The Streets Analysis

This is the Streets analysis and I will be answering the questions on about Mise-en- scene, camera, sound and editing.

Mise-en-scene

The first one Mise-en-scene which mostly about props, location and characters, the first location tells us that the wife belongs in the house being a house wife not working but cleaning up and taking the kids to school I know this because she is seen to be cleaning the dishes whilst arguing with her husband in the first scene and this can be seen as being very feminine. The other location tells us that the husband belongs at a building site which is his job this can be seen a very masculine and alpha male because he is the working dad that goes to a dangerous job requiring him to carry heavy things and work with machinery which is quite masculine in terms of strength also him being the one that provides for his family shows that he may also be the alpha male.

The wife had a tight pink top which the colour is seen as feminine whilst the top being tight is shown as being quite provocative as well because it would shows of her assets which is quite manipulative to men, which could be seen as something an alpha female would do. The husband was wearing a lumber jack shirt at the building site, this could be seen as being manly because a lumber jack are normally strong men who cut down massive trees with an axe which requires a lot of physical strength with is one of the manly traits. He was also seen to be wearing a an unstylish grubby t-shirt this could point out that he is too lazy to put on other shirts, which laziness is normally associated with men or it could be seen as that he doesn’t have enough time and money to be spending on different t-shits so this could end up in categorizing this family with being in the working class. To further on define these characters you have some of the props that they were associated with, for example you had the husband with a hammer, which is a type of tool and tools are seen as manly because you use them to break or fix things which is what they usually do because they like to feel like they are dependent but also like the power of destruction as well. You had the woman eating the éclair which I think could have been seen as a phallic symbol especially how she ate it, it looked like it was done in a sexual way the same goes for when she liked her finger that looked pretty sexual as well.     

Camera

The camera makes the male look bigger and the female a lot smaller when it was using a point of view shot form the little girls perspective through the gap of the door this is when the camera would quickly transition between them in an aggressive way when they were arguing showing that it was an intense moment and the camera making the male seem bigger means that he had more power than the woman. Camera also made the female seem useless when the pipe broke in the house by using a high angle showing that she is small, vulnerable and in need for help this is backed up by her later on in that scene shouting for help. The camera had created some sexual tension by using close up of her liking her fingers in a sort of sexual way almost objectifying the female it also did created a sexual tension again by using a mid-shot, side angle when both the house wife and business man where staring at each other in a sexual way. Also the mid-shot in the scene looks as if somebody was peeping through the door way so it would make the audience feel like it is them peeping and you would normally peep if something naughty is going to happen.   

Sound

I would say that aggression is the sound that I would associate with the social groups which is working class and a desperate sound as well because it is like they are desperate for help due to their financial problems. The sounds do express how the character feels at times for example when the male was at his job the sounds where quite sharp, rough, angry and aggressive, loud which sort of leads down to being angry, frustrated which is what he was feeling from how hard he was hammering down that nail to break the concrete. You also had house wife in silence, this could be seen as her taking a moment to think to herself which I think is pretty feminine seeing as women think before they act where as men do the opposite and just act before thy think it’s sort of from their ego. These sounds where in sync with the edits with every time he was hammering the shot was using match on action, seeing him hammering from different angles and distances.

Editing

The editing goes well with the dialogue with when the parents where arguing so the camera was looking through the door as if it was a point of view shot but it was faded on the door and focusing on the parents and it would always transition quickly to whoever was talking. And that is what this scene relies on fast and quick editing with mostly being positioned with the female as if she was the main focus throughout the whole scene just so we could see how powerless she was I think. This whole scene re-enforces stereotypes telling us how media picks it out as it should be. (watch clip till 2:40)