exam practice cuffs

Why was the pre watershed scheduling of 8pm significant in terms of the representation they could offer? (3marks) 

Yellow highlighted is where it links back to the question. 
In purple its the three points. 

Its significant how Cuffs is before the watershed because cuffs have a lot of representations,they address a lot of things that families  or people do not like to talk about. Firstly they show a behind of a naked man, on a nudest beach. Then they show a suicide attempt with graphic shots of the arm and then there is actual suicide, a man who hung himself. They also address gay men.This is significant because people or families do not talk about these events that has happened and its not really for little kids or 10 year olds who might be watching with their families to see graphic shots of self harm.  A lot of their content is more for adults. Some families might find the suicide scenes too graphic and disturbing for their children. 



How were the following areas represented in the episode: Ethnicity, Gender Sexuality 
(10 marks)

The episode is a good historic document of political, culture, social climate of the 2000s.

In terms of Ethnicity, they show a positive outlook towards race because the one of the main characters is a black policeman is shown as the hero. However ethnicity is also shown as negative because a white male attacks a black young person in a racist attack. This is a realistic representation because the U.K is still very racist. In the 80s and 90s black people was always portrayed as the bad person but now society is less racist however there is still ignorant people who are racist which has been highlighted through Brexit.

The episode shows gender quite negative, the gender is more focused on males in this episode the gender equality is not shared out. They portray the females as not very hardworking people and like they are not very good at their job and that they are too dumb to realise a crime happened right in front of them because they was too busy talking about how attractive Jake was  This is showing how the gender equality is not shared out fairly. Its portraying the males are better than the women. They also show the olde police officer as a women who sleeps around. In tern this is not a fair representation and its seems the writer is a bit sexist.

Sexuality is shown in this episode as positive. The setting is in Brighton, which is suggesting its positive because Brighton is known as the gay capital. This relates to political situations because in 2015 David cameron legalised gay marriage. however in the episode the main character Jake Vicars who is gay, is in a scene where he is in the shower and the back ground music is very feminine which is stereotyping him as feminine. Also Jake is portrayed as not knowing what to do and that he is not very skilled so it could be suggesting that he is helpless and not that good because of his sexuality. It also links back to society because now a days more people are more open about being gay.