What is regional identity?
Regional identity is identifying a person and a persons identity which is rooted not only in the setting of the film but also in speech, costumes etc and in the region they live in.
How can you identify regional identity?
–Setting
–Accents
–Dialogue
–Props
–Make up
–Class of characters
–Costumes
Examples
Shameleass – Manchester
- Silly – handheld camera – maybe drunk as it highlights his un-steadiness – slurred voice
- Alcoholic – close-up on a woman sleeping – mid shot – can see an empty bottle if wine on the floor
- Doesn’t open the door straight away – suspicious – tells someone in the background that they can ‘get the baseball bat if you want’ to make them feel safer – there’s not actually anyone else in the house with her - rough neighbourhood – not safe – need protection – saying it to scare people off
- Light, clarinet used for incidental music – Contrapuntal -show it’s not that rough – lightens up the setting
- Over the shoulder shot – can see his facial expressions – looks drunk – why she asks if it’s a ‘wind-up’
- Establishing shot - Small houses close together – housing/ council estate – doesn’t look nice – poor
- Boys looking out the window – noisy
- Set at night – dark
- Mise-en scene – hooped earings and gold jewellery – chav – bad
- Diagetic sound of high heels – emphasised by Foley – she’s a woman in a dark allyway – not safe
- Start off following a woman – catches man looking at her – what you lookin’ at?’ – vicious
P.E.E Sentence
From this extract of Shameless, the viewer can see that the people of Manchester are represented as alcoholics or that they like to drink through the use of camera angles as when we first see the man at the beginning, a hand held camera shot is used, which suggests that he might be drunk as using a hand held camera is unsteady and has jerky movements, which the viewer can relate to when they themselves are drunk, creating verimilitude and thus highlighting his unsteady drunken walking. This is then highlighted further through mise-en-scene when we later cut to the woman where through a mid shot we can see an empty wine bottle and glass by her sofa in arms length, suggesting that they find it easy to finish off an entire bottle of wine and the fact that it was at arm’s length, suggests that it’s close by and easy to get to and so they must do it all the time.
Shameless – Manchester
Brookside – Liverpool
- Violent – dialogue – raised voices
o The way everyone is standing – big group of boys – mum and child behind a man in the middle – trying to prevent that fight
o Boy head butts one of the other boys practically straight away and them everyone joins in
o Woman joins in, but gets thrown off
o Young boy hit’s the old man – ‘serves you right’ – didn’t see hitting him as his problem – when he calls the old man ‘grandad’ the older man hits him – audience surprised – old people seen as quiet and scared of young generation
§ When younger boy sees that he’s hurt he runs at the granddad – no morals – would hit an old man
§ Shot reverse shot – show reactions
§ Over the shoulder – see other persons reaction
o Cuts to three older people
§ Even they are quite violent/ hostile – old lady rips up paper and throws it over the man and woman – say’s you can ‘stick it’ – angry vocab/ phrase
- Mise – en- scene
o Tracksuits – ‘chav’ – hard, tough, scary, don’t want to get on the wrong side of them
o Looks like a nice neighbourhood – semi-detached houses – even ‘middle class’ people are violent there
- Point of view shot using hand held camera – gets close to the action – audience can really see how violent they are – unsteady and quick – highlights the violence and tempo of the clip
- Can only hear diagetic sounds – causes the audience to really focus on the fight
- Set in the day – nice houses, nice street – verisimilitude – shows the audience that in Liverpool people will have a go at you in the niceness of the day, which is meant to be safe – thus makes Liverpool seem very un safe
P.E.E Sentence
People from Liverpool are represented through diegetic sound as violent as the dialogue is colloquial, for example when one of the youths in a tracksuit tells the ‘grandad’ that he should stay out before he ‘really get’s it’, which confirms the stereotypical view that teenagers are violent, but that the ones in Liverpool are especially as he spoke really abusively to an old man and threatened to hit him. However, what really stresses the stereotypical view of people from Liverpool being violent is the fact that the old man actually hit the teenager, which is surprising as we, the audience, see old people as quiet and non-violent, so the fact that the older generation hit the younger generation confirm the stereotypical view that ‘liverpudlians’ or ‘scoucers’ are all violent.
