CHERIE: BOOKENDING YOUR FOOTAGE

Additional available props this session

Next step in your film opening Cherie is an opening and closing fragment of moving image that adds context. 

• You have some freedom to create your version of the first and last clips 
• They must be very brief. 
• You are 'bookending' what we have already shot.
• Filming and editing to be completed this session!

 

IDEAS FOR OPENING SCENE

•  A girl wearing the black period hat is silhouetted against a window and turns towards the camera. She is holding something significant.
• A girl carefully pulls on (or takes off) black lace gloves
• A man writes a letter / postcard and pauses to look up
• A young couple toast themselves with wine glasses

IDEAS FOR CLOSING SCENE

• A couple are seen side by side, but something is wrong and they are clearly in dispute.
• A girl gazes at a wedding photo (over the shoulder shot) then places the photo upside down
• A man arranges a black mourning veil over a girl's head and shoulders

G321 REPRESENTATION OF GENDER

The extracts are from Made In Dagenham (dir. Nigel Cole 2010), a dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Characters in the extracts:

• Rita (young Ford machinist who becomes the machinists' spokesperson)
• Connie (older Ford machinist  who is struggling with family problems)
• Albert (Union rep)
• Monty (the shop steward)
• Mr Hopkins (Ford management)
• Lisa Hopkins (his wife)
• Mr Clarke (school teacher)

The scenes: 

1. The Union meeting with management after lunch at a Berni Inn   
2. Rita confronts Mr Clarke for beating her son
3. Lisa visits Rita to report that Mr Clarke has been dismissed

PREP: Discuss the ways in which the extracts construct representations of gender using the following:

  • Mise-en-scene 

  • Editing

  • Sound 

  • Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
In the first scene, we see ....