Stuart Rush A2 Video Task 2010

480 x 249 ratio

Produced by channel 4 this is a episode in a ongoing series which have the same main objective 'swaping two wives and showing them a different life style'
Starts off with a narraition explaining the familes, is male, with a simple monologe. (As it is clear there target is, its for a fairly educated working class audience.
Camera angles are quite simplistic, they invove lot of medium shots, and long shots to establish characters a location (mis en scene).
This program has a contrived format that plays on stereotypes, they deliberately put a square pig in a round hole, in doing that it makes good television.
One mother is very layed back, loves to go out and get involved within parties and self pampering, shes lazy and leaves all her work (cooking and cleaning) for the boyfriend to sort out.
The second mother has a complete differnce perspective on how life works, she is very organized, likes to be occupied and involved withing making the children happy. THe man in the house hold does nothing within the house. He belives that its a womans job the to do the chores as he has no time. But as we see, he does have the time and space to do it.
In this paticular episode there is a good result/ conclusion as both females of the family relise they both have been blinded by there set ways.
I think the ideas behinf this paticular producting is, one to create drama between each other, as family sterotypes usally clash, and two to show how familes at the other end of the spectrum live(displaing different situations).