The fear essay

The extract from the TV drama 'The Fear' is used to construct representations of social class using techniques such as mise-en-scene, sound, camera shots and editing.

One of the characters has a very strong Scottish accent. This creates a serious and aggressive feel whenever he talks, even if he isn't being particularly aggressive. However in this clip, he is being very aggressive and the scottish accent contributes to the effectiveness of the dialogue. The diegetic sound in the clip makes it feel dangerous and tense. Especially when he is in the doctors room and he plays some music, because it was silent apart from dialogue between the two, then out of nowhere he plays the music very loudly from his phone. When doing this he is trying to make a point about the doctors past, which suggests they used to be friends and he feels he has changed. He is not happy about this and wants to intimidate the the doctor into giving him what he wants. It represents the scottish man as much lower class than the doctor and the scottish man is a representation of the lower class being aggressive, arrogant and ignorant. Especially when he says 'You're a doctor as far as I'm concerned' That shows that he is uneducated a nd naive because he is a plastic surgeon and not a doctor.

The extract represents the lower class as violent because the scottish man threatens to hit the woman at the reception when she says he cant see the plastic surgeon and he needs to move his car. This shows that the lower class are not as educated as others as most people would just not resort to violence. The miss-en-scene in the scene shows that it is a high class office, because everything looks new and the desk is glass. This shows that the plastic surgeon has done well for himself and the scottish man is envious of him and wants to spoil what he has as he doesn't want him to be happy. Perhaps the doctor used to be of lower class, such as the scottish man.

When the man is in the reception, there is an over the shoulder shot looking up at the man. This suggests that although he is of a lower class, in this instance, he has the power as the women in looking up at him. He is looking down on her as if to intimidate her and suggests that he knows he has the power and he is right because he is physically stronger than the woman and she gets very scared of him.

In conclusion In the clip the lower class are represented as dangerous and violent, whereas the upper class are represented as well spoken and physically weaker.