Studying a media clip

Over the shoulder shot- of the woman cooking but not the one in the underwear, makes it her POV
close up
mid close up

blonde woman- objectified, no clothes, seems quite dumb, 'loose', for the male gaze purpose
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he blonde woman is objectified as the typical 'male gaze'. She is represented as this by wearing sexy lingerie, wearing a hot pink silk dressing gown. As an audience we are being asked to look at the woman with the male gaze (Laura Mulvey) as she is blonde, has a slim and 'sexy' figure. Colours also add impact as hot pink is very girly. Location is in the kitchen in a house, very organised, wouldn't typically be a half naked women in there.
Non digetic music being played over the top, quite mischeavous music, tinkering along, almost flirtatious. The music climaxed in the middle and quite humourous: suggests she isn't taking herself too seriously. Sexual references within her dialogue, 'I just can't help being dirty'.  Digetic sound of them speaking and the tea pouring.
Close up, reaction shots to shows the facial expressions in more detail, so the audience fully understands the character. Pan to add to the realism. Over the shoulder shot, viewing things from the other womans perspective.
Shot reverse shot, audience feels the conversation.

Other woman being portrayed very stereotypically again, being in the kitchen, cooking, housewife. Clothing is quite old fashioned, covers all of her, smart, feminine. Wearing pearls, signify her being quite rich, associated with the upper class, we know just from her clothing she is a rich woman. Wearing pink, floral patterns. Working to make you know about her, age, status, beliefs. Looks very harmless. Situtation she is in has even more of an impact, because she is being faced with this blonde, sexy woman in her underwear. Everything abouyt her looks pefect, like she has to be that. She's even wearing an apron, very more traditional housewife. Long take of her close-up, identify with her emotions that she's quite uncomfortable and awkward in the situation. Long reaction take, understand her reaction, shocked. Really understanding the awkwardness that she is feeling, the over the head shot goes with the longness of the reaction when talking about maple syrup. Older women put in the position of the man, she has to objectify the blonde. Don't fit neatly into the sterotypes,  the blonde also is portrayed as masculine as she is sitting down to eat the breakfast the woman has cooked for her, which is usually what a man would do.

Epiphany of very different, juxtapositioned stereotypes of women, one a 'blonde, sexy' woman and the other being a typical 'housewife, cooking in the kitchen'

location- at someones house, makes it more relatable to everyone,

sound, music playing in the background, quite simple music, quite mischeavous music

quite light, warm colours,




Upper class woman and lower class woman in the first scene, lower class is wearing her hair up quite messily and wearing very bright colours. Connotates that she's a lot happier than the upper class woman as she is wearing all grey, which suggests the phrase of 'money isn't everything'.


Other woman, wearing grey suit, suggests shes quite dull even though upper class. Close up of her ring, before her, emphasis's it, shows she is married and the ring is very important and expensive as it is shown before the woman, which could show that possessions are more important to her.


Sexual noises when she tries on the dress and has it on, emphasis the phrase 'womens greatest pleasure is shopping'. Camera angles very messy up and down and around, when she's trying to find the ring, shows chaos and shows her emotions that she's very stressed.


Relaxed leisurely music at first, but then very loud saxophones playing very quickly when she has lost the ring which again makes the scene more tense.


Blonde man looks straight in the camera, suggests that he is looking right at us, making us feel involved. Also that we're looking at it from another characters eyes, or we are the other character.

Over the shoulder shot of the woman, makes us feel as if we're overlooking the scene from another characters point of view.

Speaking and camera angles (fastly movbing around) and movement of the woman is all very fast when ring is lost, makes the viewer feel somewhat disorentated and gets tension higher.

Low angle shot of the blonde man browsing clothes when the brunette man is on the floor looking for the ring, makes viewer feel inferior or POV shot from brunette man.

Woman walks in after man, man gets hit own pan up and down his body, woman doesn't, represents that mens authority over women in society.

Two parallel narratives at the same time.

Woman is using her sexuality to get her prize, the men are the one that are doing the hard work, using their brains, she's using her body to do this.

'Late for her hair appointment'- she's not employed, following stereotypes of what a woman is.

'Husband will kill me'- her husband has the power, seeing as she isn't employed and seems to be very rich, makes her seem like she's in it for the money, makes women seem shallow.