Representation Of Age

Representation Of Age

We watched a clip from the channel 4 drama series Humans, for the task we examined how a scene from the show represents the topic of age in a world where humans and robots live in society together.

Camera Work
When the scene starts it takes an establishing panning shot of the inside of the older characters house, this allows the audience to see how the character acts inside his own home. When he answers the door there is a establishing shot of the house he lives in, his big house allows us to recognise he is more well off than other people in the show and his house is defiantly expensive, but at the end of the scene we learn he'd rather stay with an older robotic model than a newer version, this shows that even the elderly people in society can form an emotional attachment to these non-human synths. However when offered a new robot they offer him a model with older features whereas all the other synths in the show are based and styled on younger, more attractive people, this shows the rift between the ages as older people are put with older looking robots. When the sellers of the robots knock on the house door it focuses on a sign of "No Visitors", this shows that in a time where robots have a far to striking resemblance to real people, and stereotypically older people are seen as people who are more likely to be scared of the changing world and would to refer to become secluded inside their home.

Sound