Regional Identity in Doc Martin

Regional Identity is present is many different ways in the clip for Doc Martin. 

In the opening scene Regional Identity is shown through the costuming, in the long shot we can see Doc Martin wearing a suit while the other characters are wearing boiler suits, this shows that he comes from somewhere where people working in very formal clothing while the other characters don't wear formal clothing and can get away with wearing whatever they feel comfortable in. The costuming also suggests that the characters wearing the boiler suits are doing manual labour whereas because Doc Martin is wearing a suit it suggests that he is doing more work to do with using the brain more.  This also suggests to the audience the Doc Martin is from a higher class than the other characters. The use of their own words and the fact that Doc Martin doesn’t understand what it means shows that Regional identity is also show by the way that they characters talk, the workers have a more rural accent whereas Doc Martin has a different accent, a posher accent, which makes him stand out. The manner of the characters also represent the place they come from, the characters that come from the rural area are much more relaxed compared to Doc Martin who comes from a much more urban area where things happen much quicker than in the country, this represents their attitude to the situation while because Doc Martin is stressed about the situation while the workers are relaxed in the situation.  The décor in the scene matches the place as it appears to be an old village that hasn’t moved with the time whereas the Doc has, the fact that the sink needs fixing relates to the fact that the town is old and tells the audience that the village is stuck in the old days and hasn’t made any effort to move with the time. The fast editing that has been used to show the Docs mood as he gets more stressed about the situation but it also use to represent the life he used to have. When nobody reacts to the dog entering the scene nobody seems to notice or care except Doc Martin this shows that he really has moved out of his comfort zone. The high angle shot of the dog makes him look innocent and lost almost like Doc Martin as he is lost in this rural town as he is used to living in a urban area.

When Doc Martin is seen walking around the streets there is asynchronous diegetic sound of the seagulls is used to show regional identity because it tells the audience that the programme is set by the sea and this helps the audience narrow down where exactly where it is set, also the small thin winding lanes also help the audience narrow down where the programme is as there are very few places that have windy road like that. A tracking shot is used to show the urgency of Doc Martins walk compared to everyone else in the scene as they are walking around the town slowly and without a care. The Policeman are shown as very relaxed which gives the audience the impression that in rural areas there is a low crime rate compared to urban areas this is show by the tilt shot from the hoover to the police officer suggesting that the village is safe and that the police officer is so confident in the fact that he doesn’t even need to patrol the area. The old computer in the background reinforces the fact that the village is stuck in the past and hasn’t moved forward unlike the life the life the Doc is used to.  The fact that the policeman is hovering rather than enforcing the law tells the audience that it is a safe place as he has the time to do the hovering. The dialogue is used to show that the village is very small and everyone is friends with each other where as in a large city not everyone would be friends, this tells the audience that everyone knows everyone’s business and knows exactly what is going on, this is also shown through the fact that the women by her car knows who Doc Martin is without him even introducing himself, the slower editing used here suggests to the audience that he has more patience to deal with a situation involving her than a situation with the two plumbers, where very fast paced editing is used to show that the Doc is becoming stressed about the situation. Regional Identity is also show when Doc Martin is walking down the street and he can see into the primary school, this also tells the audience that he village is save because if this was in a city there would be large walls around the school so no one could look in, also in the background houses can be seen made out of different colour rocks which is commonly associated with seaside towns. The fact that the village is very small is shown by the fact that there is no one walking down the street and the fact that the town is not very busy, this also suggests to the audience that the village isn’t a holiday resort town otherwise it would be a bit busier. The fact that the community is tightly knit is shown when the women implies that the old doctor used to write prescriptions in the street suggesting that everyone trusts each other, this is also shown through the fact that the women with the vegetables knows all about the school teacher whereas in larger communities most people don’t pay attention to other people within the community as there are too many people to get to know.  

In the opening scene the local people are represented as having their own local dialect, this is shown by what the saying when they use words such as ‘bodmin’ rather than using the word ‘barmy’. In the scene when the older lady is asking Doc Martin for a repeat prescription in the street suggests that she knows how to manipulate the situation to get what she wants and knows the exact works to say ‘ladies of a certain age’, suggests that she will get what she wants no matter what the cost. In the shot with the plumbers the younger plumber is shown as being very intelligent as he talks about Daphne de Maurier and make literary links to the word ‘bodmin’ this suggests to the audience that he knows what he is talking about. The long shot first used in this scene suggests that the young plumber has the lowest status in the room as he Is closest to the bottom of the screen, but when he start to become more involved with the conversation he is shown as going up in status because he stands up and is now higher than the old plumber, this is shown by a tilt shot as he stands up.

