Humans: Key Scene (First 2 Episodes of the Episode (buying Anita)

Humans: Key Scene (First 2 Episodes of the Episode (buying Anita)

 Genre Codes and Conventions:
Genre Theory
Genre Fluidity:
Camera work (framing, composition, shot types, angle, position and movement):
Lighting/colour:
Editing:
Narrative construction:
Sound:
Mise-en-scnene:

Identifiable Sci-fi music
News readings edited in
Establishing shot of the area they live in.
Shows the opening of her to help signify the sci-fi genre.
The slow pan up to the extreme close up of her face reinforces that she is pretty.
Sound as you turn them on - ,showing that she is a machine.
Lab settings in the opening sequence.
Eye iconography - you can tell the machines from the humans by their eye colour - green for robots. Eyes for humans is ow you can determine emotion.
Referencing previous sci-fi texts such as blade runner with the eye iconography.
Shot of the robots in the factory all lined up together shows they are not treated as humans.
Low angle pf the moon from the factory - sci-fi - shows lack of freedom because she wants to leave. Moon represents space - space is open and free. Binary oppositions between space and the factory.
Stereotypical British family. Warm colours in the home opposed to cold colours in factory.

Todorov's theory of equilibrium in the first episode:

Two narratives: Family, and the group of people finding Anita.
Narrative constantly disrupting: Anti initially getting stolen and when the family get Anita.

Levi Strauss: Structuralism:
Binary oppositions/diametrically oppositions in the first episode.

Hannah Hoch: "The Beautiful Girl" 1919-20
Aligning women with objects - body being objectified.

Metropolis 1927:
Robot - sexualised

Blade Runner 1982:
Sexualised character - designed for pleasure, however,

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