evaluation part 5

Our characters in the film Half-way home are British and this has been represented to the audience through the stereotype that British people drink tea. This is done using mise en scene in the shot were the female makes herself a hot drink which we decided should be tea because of where she comes from and other cultures relate tea drinkers to British society. We also represented soldiers as people who are distant from family as in our title sequence we never showed the male and female in the same scene suggesting they are apart from each other, we tried to emphasise this a lot using mise en scene and cinematography to create symbolism like the couples items being apart and distant this is done to reflect that he is a soldier and away goes away from home.

 Our title sequence also represents men as having more outdoor life styles and doing more active activates as the man is shooting outside compared to the woman who is only showed indoors. The title sequence is also stereotypical of women suggesting they like to look at magazines as the female character observes a wedding magazine when planning for her own wedding.

The man also uses a gun (air rifle) in the title sequence this is aimed to express that the man is in the army as they are usually the only people allowed to shoot so by showing him holding a gun the aim was to present him as a soldier which he is. Being a soldier he is also presented as strong and dominant this is a stereotypical view and attitude about men this is important because the male character fight his way to get back home to his fiancée in the film.