The use of fresh produce as a prop tells the audience that this is somewhere that fresh produce is grown and sold telling the audience that it is rural rather that urban because if it was urban it would be in boxes in packaging being delivered by a big lorry instead of which they are being delivered unpackaged in crates in the back of a pick-up truck, this suggests that people who live in rural areas eat more healthily because they will eat the fresh produce from the local shop..  This shows the audience that local produce is key to the village and is the woman’s lively hood. The fact that the shop is very small represents its rural nature and the fact that it is the local shop so should be small as local shops are never very big. The colour of the women’s clothes also suggests that she works outside as she is wearing clothes that are dark green and brown which suggests to the audience that she works outside, the fact that she works outside is also suggested through the fact that she is the one taking the vegetables into the shop.

Checklist of thing to look for while analysing

Mise-en-scéne 
Setting 
Decor 
Lighting 
Body Language/Movement or Blocking
Props
Costumes
Make-up 

Editing 
Cuts 
Dissolves 
Fades 
Wipes 
Jump Cut 
Cross Cutting 
Cutaways 
Freeze Frames 
Flashbacks 
Graphic Match 
Juxtaposition 
Linear Narrative 
Match on Action 
Continuity 
Montage 
Parellel Editing 

Sound 
Diegetic 
Non-Digetic 
Synchronous 
Asynchronous 
Music 

Camera Work
Shot Types 
Camera Angles 
Camera Movement
Pan
Tilt
Track
Dolly
Crane
Steadicam
Zoom
Hand Held
Reverse Zoom
Composition
Framing
Rule of thirds
Depth of Field
Deep and Shadow Focus
Focus Pulls

Disablity Analysis

In the opening long shot disability is shown in a positive way, Billy is shown with a lot of freedom and it appears that he is in control of his life and knows what he is doing. The use of simple of clothing makes his disability less obvious however the fact that he is wondering around alone in the dark makes him look very suspicious.  The fact that Billy is the first character shown suggests to the audience that he is the main character in the episode and suggests that his disability will play a strong part in the episode. When a medium close up of Billy’s face is used to show Billy’s anger. This presents disability in a negative way due the fact that his is very angry and looks quite suspicious due to the fact that he is wondering around in the dark alone. When the police spots Billy and they chase after him, he looks scared and this presents disability in a negative way because it suggests that he doesn’t understand the rules due to the fact that he runs. When the policeman catches up with him and tackles him to the ground disability is shown as something that needs to be controlled and something that needs to be contained which suggests that people with disability’s cant be trusted to stop on their own. When the policeman pulls Billy up by his collar, Billy keeps repeating the words ‘I haven’t done anything wrong’; this shows that he is scared and that he doesn’t have the life skills to understand what is going on around him.

When Frost arrives to speak to Billy he explains that he needs to have someone with him while he interviews Billy. This suggests to the audience that something bad could happen and that people with disabilities may find the situation stressful and may not want to co-operate as much as people without disability’s. The use of the words mentally subnormal and handicap tell the audience the episode was made a long time ago as the words would no longer be considered acceptable. When Billy’s mother says she is going to clean him up using as bowl of water. This gives the audience the impression that Billy is very childlike as his parents still baby him and do everything for him. This also suggests to the audience that Billy is incapable of looking after himself and still needs his parents around to look after him. When Billy’s dad enters Billy says that he hasn’t done anything, just like a child would before they are going to get told off, which reinforces the fact that Billy is childlike. Billy’s dad has to explain what Frost is doing there which tells the audience again that Billy is childlike as everything is having to be explained to him just like it would have to be if Frost was interviewing a child. The fact that Billy’s dad sits behind him suggests that Billy will need someone to defend him and make sure he is ok through out he process suggesting that he doesn’t know how to protect himself.

When Frost starts the interview he kneels down to a child’s height while he is talking to Billy, which suggests that he is talking to Billy in the way he would talk to a child because this will make him feel more comfortable. The fact that Billy wont make eye contact with Frost makes the audience suspicious of Billy because commonly it is thought that if you don’t make eye contact with someone you are lying so this makes the audience feel like Billy is hiding something from them. Frosts first question for Billy is very informal and gives the audience the idea that Frost is trying to create a friendly rapport with Billy to try make him relax and feel comfortable to answer his questions.

