Recently in Miss Brown's media classes we have been discussing how gender is shown in TV, film, and the media overall. As an assignment, we had to get into pairs and pick a TV drama and analyse how the different genders are being presented, and then present our ideas to the class. Me and Aayush chose to do a clip from 'Friends', we thought this clip showed gender clearly and was a good clip to use. The clip is linked below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ne54mgfAcs
The first thing said in the clip is by Chandler and he says 'Those were like the best seats ever'. This fairly obviously suggests they just went to a football game, as men love going to see sports live and very much care about where they sit; a stereotype of men.
Both the men's flat and women's flat display iconography to present each gender. The men's flat has simple colours, and more importantly a Foosball table. Men are often associated with liking football and love to play Foosball, therefore. This is a masculine game and men like to play it, which is why it is in the men's apartment. However in the women's apartment, we instantly see more girly colours such as purple. This connotes to feminine colours and which is why it is used in the girls apartment. This contrasts to the more plain colours in the men's flat, and also portrays how men don't care too much about colours in their home, however women love decorating and colours within their home.
The clip in addition presents how women are great and know how to manipulate men, using something sexual such as kissing each other. When they propose this to Joey and Chandler, they look surprised instantly, and then it cuts to a shot of them walking back into their apartment as in they just watched them kiss and then left.Furthermore, this presents how men love to experience acts of sexual nature and how they go with it, through the use of Chandler and Joey's reactions to the offer. Also it shows how women manipulate men very well using their features and sex.
Lastly the facial expressions of the characters can depict how gender is represented also. The men seem to have more angry, shocked faces whereas the women have calmer, more relaxed facial expressions. This shows how men get angry more and more easier than women, and how women will remain calm and try to calm the man down.
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