At the very beginning of the scene an establishment shot is shown to introduce the scene and show the audience where the location is. The female character walks into an expensive shop this is shown by an over the shoulder shot behind the male shop assistant to show his authority and importance over the female character as she almost sleeks in unnoticed. However when the second male characters enters the shop further along in the narrative, a pan shot is used up and down on him to show his power in comparison to the women as he is immediately introduced into the scene which could suggest his role is more important than the females. The scene first shows two binary oppositions of women as there is the older woman who comes into the shop. The shot used is a high angled shot onto the women to show her vulnerability and weakness against the male shop assistant therefore stereotyping that men are more powerful than women and showing her ‘lower’ social class. In addition to this her clothes connote her social status and she and how she differs to the other female character that portrays a stereotypical blonde. The blonde character is well suited in dark black clothes that can reflect on her personality showing that she may be feisty and ‘dark’. Furthermore her pronunciation is ‘posh’ and pronounced English to suggest she is from a high social class and portrays the perfect image of a ‘Mulvey’ woman.
The shop assistant comes across as very camp and fits into a stereotypical homosexual group. Both his clothing and mode of address help to portray his sexuality. The blonde female’s ring is a key item for the narrative so the first shot of it is an eye line close up to show its importance and the females social status. As the narrative develops other scenes begin with characters from different places. Parallel editing is used to switch from scene to scene to show that each thing is happening at the same time. The rest of the scenes all include male characters and no female to suggest a dominance of the male role. In addition to this the proximity of the two men sitting at the bar is an eye line mid shot which helps to show their emotions and facial expressions.
Both digetic and non-digetic sounds are used in the sequence. In the third scene a man is fixing a bomb therefore not showing some aspects of verisimilitude. A digetic sound of an alarm is then used to startle the audience and the character. The alarm could be seen as a connotation of warning and trouble. In addition to this the male character is using technical equipment to use in the hustle whereas the female character has been used to seduce the shop assistant with her looks and ‘ditzy’ personality to do her part of the hustle. Therefore this shows the stereotypical female character being used as an object or a distraction to the male characters. As the narrative develops and the ring is lost non-digetic sound is used to build up tension and suspense. The female character is flustered and panicked as she exclaims 'my husband is going to kill me' this shows signs of gender representation and that the male is more powerful and dominates over the female character.
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