Youtube Clip Analysis

M: The setting of this scene is on a battle filed full of dead bodies and blood.

The scene is full of masucline men making it a pairiarchal society.

The main effect used through the whole scene is mainly slow motion. This is used to increase tension over the audience. The slow motion is also used to show the power of a spratan, for example when Leeonidas throws the spear, the slow motion effect shows how power the throw is.

The ending shot is a low angle shot of Leeonidas breathing his last breath before he is killed withh a millin shots. The low angle shot shows, although he has lost the battle his being is still superior.

Another shot used is a 360 angle shot, the camera circles Leeonidas when he struggling to get up, this shot is a close up to show his facial expressions. 'My queen!....and my wife....my love' are the last words he says which shows that his wife is the most important thing within his life. he only realises this when he has failed.

I: The ideologies put across from this clip, is that it is a pairiarchal scoety and a male dominant society where women don't exist on the battle filed, this shows that females still have their roles of sitting home doing chores and house wife roles. The whole battle field is full of men showing that all men have the power to look after their family.

Leeonidas is the main chracter which shows that his power is the most important thing, but when he looses that power, his was blinded and then reliased that his wife was the most important thing.

The Persian king shows differnt ideologies, although he contains females feautures of piercings and dark make up and eye liner, this shows that he may be in touch with his inner feminity, by caring what he looks like. His voice may be very deep, which is a contrast of a very femininie man with a deep voice.

G: The genre is an action and adventure, the action is shown through the battle and weponry. the adventure is shown through the low key lighting horizons and setting.

R: The representations shown through the scene are the representations of male dominance and feamle house wifes.

Male dominance is shown through the paitriarchal society and the superior shot of a powerless protaginist.

The representation of the female house wife is shown through how Leeoniodas mentions is wife before death as women ar not present but she is at home worrying about him in the battle.

The last representation is of the NEW MAN, this is shown through the charcater image, although he may contain masuclinity and the crave for power like evry man, he has deicied to shown his inner feminitty on the outside.

A: The audience is targted through the genre and gory battles. The genre will target people who like action genre's and people who like to watch adventure films.

I: The Institution of this film is unavailiable from the cip, as this clip is just a scene from the film

N: The narrative structure of this clip doesn't follow TODOROV's theory, the whole film may, but tis clip doesn't, as the protaginist tries to kill the king and but to and dies himself, this shows that the ending is not resovled and Leeonidas's power has not been regained