Representation

We started watching a TV Drama in class called Our Girl. The main character in this is a female called Georgie Lane and she is represented in a certain way, she is a solder in the armed forces but she is taken by Muslim terrorists and is forced to be a medic for the terrorist’s injured soldiers. When she is captured she is put into a cell with another woman called Kiki, she had given up but Georgie is a mentally and physically strong woman so she didn’t give up, told Kiki to have faith in her and to not give up, that takes a lot of power and will.

Georgie is stereotyped as a woman and she is done up with makeup and her hair looks good even though she is in the middle of a war zone and she has near to nothing unclean about her apart from the makeup that has been purposely put on to make her look like she hasn’t showered. The area around her in comparison to her is extremely dirty and you would have thought that she’d look worse in the conditions that she’s in but she doesn’t. This is done to make her stand out in front of the background and be more appealing for the viewers to watch. Later in the episode that we watched kiki, the woman that I mentioned before, looked very rough compared to Georgie and this is done because they want to emphasise how she looks and stereotype her as a woman a lot more.

Camera Work

There were a lot of different shots throughout the clip that we watched which was at the end of s2 e1. Most of the time the shots were very close up, they did this to make the scene more intense and look like there’s more action then there really is. There were also a few low angle shots for the terrorists to make them look like they are completely overpowering the soldiers in the ambulance. When the main antagonist leaves the car there is a tracking shot on him to show that he is the main antagonist and that he is the person you need to watch out for, it also gives the scene a lot more action because you know that he is a powerful man. Finally, there was an establishing shot of the ambulance at the very start of the clip and they did this to show the ambulance was alone away from the convoy and that’s when they got jumped by the terrorists.

Sound

Throughout the scene there was a  lot of different sounds, one of the main sounds was sound bridging, this is where when the scene changes the audio stays from the scene before. Also, the sounds of gunfire shows that the scene is very action pact and the shooters have a lot more control than everyone else.  There's music throughout the scene and most of it is really intense because of the content of the clip when the terrorists and the ambulance meet. Also there's a fair amount of dialogue throughout the scene and this makes it even more intense because the main antagonist shouts at the people in the ambulance and the same with Georgie Lane and one of the soldiers' last conversations which is upsetting because he's a nice character of what you know of him. 

Editing

Throughout the clip that there's a few different types of editing, the main type of editing was fast pace editing and this means there's lots of very small cuts to different angles and positions to make the scene much more intense. Also at some point through the scene there was a slow fade which came with some music that followed onto the next scene and this shows that the two scenes are linked in some way.

Mise-en-Scene

The whole of the scene was very dusty and looked run down and even abandoned and this compared to the main character of Georgie where she looks very made up is really obvious. Also, the clothing that everyone's wearing is dirty but that's expected because it's a military outfit. All of the terrorists wear very dark clothing that covers their bodies. All of the lighting that is on this scene is natural, bright sunlight to make the scene look more natural and less fake to the audience.