socialclass
TRANSCRIPT
Lesson aim: To analyse a clip for how social class is represented
through micro-elements
Define social class in 10 words
SOCIAL CLASS
A group of people within a society that possess the same economic status, often determined by occupation, education, income, manners, etc.
The British Social Class System
The British society has often been considered to be divided into three main groups of classes:
the Upper Class
Often people with inherited wealth. Includes some of the oldest families, with many of them being titled aristocrats.
the Middle Class
The majority of the population of Britain. They include industrialists, professionals, business people and shop owners.
Lower or Working Class
People who are agricultural, mine and factory workers.
In pairs, discuss what a stereotypical person in your class would be like:How would they look?How would they sound?What would they wear?
How is social class represented through editing?
1.Identify all the different editing techniques you can first2.Then link the ones you can to superior/inferior
USE PEA
Does it subvert or conform expectations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-6wKfUH2U
Editing techniques• Choose at least 4 and define:
• A: Juxtaposition• B: Match on Action• B: Cross cutting (parallel editing)• B: Eyeline match• C: Pace
C: TakeB: 180 degree ruleC: Continuity editingB: Montage editingB: Jump cutC: Transition
Ext: How would you represent upper class through editing?
How can SOUND represent Social Class?
DIEGETIC DIALOGUE
• Plays a huge role in representing someone’s character
• What can someone’s voice tell us about them?
Shameless
• How does the dialogue represent their social class?
• Does it subvert or conform expectations?
• Ext: What other sounds represent class?
P.E.A. Structure
• The diegetic dialogue is used to represent social class.
• The older female character swears repeatedly when she is angry showing her lack of expression.
• This conforms to a typical representation of working class people who are less educated.
POINT
EVIDENCE
ANALYSIS
Mid lesson Plenary
• Choose one of the classes: Upper, Middle, Lower
• Write 50 words on how they would be typically represented through all 4 micro elements
Discuss the ways in which the following extract represents social
class using the following:
• Mise en scene• Camera• Sound• Editing• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0zNX9voS4X4View the clip 4 times, make notes, write for 45 minutes.
Camera work
• 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 pace to show the audience
quickly the other view of the man’s job 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
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 class• In 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-Diegetic Sound- Shouting/Talking/Swearing - 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
Lesson 2
• Starter:• Write a PEARL on 3 aspects from yesterday’s
clip from The Street• P oint• E vidence• A nalysis• R esponse• L ink
Now swap your answers
• Peer assessment:
• Have they used the PEARL structure?• Have they answered the question?• Have they used appropriate media terminology?
WWW Give them a mark out of 10, if 10 is an accurate, well written answer including many media terms using a PEARL for each point
EBI -Add a target for improvement e.g. – follow the PEE structure for EVERY point