How is gender represented in this scene of Doctor Who




Throughout this scene, men are represented to be very powerful. One example of this is at the start when the master is stood at the top of the stairs and the camera is tilted to be looking up at him. This gives the effect that he is above us and more dominant than us. Another example of men having power is when the doctor begins to regenerate. A bright white light circles him showing that he is powerful as he is also levitating. Another example is when the master demands Martha to kneel. This shows that he has power over her and can order her to do what he wants. Another piece of evidence of men having power is when the Doctor starts to overthrow the Master. The camera is tilted to be looking up at him showing that the doctor is looking down at the master showing power and dominance.




Throughout this scene women are seen to be powerless. One example of this is that two women are being held captive by two male guards. They also do not speak throughout the majority of the scene. This shows that they were not able to fight back or say anything. As well as this there is a blonde women in a red silk dress. She is used as a sex object in this scene. Also she never speaks in the scene showing how she wasn't confident and dominant enough to speak out.


However later on in the scene Martha starts to gain power and bravery. One example of this is when Martha starts to stand up and shout at the Master. This shows that she now has taken the power from the master because she has outsmarted him.

Parent consoling child over GCSE result video

This is my first AS Media Studies video. It is a scene from a soap opera about a teenager who gets some bad GCSE results and is consoled by his parent at home.

Se7en Sloth scene, Mise en Scene analysis

In this scene from David Fincher's Se7en, the police enter a dark and duty house and are searching through the rooms. They create suspense by using different camera movements. For example when the police team enter one of the rooms they stop and the camera zooms out and leaves you in suspense as to what they have stopped and looking at. As well as this at the start of the scene they use the camera to show how the policeman maybe feeling, this is called interplated. The camera is shaking to show how the policemen might well be feeling a bit jittery and shaky. This creates a scary tension and intriguing feel to this scene and gives us an idea that the rest of the film is a quite dark and scary film.

As well as this, they are trying to use props to create a high level of verisimilitude. For example they use thousands of air fresheners to show how the murder tried to conceal the smell of the decomposing body. As well as this the costumes that the policemen are wearing seem to be very similar to the real ones worn. This makes it realistic as they have not made the costumes bright and vibrant and nothing like the real thing. This gives us the idea that the film is made to have a high verisimilitude feel to it.

Also the scene has been created to be very dark, old and scary. They have done this by making it very dark and dusty in the air. Another example is the old furniture in the building. Old broken blinds, a metal bed and an old lamp by the bed. This gives a very old and creepy feel to the building. 

First Lesson

Today was my first lesson of AS Media Studies. We started off by learning about Semiology, the study of signs. We learnt all about the different kind of signs that we see. Symbolic, iconic and indexical were the three types that we learnt about. How signs can be polysemic which means to have more than one meaning and the connotation or meaning of the sign. Overall the lesson was a good start to Media Studies.