The focus for representation is gender. The extract is on the school's CLICKVIEW under Media Studies>Exams.
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Scene 1 (opening shot)
ECU woman's anguished face
pill bottle foregrounded
ECU trembling hands compelled to reach for tablets clearly against woman's will
soundbridge: diegetic sound of dialogue, announcement by police press officer to assembled journalists about woman's death / motivated edit (= leads to next clip to explain/ amplify)
woman constructed as helpless victim
Scene 2 (press conference)
how authority / power is constructed / undermined
posture/ gesture / body language: contrast between female press officer with confident body language and male detective inspector who frowns, brow furrowed, often glancing down, not meeting journalists' eyes, hands clasped self-protectively, licks lips, verbal hesitations
diegetic / ambient sound: dialogue female press officer seizes initiative after first set of Sherlock's text message challenges, commanding tone "Please ignore them".
Two shot of press officer and Lestrade has Lestrade in focus looking embarrassed and uncomfortable as press officer attempts unsuccessfully to close meeting
editing: VFX second set of text messages humiliates Lestrade ("we have our best people investigating') and constructs Sherlock as arrogant
diegetic / ambient sound: Lestrade's dialogue with Daily Mail female journalist (patronising, sarcastic tone, followed by recovery /repair comments)
forms of address
editing: VFX text messages
reaction shot
point of view shot
motivated edit
non-diegetic sound (leitmotif is a recurring musical idea (a melody, chord sequence, rhythm) which is associated with a particular idea, character or place.
non-diegetic sound (orchestral)
Scene 3 (office)
tracking shot
Scene 4 (park)
hard cut
tracking shot
how masculinity is constructed
how disability is constructed
two-shot
who is privileged in the frame
posture/ gesture / body language
diegetic / ambient sound: dialogue (clipped evasive response, blocking dialogue)
reaction shot
the function of the close-up, of the extreme close-up
motivated edit (takes the viewer to Sherlock via the dialogue about "the second person to say that to me today".
Scene 5 (autopsy)
mise-en-scene
female working in her professional capacity but CUs of face, manner of expression, offers evidence that she is visibly flirting with Sherlock
ambient sound (beating) a shock: inappropriate / insensitive?
reaction shots
shot -reverse shot
gender relations at odds
non-diegetic sound / dialogue: female's misinterpretation of observation about her lipstick
S's deliberate misconstruction of suggestion of date
S's body language / manner curt
