Storyboard

Shot list

1. Person A walks up to a door
2. Shot of hand pushing door
3. Shot of person A walking through the door
4. Shot of person B sitting down
5. Shot of person A asking person B if they're ok
6. Reverse shot (CU) of person B replying
7. Shot of person B standing up
8. Shot of person B asking person A a question
9. Shot of person A's reaction and answer
10. Person B sighs and walks out the fire exit
11. Person A follows after person B out the fire exit
12. Shot of person A and person B facing each other

Location- Spanish department

Actors- Georgie, Shawnean

Age representaion

Mis en scene:

• Shows each person getting ready, pointing out the differences in each age category
• Everyone is at a funeral and an old man complains about missing the football, showing that he thinks he has better things to do with his priorities than be at his wife's funeral.
• Everybody is sitting at the table, separated from each other, with the grumpy snooty old women at one end, the husband in the middle and the younger characters at the opposite end, indicating an obvious divide in age and attitudes
• The old women make everyone say grace, which is usually quite religious and traditional to say grace before every meal, so this would mean because they are older, they were taught how to do things differently when they were younger.

Ethnicity

Hotel Babylon

Mise en scene

• Black guy being professional and formal towards customers
• Attitude changes when he bumps into a friend
• Speech becomes slightly less formal
• Italian man stereotypically a chef
• Maids are usually foreign 

Disability

Coming down the hill:

• Difference in presentation of rooms
• Plain dark colours- David (older)
• Colourful- Ben (younger)
• Sleeping- Vulnerable
• Non-digetic sounds/music
• Questions life- shows David's intelligence
• Physical difference between Ben and David
• Ben is central, showing he is central to the family/ needs most support
• The mum is comforting Ben more, calm voice. Emphasising divide
• The dad addresses David, giving him the most responsibility
• Ben usually stands behind David (for protection) shows David's not interested/doesn't care for him
• Ben seems a nuisance- putting things in David's face, crossing a boundary line
• David can doodle and still retain information, Ben needs help just to go to the toilet
• Ben is vulnerable, stands hunched
• Ben clutching onto the bus rail, shows vulnerability and fear 

Younger people-age representation

moral panic- created by the media (hooded people are muggers/bad people)

Representation of age

How does media represent the elderly?

• Senile
• Grumpy
• Burden
• Wisdom
• Kind
• Caring
• Experienced
• Lonely

Newman  (2006) notes that upper class and middle class elderly people are often portrayed in television and film dramas as occupying high-status roles as world leaders, judges, politicians, experts and business executives.

Gender representation

In the start of the clip we see Martha’s mum and sister dressed in maid uniforms, this shows us as the audience that females are typically meant to be the ones who clean up after everybody. The fact that the outfits are black shows that they are less important, therefore don’t need to stand out. Martha is also dressed in black, showing she is part of the representation that females are less dominant than males. Black shows that the women are made to be formal and presentable at all times. Having black clothing would usually mean that the person has power, but in this instance it is made to be the complete opposite, in fact, instead of standing out, their outfits/uniform almost blends them into the background. The fact that the women are being made to wear uniforms could connote that because they are women, they have to work and they cannot wear their own clothes, again showing that they are powerless compared to the males.

The master’s wife is dressed in a silk red dress, this shows that she is respected as she has not been made to wear any uniform and gets to wear a vibrant colour. Silk is a quite elegant and expensive material so her wearing this shows that she could be quite seductive and is an important woman. Though she seems to be quite powerful, she does not speak, this connotes that she is still not as powerful or equal to the males, which was how it was a while back, women did not speak unless they were spoken to because they had no power and they knew their place.

Martha and her sister have their hair tied up and out of their face. Tying up their hair could reduce feminism as there is not much you can do with it while it is tied up. Having hair tied all back again shows formality, meaning they cannot look messy or like a slob because women of work are supposed to look smart and presentable. Tying up of the hair could connote that the women are made to be quite closed off, like they’re not allowed to express themselves so they wrap it all up, just like their hair.

The master straight away is shown to be more powerful as he is higher up than everyone else and gives the orders, so straight away we know that he is the most dominant out of everyone. The master wears a suit so he is represented as a strong, powerful character.

The doctor seems like a small powerless character, even more so than the women. This is shown because he is put to the side, out of the way, in a cage, nobody in a cage is powerful.

As Martha walks in, she is shoved forward, showing she is treated as a lower status as she is a woman. Her facial expression shows she is quite intimidated by the whole situation and that she is worried about the safety of her friends and family. Not only does she just look at everybody, she maintains eye contact with them, all with expressions of fear or worry, but the eye contact could mean that she is discreetly reassuring everyone that everything is going to be okay. The eye contact could suggest that Martha is actually quite a strong character because she is keeping herself together and maintaining eye contact is something someone with confidence would do. When Martha see’s the doctor, her expression changes to a sort of relief and happiness, this reduces the amount of power she gained when getting eye contact with everyone else, making her seem weak as the doctor is her weakness and maybe the Master knew that, which is why he put him so clearly on display.

The Master tells Martha to kneel and she does as she is told, so she becomes a submissive and once again is seen as weak and helpless, while the Master gains more power by Martha doing so.

Martha is told to bow her head, she does so and The Master is giving a speech about what will happen and then Martha does a slight chuckle, throwing out the idea that she could be afraid, while she slowly gains some respect as The Master stops speaking and ask why she is laughing. Martha starts to speak about ‘a gun’ and she is almost mocking him, she even says ‘a gun scattered in four parts across the world, I mean, come on did you really believe that’ so she gains more power by basically telling him that he had been tricked.

The master then sits down, levelling the power between them. Martha tells her story of how she had to travel around telling everyone about The Doctor and she says ‘I love him’ this shows again that the Doctor is her weakness and she is foolish when it comes to love.

As Miranda stands up the power is passed to her and she becomes more superior and in control, The Master then becomes threatened by this so stands up trying to claim back the authority.

After the countdown finishes The Doctor is restored to his original self and is floated up into the air, making him higher than The Master, and taking all power and dominance.

We learn that all in all, The Doctor is most powerful, though we thought it was Martha, she was doing everything because she needed the doctor, so this connotes that women need men to be in control, because stereotypically that is how it has always been and I think I even in the future, men will always be seen as more dominant than women.

How has research effected our planning?

Research has played a big part in planning as it helps identify what everyone is most interested in and what they prefer to see in a movie.

The main types of research that help are the usual googling or just looking things up one the internet, though you would be researching for ages, as there is a wide range and not a limited amount of people. A more reliable and easy way of finding out what people like is actually asking them, either asking them, getting them to write down what they like, or to make it easier for everyone, create a survey, which is something that we did.

Here is a survey that was made by someone else, this helped us during our research as we could see that action/adventure was the most common movie people enjoyed seeing.

Comedy came second, this could help us if we wanted to add something else to our title sequence.

We came up with the idea that all James Bond movies involved action and adventure, this led us to the idea of doing a spy espionage, we would include things that relate or are similar to movies like 007 and mission impossible (those are just the most recognisable).

From looking at different spy espionages, we can see that the good guy or the 'spy' is typically well and/or in a suit. There is usually a female role in which is being saved and a bad guy (though these are not entirely necessary in the title sequence, but knowing what is in a spy espionage can help you understand how to identify the genre of a movie from the title sequence).

Looking at locations, we came to the conclusion of basing our title sequence in London as James Bond, being a spy is stereotypically British.