Cutting it Analysis - Homework.

Cutting it Analysis

My initial thoughts:
During the Cutting it clip, there was a representation of Gender shown. Gender refers too Masculine and feminine traits. This short clip revealed that the women has the feminine traits while her husband had the masculine traits. Through out this clip, the media does not battle against the stereotypes instead it influences it. The feminine women was shown to be 'emotional' with the way she would either be upset with her husband,  cry about her news, become snappy and grumpy after being all 'loving and caring' with her husband like she was in the beginning. She is also shown to be emotionally jealous about this 'Melissa' female that by interpretations that he was either seeing or doing things with her. The last representation of the female character was that she always looked perfect and tidy, even when she was hit by a car near the end of this clip, her make-up and hair did not smudge or become ruined. The masculine husband was also influenced with stereotypes, through out the clip he was shown to have a high status in his life with the amount of times he had married. But also emotionless as he did not seemed phased with his wife's attention he was receiving and he did not respond with crying when she died at the end of this given clip. He was also shown to be wearing a suit as a normal everyday life meaning that he was independent and the bread winner out of this family. The last thing that really stood out with him in a stereotypical influence was that he was slightly aggressive before he was blocked out with his own wife's comments.

Camera work:
To begin the clip, a quick action shot was used to reveal the husband and wife being together in the taxi. This action shot, represents the gender in this clip by showing the women to rely on the husband (The breadwinner), her actions would show this as she would lean into his side and show all her happiness that she felt protected by his 'strong masculinity'. The man is also shown to be 'compassionate' when he lifts her hand and kisses the fingers. The audience would interpret this as him being the 'stereotypical gentleman' who looks after his wife like a prize. After this action, the action shot also reveals to the audience that feminine people are very 'emotional'. This is shown when the women look away to the taxi window with a 'grumpy' and 'moody' face. This camera shot all together is used to show how the masculine gender try their hardest to show how compassionate and loving they can be while the feminine gender would ignore this and become suddenly moody as if the masculine person is not aloud to do this.

The next two shots are close up shots of the husband and wife's facial expressions as their topic of conversation becomes serious about the past. The name 'Miranda' also popped up during the conversation when the masculine character would end the conversation before the feminine character decides too place down her jealousy about Miranda in a comment. By using these close up shot, while it become a shot reverse shot the audience are able to interpret that the feminine character is extremely jealous like they would be in a stereotypical view while the masculine character is shown to be emotionless and not completely fussed over the past.

The next shot that really stood up and actually went against the stereotypical views on feminine and masculine people was the close up shot of the feminine character placing her hand upon the masculine characters hand. This opposition shown the feminine character supporting the masculine character, when this is usually produced the other way around. The fact that a close up shot was used, was to shock the audience a little as most of the clip follows the stereotypes and only contrasts against it once. 

After the constant shot reverse shots of the close ups while the conversation deepened. When the couple got out of the taxi another action shot was used to only reveal to the audience where this taxi stopped, this created them to question it before the other the shoulder shots were used suddenly. These over the shoulder shots mainly shown the audience the reactions of the feminine character as she shown no mercy representing that feminine people do not care about the pain they give others while the masculine character shown that masculine people are very short fused and can become angrily quickly if they've been tricked.