Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of gender in an extract from eastenders.

In the live episode from Eastenders gender is representated through the mise-en-scene, sound, camera shots and editing.

Within the mise-en-scene; Janine, the women who everyone hates is wearing very plain rather masculine casual clothing, which excludes her from everybody else who is wearing smart, formal clothing, this also creates a void between her and all the smartly dresses glamourous wedding guests, her costume also shows how isolated she is. The colours of the costumes also connotes their status as, Peggy; an older women, who runs the pub, is wearing a very glamorous costumewhich is purple, the use of this colour connotes royality and upper class, this also shows the strength of older women in society. The young girl, Lucy is wearing a very revealing top, which represents her as a `sex object` and perhaps shows her inferiority to men; this is particularly apparant when her fathers enemy, Phil acts very violently towards the teenager. Many of the males are wearing suits which are darker colours, which represent them as being smartly dressed, however the use of dark colours represents their true characters and the way they act violently towards women.

The lighting is mainly non-ambient lighting as it is set at night time.

The camera shots that are used show the reactions between characters in conversations. Close up shots are used, however not very frequently they were mainly used to show stacey in a heated argument with her husband, his father and uncle, within the argument two person shots and over the shoulder shots are frequently used, they empahsise the way that Bradley, Max and Jack are crowding around Stacey and being very dominant within the argument. The males body language in this argument is very aggresive and dominant towards the women. The males in the extract are shown as typical white british, working class, males; although they are fairly violent towards the women. As far as the extract goes, all the men are hetrosexual, which represents their macho-like and masculinity.

The sound in the extract is mainly diegetic; in the streets outside scenes; people walking in the street, movements, shutting of doors, at bianca and rickys wedding in the pub the sound also consists of mainly diegetic sounds; movement, dialouge, glasses tapping together, however there is non-diegetic sounds in the background that being music, the non-diegetic soundtrack is particularly apparant in the scene in the pub cellar, where Janine and Peggy are having an argument, the use of putting these two women together for an arugment, creates differences and opposites because of their costumes; being glamourous and unglamourous, and the women being; young and old.

In conclusion, the extract represents gender in a way that men are superior to women, and men act in a violent or portective manner towards women.