Ashes to Ashes exam question

Analyse the clip from Ashes to Ashes explaining how miss en scene, camerawork, editing and sound have constructed the representation of gender.

I can see that this clip is showing how woman were represented/treated in the workplace and how they where not respected at all.
I noticed that most of the male characters seem to be very stubborn. I also noticed that the male characters seem to be slightly competitive when working together (they always try to do a better job than each other).
 The male character always seem to be verbally abusing the female characters. The insulting words that the male's use, clearly express their thoughts towards women in the workplace and outside of the workplace.

A key point in the clip is that the women are shown as mentally strong, which is seen when they deal with
all of the insults and sexism that most of the male characters direct towards them.
The women do seem to overcome this bullying by using their more sophisticated vocabulary to out smart
male characters.
The camera also shows emotions of different characters, for example, each time a female was insulted, the camera would zoom up to their face to show their emotion. 

It is clear that the male characters are more dominant due to visual hierarchy. This dominance tells the viewer
that the male is of more importance.
This is different for the females, because they get less screen time than males. This shows that the male characters are shown as important because they get more screen time.


Finally, the sound is also used to show dominance. This is shown when the male characters speak loud, when the women speak quieter. The mens loud voices maybe imply that they know their dominance and feel like shouting it out.

Evaluation question 6

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

When recording our Thriller, we used a high quality (1080p) camera.
This was useful because it meant that we could film in any weather or environment and still get amazing quality without much trouble.
To keep the camera steady we used a tripod. This as useful because it enabled us to avoid any shaking when filming.
This also enabled us to carry out certain shots and camera positions without having to hold the camera steady.
My only problem with this was the amount of times the camera wouldn't let us watch our own footage.

The software that we used to edit our clips together is called Final Cut. It enabled us to get the footage from the camera, cut it, position it and tweak with it until it fits in with the rest of the footage.

I personally didn't like using Final Cut because I found that it would often freeze and crash.

This was frustrating because it meant that work was always getting lost.

Unfortunately, this problem was not sorted, but we were able to get our footage onto the computer eventually.

Any finished work was uploaded to our blogs on Blogger. This proved to be useful because it meant that work was not getting lost and/or damaged. Also, using Blogger proved to be a good way to check that each group member is up to date.

Evaluation question 4+5

How did you attract and address your audience? 

We attracted our chosen audience by using features that they informed us about in the questionaire  they filled in. This included the use of enigma. 

We tried not to use each feature too many times, so we could keep it fresh.

We were influenced by many thrillers, including 'The Bourne Legacy' and 'Marnie'. This meant that we were sure to attract the perfect audience because, by studying these films, we were able to imitate features used.

As well as using features from these films, we also attempted to edit similar effects into our opening e.g. Split screen, fade, close up etc.

Evaluation question 3