Discuss the ways in which age and gender are constructed in an extract from Blackpool

• Camera shot and movement
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene

Costume

• Father - very colourful shirt; bright pink this suggests the 70s era, connotes he might be stuck in his ways or looks to the past, he has a 70s haristyle and sideburns this reinforces the look of the 70s era.
• Mother and Father are wearing the same colour this unites them both.
• The daughter and her boyfriend are also wearing the same colour palette of grey and navy blue this unites them both and shows that they are of a different age to the parents.

Mise-en-scene

• Father is more dominant; does most of the talking, vast amount of close ups of him, dominates the mise-en-scene, we can see he is a traditionalist.
• There is a sense of recognition betweent he father and the boyfriend, as if they somehow know each other.
• Father is jealous of his daughters boyfriend becuase he cannot control her anymore and he may be upset because she is not her `daddys little girl` anymore. This is paternal jealousy.
• Father has an aggresive attitude; he pushes the glass firmly onto the table, he also has a rascist and homephobic attitude as he says "lesbian refugees"
• Binary opposites between the two couples is signified using costume.
• When the two couples stand up and the coffee table to inbetween them, there is a divide between them, which represents the divide between there generations and values in life.