How is gender represented in the Dalziel & Pascoe episode ‘a clubbable woman’?

 Gender is represented in mise-en-scene by using the setting and characters. In most of the scenes it denotes the setting in a ruby club, which has a pub inside. This connotes it the masculine side of the men, from where ruby is a contact sport and is known for men playing the game, for example the opening scene were the men in a scrum playing rugby. It also connotes that man are the ones who can handle alcohol drink, for example after the rugby match they went straight inside where the pub is and had a ‘pint’. Then later on in the episode when it was late at night there was a scene in the pub where it denoted at lot of men and only a few women. This connotes that the pub is mostly dominated by the men for example there was a crowd of men surrounding one women because she was a flirt from where she had loads of men to flirt with.

In sound with ambience and non-diegetic sound gender is also represented.  The ambience music denoted trumpets, which is a strong loud wind instrument, whilst the men where playing rugby. This connoted that the men were strong and growled loud when they play rugby and it gave the scene a more manly tone to it, which then lead on to an incident and a man got hurt. Then it denotes a non-diegetic sound of a heart beat once the man gets home, which connotes that he is not feeling to good and from the loudness of heart beat you can tell it is a sound put on top of the clip (non-diegetic).

Gender is then represented with camera by using different shot types and angles. With some of the shots it denotes a low angle when filming the men, this connotes power and that they are more important compared to women. Then it mostly denotes mid shot when filming women, which connotes that they are making sure they can get their breasts in the shot to show the body part that men pay the most attention to.

In editing with titles gender is in addition represented. The titles are denoted in capital letters with a white font colour, it is also underlined and has a line on top. This connotes the male dominance of the TV drama because of capital letters. Capital letter are usually used at the beginning of sentence or for the names of places and people, therefore when a whole word consistence of capital letter it makes it more noticeable and harsh which is like the harshness of the game rugby.