Breaking bad is an American crime drama television series.vIn the extract of breaking bad that we watched, there were two main characters, these were Walter (a chemistry teacher) and Jesse. Walter is a chemistry teacher diagnosed with ling cancer who turns to making methto secure his family's finances. Jesse is walter's former student, Jesse, is a drug dealer who partners up with Walter and makes meth. You would not expect this of a teacher. This extract is set in a house and Jesse and Walter are trying to get rid of the two other drug dealers bodies before they get caught and Walter suggests that they should dissolve the body and they flip a coin, to decide who does each stage of getting rid of the bodies. Lots of loud and aggressive tone is used between Jesse and Walter in this extract.
In today's media studies lesson, we watched an extract from breaking bad. The extract was 6 minutes long and we watched it four times. Whilst watching the extract I had to take notes on the following techniques:
-camera angles
-mise en scene (costume, props and setting)
-sound
-editing
In the extract, it used many of these techniques to represent drug dealers. Each time we watched it I could focus on one of these techniques and make notes on them. After we watched the extract four times, we were given a question that we had to write an essay on, this question was:
"How are drug dealers represented on this extract of breaking bad?"
In the essay, I had to include everything that I had just wrote down, but explain why these represent drug dealers. For example, an extreme close up was used on the drug dealer, which shows he is worried about something and this subverts a sterotypical drug dealer because you would expect a drug dealer to be confident about everything they are doing. Whilst writing the essay, I had to make sure I referred back to the question on how each point represented drug dealers, instead of just stating what techniques were used.
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