The editing techniques and the gender representations say a lot about power in this clip of Life on Mars. The first obvious representation of power is when the lady walks towards the man to ask a question about a case. This immediately shows the audience that man has a higher status in the workplace than the woman, or that she may be looking for his approval.
The eye-line match technique used when the man is looking at the computer whilst he’s talking to the woman could suggest that he doesn’t respect her opinion and that he has more important things to concentrate on.
In the next scene the man rings the woman to ask her about her progress on the case. He then finds out that she is in some trouble and his natural male instinct is to go and save her
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