Textual Analysis:Eastenders

How is class represented in this scene?

In this scene of eastenders we can see that working classes are represented within the families of walford. They represent the Bartenders and the caterers who both clearly have families who are the 'mitchells','masoods' and the 'beales'.We can judge ths from the overall impressio of the people in seuence is that they all seem to have some sort of discreet problem with each other and that they also have a lot of tension between each other. The response of the overall impression of the the people in the scene is negative becuase everything they seem to say is negative or bad, and there is a lot of conflict particularly within the families. We can see this when Zainab accuses her husband Masood of cheating on her with jane beale. This represents the class of Zainab as a female quite low thinking she has some sort of authority and power and also control of accusing her husband with the little evidence that she has.

I think that the class they represented Zainab in is qite offence to other females wo watch it, as maybe maes who watch eastenders will gain the perception that this is how all females are.Within the sequence we can see that different types of ethnicities are represented within eastenders which are asian and white in the sequence. This shows an sense of realism (berisimilatude) instead of just having one race represented within the sequence.By different ethnicities being represented it shows us that the catering service is and multi-cultural catering service and the community of walford is also multi-cultural.As an whole the community as a whole is represented as working class families that have blue color jobs and are doing manual labour and that none of them seem to leave the domestic enviroment apart from one person(Libby) who is off to Oxford University.

We can see that the community as an whole are not people that have gone to university or taken their education to the next level or work in the city an it is an typical prception of the easend with the graffiti on the walls which you ar emost likely to see in the reality of the east end..For the simple fact that they are all almost blue color workers i think thats what makes them join together and get to know each other in the area for conflict to be brought between different families.The characters costumes and surroundings suggest that they are quite layed back they are not of a proper high working class or maybe even a middle class asin the sequence we see them wearing casual clothing and kitchen uniform. They are more of blue colors, who work in the market, therefore they can't wear suits as the type of job that they do involves them getting dirty and so they wear their own csual clothing.The dialogue of the scene between zainab and masood is very aggresive and it has a lot of fued and anger within it. As they are both angry . One is angry at the simple fact that she thinks her husband is cheating on her with jane and the other angry at the fact the wife is accusing him and jane of having an affair.

The clues that gives us about the reprsentation of the characters is that they are very upront and outspoken.There are plenty of two shots used when there are dialogues.Showing the characters facial expressions.Like the two shot between Peggy and Joel shows the unity between them two.However there is also an two shot with the caterers between Zainab and Masood showing the conflict and anger between them both.There is also an up close shot of Syed showing the guilt on his face as his mother and his father are arguein becuase zainab is accusing her husband of cheating on her .Once again there are overshoulder shots of zainab and masood showing th overshoulder of conflict but this time it includes jane where masood and jane are standing side by side looking towards zainab from an over shoulder shot.

In conclusion we can see that class is represented in various ways in eastenders within the sequence. Through the argument between zainab and masood we can see how a womans class is represented and how a mans class is represented. We can see how the class of the community is represented with the graffiti on the wall and the casual clothed people around the square. We can see the class through the typical 'quck drink' at the pub. All of this just shows how the life of the working class families are within the community and what they class is of the way that they dress to go to work.

Dennotation and Connotation Of Reading Posters For Skins.

Dennotation/Connotation Of Skins Posters.

Characters:

In the reading for the skins poster you can see the characters seem very mature in their faces despite the fact they are meant to be around the ages of 16-18. They are not fully dressed, and the poster seems to be inappropriate to the audience that they are aiming at which are teenagers because in the first poster , the person in the bath seems to be nude and this is normal but not normal to be neccesarily put on a post for a tv programme aimed at teenagers. In the second poster we can evidently see that the teens are careless teenagers as most them seem nude and are either interacting in a sexual way with a boy or girl. This sort of poster is sending out an bad image and bad influence to their aimed audience.

Additional Props.

For the additional props in the first image it clearly shows an boy looking as if he is trying to commit suicide.This could show tot the audience that the boy evidently has issues effecting him in his everyday life for him to be posed in an image where it gives the audience the impression he is trying to commit suicide.In the second image, everyone in the image seems to be engaging in some sort of sexual act or nude act. We have the main person that stands ou of the image which is the female in underwear and people around her that seem to be getting it on. Then we have an boy in the background of everything that is going on sitting in the bed by himself, looking very hopeless and left out from what the others are doing. The boy in the background seems to be looking on at what is going on rather than engaging or joining in with these careless teenagers. He doesn't seem to be as careless as these other teens in the image even although he is posed naked in a bed.

Settings

In the first image the setting is evidently in a bathroom as the main feature of the image is an boy in a bath filled with water.The enviroment of the bathroom seems to be very dirty, unhygenic and not cared for.This could show that the same way the bathroom is not cared for is the same way the boy in the bath tub does not care for himself and this could be an reason to explain why he is attempting to commit suicide.

In the second image we can see about eight teenagers crammed in on small room obviously living the wild party typical freedom lifestyle.

Interior Design

In the first image the bathroom is once again as i mentioned before dirty and not in order. Theres a shaving stick,soap bar and some sort of bottle of liquid on the side. In any normal bathroom these sort of things shouldn't be on the side and should be in order.The interior of the bathroom wall seems to be distorted and has some sort of cracks in it.Almost as if it is an abandoned bathroom.The second image backs up 'living the wild party typical freedom lifestyle' because the wallpaper on the wall all over seems to be torn and messy and clearly dirty,which shows no sign of parents or guardians around these teenagers.

Colour

The colours of both images are not bright and neither have they been put in monochrome however the images have a destaturated colour almost like a dead effect showing that all hope is loss for the teenagers in these images.The destaturated image also comes across as an very moody,depressive colour.

Lightening

The lightening in boths images are very dim and there doesn't seem to be any light pin pointed only one person out of the image. This shows us that the image is about everything that has been included in the image.The light being dim in the image shows that there is no proper life or good things going on inside both of these images.

Conclusions
Both images show some sort of negativity. From the interior design of the image which isn't very friendly to the enviroment of both images. The colour of both images showing us there is no real life to what they do and everything that is going on in both images come across or are portrayed in a negative way. Their skin posters can come across as disturbing,rude, insulting(to people who have teenage kids),inappropriate and also offensive as everything that is going on in the images are very inappropriate.