The Only Way Is Essex
- Men and women are tanned – care about their appearance
- Joey Essex doesn’t know what botox is – close up on his face shows his confusion – makes him seem dumb
- Big hair, lots of make-up
o Lipgloss
o Blusher
o Foundation
o Bronzer
§ – but not done well/ to look natural – care about their appearance, but makes them look cheap
- Tight fitting clothes, short – show off their body – Mulvey’s Male Gaze – want men’s attention
- Dilogue – laugh about getting Silvester Stilones’s name wrong – makes them seem immiture
o Talk about all the work they’ve had done (see earlier notes) they’ve all had a lot done
o Sit gossiping about one of their group being on a date with Joey Essex – stereotypical view
o One sequels in pain at the Botox – low pain threshold – not as strong as men
o Talk about the boob job as if it’s a serious operation – makes them look quite dumb
o Colloquial language – ‘well jel’
o Awkward silence when one of the girls doesn’t want to have Botox done – Shot reverse shot – shows both girls reactions – one girl looks shocked – not normal for one of them not to do what the others are doing – like sheep – need guiding – by men?
Full shot – shows the living room – white sofa’s, expensive furniture, nice pillows – pink – associated with girls – how does she have a nice house?
- Mise- en – scene
o Brightly coloured clothes – want to be looked at – eye-catching
o Pink uniform – beautician – typical ‘girl’ job
o Very light inside – girls live ‘colourful’ and ‘bright’ lives
P.E.E. Sentence
The women in Essex are portrayed through mise-en-scene as the stereotypical view of women, where women are seen as objects without brains, as they wear a lot of tight fitting and shot clothes, such as the pink beautician’s uniform, which is used to attract the male gaze (Mulvy). The pink of the uniform is also associated with girls, stressing this stereotypical view. The girls also wear lots of make-up, such as bronzer, blusher, lip stick and have big hair, which isn’t done well as it’s not natural, so it shows the women care about their appearance, but that they also look cheap, suggesteing that the women of Essex look cheap and ‘fake’ as they have a lot of make-up on.
Made In Chelsea – London (Posher Area)
Mise-en-scene
- Flashy cars, yachts, nice clothes – they have a lot of money
- Lighting – quite light and bright – they live nice lives
- No –one seems to have a job – stereotypical view – live off of their parents
o Modelling contract – told to ‘cut his hair’ – close up shot shows shocked expression – doesn’t want to do that
Dialogue
- going to Cannes on holiday – close up shot of surprised and excited faces – surprise trip – not planned – shows that they can do what they want, when they want without any consequences
- ‘pick up dry cleaning’ – man surprised at this – ‘no, no’ – not an acceptable or respectable job
- Clip ends with ‘I want you’ – audience can see that from their lifestyle he will get what he wants
Editing
- Quick shots – emphasise that they life busy, bright and exciting lives – adds to the drama and makes it more eye-catching as a trailer – makes you want to see more
- Title/words flash across the screen – also quickly – adds interest to their lives – almost patronises the audience – their lives are so exciting, while yours isn’t, so you must sit and watch theirs
Sound
- Upbeat music – adds to the ‘fun’ vibe
- Digetic and foley sounds – seagull – Caggie’s facial expression to hearing that Spencer dumped Funda the night before – adds humour
o ^ - emphasises that he can do what he likes – doesn’t care about what others think
- Dialogue – quite posh accents – well spoken
Shots
- Low angle – looking up – makes them look superior
- Shot reverse shot – show convo
- Establishing shot – shows where they are
The cast of Made in Chelsea are portrayed as posh and rich through mise-en-scene as in every shot you can see lots of expensive cars, yachts, clothes; houses with balconies and long driveways, which is highlighted by the lighting used in the trailer as everything is so light and the colour is boosted, suggesting that the people who live in Chelsea, London live very extravagant and ‘colourful’ lives themselves. Also, through the settings of the clip, no-one appears to be working, which follows the stereotypical view that they are spoilt rich kids, who rely on their parent’s money to have a good times and don’t work themselves.
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