Representation of Regional Identity

What is regional identity?

Regional identity is identifying a person's identity which is planted in the setting, speech, costumes etc and the region they live in.

How can you identify regional identity?

• Setting
• Accents 
• Dialogue
• Props
• Make up
• Class of characters
• Costumes etc

P.E.E Example

•Point – your comment about the area of representation

e.g.  Youth is represented through diegetic sound.

•Evidence – your micro element that tells us this

e.g. The dialogue is colloquial.

•Explain – link the two

e.g.  This conforms to a stereotypical view of young teenagers, that they are rebellious in speaking their own language.

Shameless Clip 1:

- common accents

- clothing that is rough although they're trying to look nice

- unshaven and unkempt haircuts

- swearing 'corse i will you daft git'

- common council street

- refers to a baseball bat when not knowing who's at the door

P.E.E

Regional identity is represented in Shameless by the the setting. Set in a council estate with dogs barking and people out at night conforms that this is a working class place.

Shameless Clip 2:

- pub toilets, women.

- common accents with lots of swearing 'get in here you dirty bitch'

- sleezy make up and common clothing.

- all working or lower class

- lesbians - breaking stereotypes

P.E.E

Identity is also represented through dialogue as words like 'fanny' and 'dirty bitch' are used to reinforce that they are in a common place and are of low status.

Brookside Clip:

- street mixed with young and old people

- Liverpudlian accents - sounds almost common

- lots of yelling and half sentences

- boy racer cars to reinforce they're not of high class

- minimal make up on the women characters

- chavs, tracksuits and slang dialogue

P.E.E 

Regional identity is represented through dialogue and clothing, with common slang accents and casual tracksuits, the clip enforces a common place with lots of physical arguments. Identity is also represented through diegetic sound, no over track music is played when the fight breaks out and all the shouting is conforming that this is a working estate.

The Only Way Is Essex:

- big posh house

- Essex accent, almost sounding common.

- funny abbreviations 'reem'

- bot-ox party, common feel?

- drinking champagne to be posh

- sleezy make up - a bit over the top

- lots of fake tan and done nails, trying too hard to be made up

- working class trying to be middle class

- dresses and heels to an afternoon event at a house

P.E.E

Identity is used in this by Mise En Scene, the lady's are heavily made up for an afternoon party and are drinking champagne to try and show they are higher class, their cheaper versions of branded clothes shows that they aren't quite middle class. Almost seem like they're trying to be Chelsea girls.

Made in Chelsea:

- travelling to France on whim

- posh London, Chelsea accents

- hardly any swearing and no abbreviations 

- really clean finished applied make up

- hair products and the clean 'rough look'

- middle class rich characters

- nice clothing, really posh and never repeats a look

- seem to not know what a relationship is

P.E.E

Identity is shown in this clip by dialogue, they are talking about jetting off to France because they feel like it and because they're middle class they haven't learned the ways of growing up and knowing what a proper relationship is. They pick up and drop each other when they feel like it, and their vocabulary almost seems like they talk down to one another. Overall their posh accents and minimal swearing reinforces their high class.