Stereotype types

Birmingham stereotypes:

• Brummies are seen as dummies
• less intelligent 
• less attractive

Northerners:

• gray and chips
• cold climate
• working class
• dual surroundings

Southerners:

• more expensive
• tourists there 
• upper class

Essex:

• fake tan
• Teen mum
• underage drinking
• short clothes
• Quite dim
• partying

English:

• polite
• posh accent
• fish and chips
• tea
• moaning about whether
• scones 
• racist
• obsessed with beer and football
• very rich 

Londoners:

west Londoners:

• snobby upper class
• Hugh Grant
• posh

east London:

• poor
• common
• lower class
• criminalistic 

Irish:

• Drink a lot 
• pale
• gossip
• swear
• hard to understand-talk fast.
• religious 
• friendly but less intelligent
• farm

Scots:

• Angry 
• drunk
• like haggis 
• hate english 
• Patriotic 
• red hair
• sheep
• fight a lot 
• kilts 

Somerset/devon:

• Farms
• Countrysides
• cider
• less intelligent
• "Backwards"

Liverpool

• "Our" in front of something
• draw on eyebrows 
• hair rollers
• beetles 
• fake labels
• criminals
• "CHAVS"

Welsh

• Sheep

North England:

• poorer
• bad weather 
• builders
• workers

Regional Identity- refers to the part of the UK someone is from.

•  setting
• accents
• Dialogue 
• props
• makeup
• Class of character
• costumes

Shameless: 

-swearing 

"Course I will you daff bugger"

-drunk

2. Brookside

Liverpool

tracksuits

Gangs

angry 

"you can stick it"

violence 

3. TOWIE

botox

long out words

less intelligent 

eyebrows drawn

bold makeup

"Babes"

low cut tops

"Big teeth" "big lips"- fake

Questions to keep in mind when watching a media clip…

Where are they from within the country?
different areas shown? different personalities behaviours? 
is it being represented as important in their life?
are people portrayed as being better more powerful?
are people portrayed as being abnormal/weaker/ more pathetic than others?
how do they treat characters from different regions?
what is the message the clip is trying to portray?


DOC MARTIN….

Mise en scene
work clothes
Rushed
busy
Lanes
sea gulls
small town
vegetables-farming
brick houses- very rural
Blue overalls
Camera
Levels- doc martin standing- workers sitting




Sound
Cornwall
"kinda like" "what appens is"
Lacks nouns- less intelligent
Seem dim
Working class
Laid back
Angry people(Doc )
rude people
"This happens all the time"- no cares- he's the worker yet he isn't doing anything to stop the leak


Editing
Natural lighting
not in a made up set- clear lighting


There is contrast- Doc martin seems educated and posh- in a suit- privilege area- higher class compared to everyone else- a snob- "he didn't care for hygiene either"
yet everyone else is laid back.