Luther notes

How Luther shows gender.

Mise en scene

The women is shown as innocent in the beginning of the clip.

This is shown as the light behind the women is bright and white giving the women an innocent look. This means that the production put bright lights in the background of the scene to create this look.

This makes the audience see the women clearly and without any shadows around her face which makes her look young and innocent. This is a stereotype of a women as this can make her look weak and depended on a man.

The mans face is in shadow when he is in the house. This is an opposite to the women's face with it being brightly lit.

Editor will have chosen this to give him a menacing look which over powers the women. This is making him look more powerful even when he is in her house.

 Choosing to do this will make the audience question their judgement on the character. As he was seen as a powerful man in a suit that could not be what he seems like a first look. This is also the first time we see his face close up and with the shadow we could not see it properly which gives the impression he is hiding something. This could subliminally make the audience worry or question his motives and why he is there.

Camera

The women is also seen as innocent due to the high angle of the camera.

The camera was set up as high angle so we have to look down at her meaning it looks like we have more power than her.

This shows her as a weaker character due to the fact the audience start by looking down at this women. This means they could see her as weak and innocent as she does have a powerful presence it is seen as weak. This makes her look like a target. This could mean the audience already views her as a victim due to her seeming lack of power.

Luther has a powerful presence when at the crime scene.

This is shown by the low camera angle meaning that we look up to him in the centre of scene.

This shows him as a powerful male character. This furthers the view that the male characters are powerful. This view was created by the camera crew to mean we had to look up at him. This gives him a powerful look. As it school a child will look up a teacher which makes the teacher have more power in that setting. This means that when the audience has to look up at Luther giving him power before he has even spoken a word.

Editing 

Lucien looks like a powerful character.

This is due to the large amount of screen time he has.

The editors have chosen to do this so that the audience focuses a lot on him and get to know the most about him. This will also make him look powerful as we see the most of him. He also gives us a powerful look as he is often in the centre of the screen meaning the audience focus on him. This furthers the scene of his powerful presences. 

The crime scene has blood background blurred.

This is done to mean we only see what the director wants us to see.

I believe that the editors only do this mean we have to find out information though the characters giving them more power. It also means that they is power given to the Luther as he is the one reading it meaning the audience gain information from him. It also intrigues the audience to what to know more however the audience have to rely on 2  male dectives and 1 female officer to give us the information meaning they are the most powerful people in the scene.

Sound

Lucien's music is menacing but powerful giving him more power.

This is done to show their is another side to this professional looking man.

The sound engineers did this as a non- diegetic sound to give the audience an idea that this man is dangerous but powerful. It also makes the audience thing more about what is going on and not take him at face value. It also sublunary tell the audience something bad is going to happen before the women in the scene knows what is going on. This makes the audience feel more powerful than the women as they have more of an idea of what is going to happen.

Lucien's speech is slow, powerful and controlling over the women.

This is done to further create Lucien's sense of power over the women in the scene.

The director chose for Lucien to speak like that to create an also scary character. This is because they are using the serotype of a horror film were the bad person speaks slowly to create fear into the victim. They also did this to mean it took more time so him to get his point across meaning the women looks weak compared to him as she doesn't interrupt him or question him she just tries to walk away from him.