Research Task• Research into the following stereotypes of regional identity:

– Northerners - Irish/Southern and Northern Irish– Southerners– Scottish– Welsh– Scouses– Geordies– Mancs– Brummies

• How are they constructed? Consider the following:– Dialogue/ dialect– Clothing– Location/setting– Props– Costume– Make-up– Class/status

• Choose an image of stereotypical character that epitomises this regional identity

Notice how regional identity is often linked to social class?

You will need to carry out a

textual analysis of four technical

areas:

• camerawork

• mise-en-scene

• editing

• sound

Create a baseline of what the

stereotypical

representations are so we

can compare representations

we analyse to these

expectations.

We will see some dramas

which CHALLENGE

stereotypes.

Get an idea of the technical

conventions in television dramas so

we can comment if a drama deviates

from those conventions and its effect.

Regional Identity

Northerners, Southerners, Welsh, Scottish, Scousers, Geordies, Mancs

& Brummies

Northerners• Northerners, with their jolly, happy-go-lucky attitudes, proper water and brass

bands are stereotypically more approachable and better at making mashed potato than their southern peers.

• Loud, sociable, not afraid to say what they want and no-nonsense attitude• Friendly and more approachable than southerners• Language changes, don’t say all words – slang• Builders, hard workers, uneducated and gossip a lot• Working class, confrontational – Jeremy Kyle• Dialogue/Dialect: Pronunciation of words is awful• Clothing/Costume: They’re clothing is terrible and old fashioned• Location/Setting: Is quiet and away from everyone else (countryside)• Make up: • Class/Status: Not very wealthy

Southerners• Class/Status: Rich and quite wealthy• Clothing/Costume: Well dressed with up to date clothing and formal clothing• Make up: More than northerners due to the fact they can afford it, a lot of

foundation for women• Dialogue/Dialect: Pronunciation is good and vocabulary is widened • Location/Setting: Noisy place, buildings and night life is lively• Healthy living and a good lifestyle• Mother’s boy – looked after by family, not independent• Middle class, known as ‘southern twats’• Non confrontation – not on Jeremy Kyle Show

Scousers• Usually rich, glamorous, own big properties and have expensive

lifestyles• Hard working environment• Class/Status: Rich and wealthy• Location/Setting: Surrounded by big houses and nice buildings• Clothing/Costume: Own distinctive style which is unique and

fashionable• Dialogue/Dialect: Unintelligent talking and vocabulary is poor• Make Up: A lot of make up with fake eyelashes and big hair –

given a ‘fake’ look

Geordies• Make Up: Caked up in make up, making themselves look less

appealing• Clothing/Costume: Up to date with fashion but go for an

informal look rather formal• Class/Status: Rich and wealthy in most areas with good paid

jobs• Setting/Location: Noisy areas, trendy buildings with a football

stadium signifying its expense within the town• Dialogue/Dialect: Chavy language, informal talk

Scottish People• Tough, masculine, violent, stingy• Independence from England – history: own money but is the same is pounds

• Rab C Nesbitt:• Council house• Weather is bad, rain• Big drinkers• Working class – fighting and aggressive• Uneducated kids

Welsh People• Gavin & Stacey:• Get on with things, take what they’re given• Run down areas – poor – countryside• Commonly known as ‘sheep shaggers’• Low status, poor economically – uneducated• Sexualised• All men’s choir• Working class – mining tradition

Mancs• Accent changed the way people talk from other regions e.g. through

Coronation Street and bands like Oasis• Dialogue/Dialect: They pronounce vowels differently, words ending in

‘er’, are sounded different. Developed from old Lancastrian dialects. Chavy language, informal and slang words used.

• Quite a rough and scratty area with a lot of gun crime• Clothing: Tacky clothes despite the big shopping centre• Make up: Wannabe WAG’s, a lot of fake people (especially woman) so

loads of make up worn• Class/Status: Not very rich, low and working class mainly• Location/Setting: Rough, council estates, not many nice areas. A lot of

poverty

Brummies• Dialogue/Dialect: traditional accent comes from the adjacent Black Country –

sometimes people are mistaken by others for speaking like Brummies. Strong accent and unintelligent.

• Location/Setting: Poor area, not very nice looking and city is council estate. Rich areas with big houses on the outside of city, poor, estate areas in the city

• Class/Status: Have a rich and poor side, majority is poor• History: Used to be a lot of factories where rich people used to be around but in

modern day, it has disappeared and now it has gone to a poor area• A lot of ethnic minority; Asians and Blacks. They talk different, have their own

way of communicating i.e. slang• Make up: A lot of make up, given a trampy look with street style swag• Clothing/Costume: Trampy look within the city and a lot of street style clothing

but have their class shown tooBy Any Means is a TV Drama based in Birmingham