More on Gender

Representation of Gender in Television

In media we looked at the representation of gender within TV dramas. In the lesson I learnt that gender is how your presented for example males are seen as more powerful in the eye of most media which in reality its just a stereotype given to that sex. For example most males are seen as the stronger character because women are usually represented as the weaker sex. I found this interesting because for my film we could try and challenge those conventions, which may give somthing more original. Obviously we do not have a hole plot to play with but you can show a lot about a subject in two minutes using the various techniques like camera angles. More feminine males also are seen as less powerful, for example in the clip we watched from desperate housewives the man was crouched down by some flowers looking up at the male with the suit.This shows that men are more powerful when they are masculine than feminine.When I was paired with Mariella we tried to find a clip that challenge some of the conventions we had looked at. To see whether it could work or fail.We analysed Mes en scene, Camera angles, Sound and Editing to reach our decision and presented it to the class. Our clip was sherlock and we found that the women had more power than usual however showed all the typical traits for example she had more close ups because she got emotional and her love for sherlock caused her to fail. Overall after looking at this it would cool to have a female lead however it could disappoint an audience who want a male lead.