidates, what information examiners seek in the candidates response in order to get the highest marks.

For level 4, candidates should show an excellent understanding of the task, meaning that they should show in their work if they understand what they were asked to do for the task by correctly identifying the topics mentioned in the question. They should also write about the technical aspects used in the extract, so identify and describe the different techniques used in the extract to represent their knowledge and understanding of it. Also, they must link the extract's representations to textual analysis and analyse the extract in terms of the representations. All answers to the first paragraph must be relevant to the set question and they must be clear, showing an excellent understanding of what the candidates were asked to do.

Another paragraph for separate marking is the use of examples in candidates response. For example, if they are writing about how gender is represented in the extract they are looking at, they must provide a relevant example from that extract. There also must be lots of relevant examples of each technical area (techniques used in the extract to present the topic in the question). All examples must be strongly relevant to the extract and the question that has been set.

Another part of the answer being marked separately is the use of relevant and accurate terminology used to discuss the subject of representation in the extract. The terminology must be correct and advanced, using professional terms for techniques used in the extract and ways in which the representation has been used in the extract.