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UPPER CLASS

The upper class is the social class composed of those who are wealthy, well-born, or both. They usually wield the greatest political power. In some countries, wealth alone is sufficient to allow entry into the upper class. In others, only people born into certain aristocratic bloodlines are considered members of the upper class. The upper class is generally contained within the wealthiest 1-3 percent of the population. Members of the upper class are often born into it, and are distinguished by immense wealth which is passed from generation to generation in the form of estates. Sometimes members of the upper class are called "the one percent".

 

 

MIDDLE CLASS

The middle class are the most contested of the three categorizations, the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the lower class and upper class. One example of the contestation of this term is that in the United States "middle class" is applied very broadly and includes people who would elsewhere be considered lower class. Perspectives concerning globalization, such as dependency theory, suggest this is due to the shift of low-level labour to developing nations and the Third World.

 

LOWER CLASS

Lower class (occasionally described as working class) are those employed in low-paying wage jobs with very little economic security. The working class is sometimes separated into those who are employed but lacking financial security, and an underclass—those who are long-term unemployed and/or homeless, especially those receiving welfare from the state. Stereotypically, working class people often live in decaying, crime-ridden urban areas with low-quality civil services.

 

A person’s class can affect their education (how they can attend exclusive, private schools), health and nutrition (lower quality health care, poorer people tend to work in more hazardous conditions and have less (if any) health insurance), employment (whereby upper/middle class people have more freedom in their occupation with more authority and finally police and the courts (where people with lower status are more likely to be detained by police and less likely to have a fair trial).

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Medium shot used to show mum eating – poor quality food shows that this is a working class family.

Lots of high angles shots to represent that they are poor and not important to society.

Medium shot used to show family in their small home.

CAMERA WORK

Long shot also used to show painter (working class person) outside small houses

First shot in opening is an establishing shot of Road, which shows a working class environment.

Point of view shot used at the being of young girl to show the environment and background she comes from.

EDITING

Montage of dad working building site- occupation shows working class.

Montage was fast paste to show the audience quick other view of the mans jobs so that the audience could establish his social class

EDITING

Scene the beginning uses zooming effect from outside of the house into the house. This shows the typical indoor and outdoor environment of a working class area

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SOCIAL CLASS/STATUS DEFINITION

Social class (or simply "class") is a set of concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered around models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories.

HOW MISE EN SCENE REPRESENTS SOCIAL CLASS/STATUS

The mise en scene in these shots show people dressed in casual clothing that looks like it has been worn a lot this connotes low class people, also the series of shots suggest that low class people who work mediocre jobs like building never have happy marriages and this leads to cheating.

This shot shows a man dressed in a suit and standing next to an expensive car which suggests that he is wealthy and well off, in a higher class that people.

The mise en scene in this shot shows a pretty low quality house with an outside clothes line and a woman and her children in from which suggests that they live in bad conditions

This picture suggest that low class people live in terraced and council housing which links in with where the factory workers who were poor used to live

A man dressed in a vest top watching football suggest that people who are low class do nothing and are lazy that all they do is sit around watch tv and drink

This shot shows that the daughter has been put on report this suggests that lower class people’s children are badly behaved and bad mannered causing them to get into trouble. It also suggests that they do not take education seriously and are also badly educated meaning they are stupid.

HOW SOUND REPRESENTS SOCIAL CLASSIn this particular clip most of the sound that is heard is Diegetic sound as most of it

can be heard. The only pieces of Non-Diegetic sound are the song in the intro. The piano music when they are having the affair and the sound when the girl gets run over as that would be a sound effect. The sound in intro and when the affair is happening has a quite simple piano part but some beautiful violin sounds, this ties in with the two social classes as the violin part could represent the higher class and the simple piano part could represent the lower class.

Diegetic Sound Non-Deigetic Sound

- Shouting/Talking - Introduction Music

- Background TV noise - Sound effect of girl getting run over

- Background Train Noises - Music when the affair is taking place

- Builders Work Noise

- Airplane Noise

- Car Noise when it brakes

- Accents

SOUND IN TERMS OF ACCENT AND VOCABULARY

The accents that are used in the clip are mainly London accents, but more like an east London accent which is the poorer side of London. This show that the people living there are lower class. Higher class Lononders in the Westend of London would have a posh accent reflecting their wealth and status. The vocabulary used also gives away the social status’s because of how they would be educated, higher class people would more likely be educated better and use a wider variety of words unlike lower class people who would use a smaller variety of words and more slang words and also are prone to swearing a lot more for example in the clip the words ‘Stupid cow’ and ‘bleeding’ are used.