1. Lesson aim: To analyse a clip for
how social class is represented
through micro-elements
Define social class in 10 words

2. SOCIAL CLASS
A group of people within a society that
possess the same economic status,
often determined by occupation,
education, income, manners, etc.

3. The British Social Class System
The British society has often been considered
to be divided into three main groups of
classes:
the Upper Class
Often people with inherited wealth. Includes
some of the oldest families, with many of them
being titled aristocrats.
the Middle Class
In pairs, discuss what a
stereotypical person in your
class would be like:
How would they look?
How would they sound?
What would they wear?
The majority of the population of Britain. They
include industrialists, professionals, business
people and shop owners.
Lower or Working Class
People who are agricultural, mine and factory
workers.

4. Upper Class

5. Lower Class

7. How has their class been represented?

8. How is social class represented
through editing?
1.Identify all the different editing techniques you can first
2.Then link the ones you can to superior/inferior
USE PEE
Does it subvert or conform
expectations?

9. Editing techniques
• Choose at least 4 and define:
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A:
B:
B:
B:
C:
Juxtaposition
Match on Action
Cross cutting (parallel editing)
Eyeline match
Pace
C:
B:
C:
B:
A:
B:
C:
Take
180 degree rule
Continuity editing
Montage editing
Graphic match
Jump cut
Transition
Ext: How would you represent upper class through editing?

10. How can SOUND represent Social
Class?
DIEGETIC DIALOGUE
• Plays a huge role in representing someone’s
character
• What can someone’s voice tell us about
them?

11. What would you expect these people to sound
like?

12. Shameless
• How does the dialogue represent their social
class?
• Does it subvert or conform expectations?
• Ext: What other sounds represent class?

13. P.E.A. Structure
• The diegetic dialogue is used to represent
social class.
POIN
T
• The older female character swears repeatedly
when she is angry showing her lack of
expression.
EVIDENC
E
• This conforms to a typical representation of
working class people who are less educated.
ANALYSI

14. Mid lesson Plenary
• Choose one of the classes: Upper, Middle,
Lower
• Write 50 words on how they would be
typically represented through all 4 micro
elements

15. Discuss the ways in which the
following extract represents social
class using the following:
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Mise en scene
Camera
Sound
Editing
View the clip 4 times, make notes, write for 45 minutes.

16. Camera work
• Medium shot used to show
mum eating – poor quality
food shows that this is a
working class family.
• Lots of high angles shots to
represent that they are
poor and not important to
society.
• Medium shot used to show
family in their small home.

17. Camera work
• Long shot also used to
show painter (working
class person) outside
small houses
• First shot in opening is an
establishing shot of Road,
which shows a working
class environment.
• Point of view shot used at
the being of young girl to
show the environment
and background she
comes from.

18. Editing
• Montage of dad working building siteoccupation shows working class.
• Montage was fast pace to show the audience
quickly the other view of the man’s job so that
the audience could establish his social class

19. Editing
• Scene the beginning uses zooming effect from
outside of the house into the house. This
shows the typical indoor and outdoor
environment of a working class area

20. How mise en scene represents social
class/status
The mise en scene in these shots show
people dressed in casual clothing that
looks like it has been worn a lot this
connotes low class people, also the
series of shots suggest that low class
people who work mediocre jobs like
building never have happy marriages
and this leads to cheating.

21. This shot shows a man dressed in a
suit and standing next to an
expensive car which suggests that he
is wealthy and well off, in a higher
class that people.
A man dressed in a
vest top watching
football suggest that
people who are low
class do nothing and
are lazy that all they
do is sit around watch
tv and drink
The mise en scene in
this shot shows a
pretty low quality
house with an
outside clothes line
and a woman and
her children in from
which suggests that
they live in bad
conditions
This picture suggest that
low class people live in
terraced and council
housing which links in
with where the factory
workers who were poor
used to live

22. This shot shows that the daughter has
been put on report this suggests that
lower class people’s children are badly
behaved and bad mannered causing
them to get into trouble. It also
suggests that they do not take
education seriously and are also badly
educated meaning they are stupid.

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How sound represents social class
In this particular clip most of the sound that is heard is Diegetic sound as most of it can
be heard. The only pieces of Non-Diegetic sound are the song in the intro. The piano
music when they are having the affair and the sound when the girl gets run over as that
would be a sound effect. The sound in intro and when the affair is happening has a
quite simple piano part but some beautiful violin sounds, this ties in with the two social
classes as the violin part could represent the higher class and the simple piano part
could represent the lower class.
• Diegetic Sound
- Shouting/Talking/Swearing
Music
- Background TV noise
- Background Train Noises
- Builders Work Noise
- Airplane Noise
- Car Noise when it brakes
- Accents
Non-Diegetic Sound
- Introduction
- Sound effect of girl getting
run over
- Music when the affair is
taking place

24. Lesson 2
• Starter:
• Write a PEARL on 3 aspects from yesterday’s
clip from The Street
• P oint
• E vidence
• A nalysis
• R esponse
• L ink

25. Now swap your answers
• Peer assessment:
• Have they used the PEARL structure?
• Have they answered the question?
• Have they used appropriate media terminology?
WWW Give them a mark out of 10, if 10 is an accurate,
well written answer including many media terms using
a PEARL for each point
EBI -Add a target for improvement e.g. – follow the PEE
structure for EVERY point

26. Discuss the ways in which the
following extract from CRANFORD
represents social class using the
following:
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Mise en scene
Camera
Sound
Editing
View the clip 4 times, make notes, write for 45 minutes.