Thursday 8 January 2015


The location is within the manor, meaning that the people are upper class and have money, therefore they have power. The costumes that the maids have on are uniforms, so they all have to look the same, but the lady and the lord have different clothes on showing the obvious different in class between the richer and poorer people within the manor. The colours upstairs are gold, which could represent royalty and richness. Upstairs is also very well lit and bright with big windows, representing the upper class as better. Whereas the servants quarters are dim lit and quite dull, this shows they are below the lady and the lord as they have less light.
The dialogue between the lord and the maid, she is corrected by him showing he is more educated than her. The maid also has a northern accent showing she is from a poor part of the country, as the north is seen as all working class and poor people who all work in manual labour. The birds outside are also associated with the upper class as they are heard in shot with the lady of the manor, and as birds are a part of nature, this could mean that upper class are implied to be natural and normal, so anything different isn't normal. The music gets more tense when the maid walks out of the room, showing she is getting more annoyed at the lady, this could show her working class side coming through, as working class people are seen as violent.

The camera is shot so that the maid and the lady aren't in the same shot together, which represents the divide between upper class and working class people, aa upper class people are not suppose to be seen with working class people. The shot reverse shot between the servants in their quarters shows that there is conflict between them, a they disagree with their views on the lady and the lord.

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