prime evil

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In this blog I will be reviewing a short clip from Primeval we watched in class. I will be looking at the characters, the relationships between them, the roles of them and how they are portrayed throughout the clip. I will be Mise-en-scene to help me identify these factors. Above is a link to the clip we watched.


Characters/costumes


There are a total of seven characters in the clip. There are five men and two females.




Men


The men are all in smart casual wear apart from 1, one of the men is wearing a suit, another a shirt and another is in just everyday clothes that he is prepared to get dirty, this may suggest that the men are predominantly the ones doing the dirty work in this scene. Four out of the five men are all portrayed as masculine men and people who are not afraid to get their hands dirty and do the dirty work, but there is also one man who comes across a more feminine male who is happy to just watch over the others work and doesn't like doing the dirty work. We can see this as he is wearing a hat and fingerless clothes, this portrays he cares more about his looks rather than doing any dirty work. It also follows the stereotypes of a gay man. He is also seen looking on to the other men doing the work. The 'gay' man is also seen picking up a shovel where as the other men are seen picking up a gun which is seen as a more manly weapon. The other men also come across as superior and more physically strong this is portrayed later in the scene as we see the men holding a gun which come across as strong, manly weapons.


Women


There are two women in the clip. one of the women is dressed in a revealing dress, this portrays the women are there to look good and watch the men do the work. Although to counter this one of the females is in not so revealing clothes but rather in everyday clothes she is not afraid to get dirty. this suggests the women are not only there to look good for the men but are instead actually there to help the men and do their own thing and do the dirty work. The woman in the more revealing and classy clothes is straight away portrayed as a weak character where as the woman in the more scruffy clothes is portrayed as being stronger and more hands on, this is because she is shown as helping one of the men catch the sabre-toothed tiger.