Tuesday 17 December 2013

Critical Investigation- Textual Analysis Task 1

Textual analyses of chosen scenes/extracts of Geordie shore 
 


Geordie Shore Season 8 Episode 6 - Today HD - full Ep
 
I will be analysing the  first 2 minutes of this episode with deep textual analysis . Throughout the whole of this episode, they show good looking women with plenty of flesh exposed, who are all dressed inappropriately and  at the same time the women are seen as sexualised fake looking dolls showing most of their assets and full on make-up and the men also shown topless and misbehaving. Also,   In some sense it make it seem as if these women are over the top dressed at all time of day. The high key lighting and top lighting that is used throughout the advert helps to exaggerate the glamorous look that they are trying to pull off.
 
As soon as they opened their mouths and words spoke out the first word was 'fucking home” 'were going to go fucking bizurk'  for the questions that were being asked towards them the behind camera. This shows how un educated this people in Geordie shore really are. Within the first 10 seconds of the episode for The Geordie Shore , one of the male cast members is taking off his trousers with a big smile on his face, this connotes how shameless they are.  All of the characters within the Geordie shore are all represented as to be literally ‘stupid’ characters. Also the type of language that is used throughout the episode are typically Essex vocabulary words such as ‘shaatup’ and ‘reem’ to promote themselves and the city that they are from. This relates to the hypodermic needle theory which actually influences the audiences to actually think that this is how the people in the UK actually talk like. They also make the viewer’s think that they all actually lack common sense, as some can’t even seem to stay focused on the questions that their asked about and the rest don’t even understand basic vocabulary. This reinforces the stereotype of the people of british people being stupid and lacking common sense all within this 1 episode as the more the clips change to another person the more we realise how much the cast of The Geodie Shore lack common sense.
 
All of the characters that are being shown are all beautiful men and women. This relates to the theory female gaze (Laura Mulvey) .This is done so that the male viewers can admire what they see for visual pleasure and also especially so that the females can also admire their looks and appearances and admire the fact of what makes the men admire them, which relates to the hypodermic needle as viewers will be influenced by this so that this can be copied by the female viewers themselves by copying their appearances and the way they act and thinking and also actually believing  that this how women are meant to be because male viewers admire them. The more viewers choose to watch this the more it would actually influence them to believe this.
The colours of the background that are used within all of the shots constantly change as each character changes, they use bright complimentary colour which connote fun, luxury and which the background tells us and helps create a sense of fun and exotic mood. The shots that they use are all medium close up length shots which are effectively used to show the face more clearly without getting too close and also show the background as being wide space, this most probably connotes freedom. The shots that are used are constantly changing after every 1-2 seconds showing a new face every time. Also the angle that the camera is placed at is straight ahead, this makes the viewers feel as if they are actually having a one to one with the cast members as they are answering questions to us.


 
 

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