When Frost asks Billy where he was and he reply’s Workshop, this gives the audience the idea that Billy doesn’t have enough social skills to have a real job. This makes the assumption that disabled people cant have a job because of the fact that he was at workshop and not at work shows the audience that he is unemployed and is unable to get a job but it also shows the audience that there are other things for disabled people to do rather than just sit at home and do nothing.

When Frost questions begin to annoy Billy he starts to get angry and less cooperative suggesting that he is hiding something. The fact he Billy is looking everywhere but Frost (shown through the match of eye lines in the shots where Billy is looking at Frost) suggests to the audience that Billy is hiding something.  Billy’s dad can be seen in the background of the shot show that he is there to support Billy but the fact that he doesn’t step in as Billy starts to get angrier suggests that this is normal for Billy and happens a lot. The editing between Billy and Frost makes the audience feel like they are actually watching the conversation. The editing gives the audience time to assume that Billy is lying because of the fact that he isn’t looking at Frost.

Billy turns round to his dad and this is like a cry for help because Billy knows that he can count on his dad to look after him. This shows that Billy is very childlike because he is angry at the question and just wants the interview to end; this is show during the final shots of Billy as he becomes more and more restless about the situation. The fact that he try’s to cover up what his dad has said suggests that he is hiding something and the quick response tells the audience that he doesn’t want Frost to question him about where he was after his dads comment. The repletion of the words ‘didn’t see her’ tells the audience that he is trying to cover something up and he doesn’t want Frost to continue to ask him questions.

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I tend to go to the cinema once a month I either go with my family or with my friends. We only go if there is a film we really want to see. Only one of us ever buys the popcorn then we all share the popcorn between us all. We also all bring drinks from home so the only thing we have to buy are the tickets.

 I have access to cable TV in the lounge by BT vision. It has film channels on it such as Film Four or Movie Mix it also has a box office on it and you can rent or buy movies and then watch them on the TV. In 2003 it was found that there was an average of 2.03 television per UK households however by 2012 this had dropped to just 1.83 television set per household. 53% of UK adults are now media multi-tasking meaning while watching TV, this can involve anything from scrolling through the internet to tweeting what is happening in the show.  Media stacking is also used a lot while watching television this involves watching something on TV and doing other things unrelated to what you are watching on TV. 32% of people will surf the net, 22% will look at social networking sites and 16% will do online shopping. 52% of children aged between 5 and 15 have TV’s in their rooms. People are reverting to having just 1 television in their home, 41% of households have 1 TV at home compared to 2002 when just 35% of households had 1 TV.

I don’t have a DVD player in the lounge but both my mother and myself have DVD players in our rooms this is because we only tend to watch movies when there is nothing on the TV. We don’t own a blue-ray player but my dad has one. I buy disks for my DVD player but not very often as I often buy films on my tablet so I can watch them anywhere that I like. I don’t have access to a hard disk recorder however we can record on the BT vision box that we have. I tend to record films on there and then watch them later on. I also tend to keep them on there for a long time so that I can re-watch them again and again.

I have Internet access both at my mums and my dad’s.  I use the Internet on all my devices such as my iPhone, tablet and laptop. I tend to watch movies on the Internet using my laptop on different websites such as Netflix or Amazons prime instant video to watch movies. I tend to watch them on my tablet but its harder to watch them on it as they don’t always load or can take a long time to buffer. I never watch them on my iPhone because the screen is too small. Media meshing was seen widely during the Wimbledon Men’s tennis final in 2013. This was because 1.1 million people where tweeting worldwide. Hashtags associated with the tennis final were used 2.6 million times and 80% of the tweets came from mobile devices. The number of people who own a smartphone has reached 72% in the UK growing 14% in the last 10 months. People aged between 25 and 30 are the mostly likely to own a smartphone with 89% of them owning a smartphone, but people aged 16 to 24 come in a close second with 85% of them owning a smartphone.  54% of people aged 54 to 65 now also own smartphones.

I watch unprofessional videos on either YouTube or on apps such as vine. I watch them on these sites as they offer some of the best vlog videos on them when I do watch films online I tend to watch them in a group of people as I only tend to use online film sites when no one in the group knows what we should all watch, so sites such as Netflix come in really handy in those kinds of situations as almost all movies are on there so we are always able to find a film for everyone.

I have access to a video camera at home and I also have one on my phone I use the video camera on my phone more than the actual video camera because my iPhone is more accessible than the actual video camera. I make home videos on them to remember events such as Christmas and birthdays. I do make videos but they don’t get shared because they are memories that are special to my family and not anyone else.