How Is Regional Identity shown in Doc Martin?

Regional identify refers to the act of identifying a person with specific geographical region of a nation. Regional identity is used allot in TV dramas in the world today to separate groups of characters to give a TV drama depth. In the extract of Doc Martin, regional identity is show to the audience in different and specific ways that the audience can understand. The idea we get from the extract is that people from cities and the inner city are far more educated and understood than people who live in the countryside.

The outline of the clip is that Doc Martin has been moved to the countryside in a new office where he is greeted by locals throughout the day. The main character is Doc Martin who is a highly skillful and educated Doctor who comes from the inner city this so far follows the stereotype given by the TV Drama. The way in which Doc Martin is portrayed to the audience is given by low angle shots looking up at him and mid shots showing his body posture showing he is a confident man. The audience gains the feeling that he is a higher class than the other villagers from the first scene where Doc Martin has the local plumbers in his office. They are dressed in overalls which was be for their normal job but there Literature is bad compared to Doc Martin’s with little words pronounced correctly this would follow the rules of the stereotype. There is a second plumber who is a teenager who seems to be more intelligent as he talks about meanings in depth showing not all countryside’s are dumb and less intelligent. The plumbers are sitting down as well lower than Doc Martin meaning they are seen to be less superior to him. There is not much editing in the clip with many shots that flow freely giving the audience the effect of being in the scene themselves.

The pipes break in Doc Martins office and the plumbers cannot fix it showing the may be less dense than inner city folks this shows they might be less motivated than inner city people as well. The costumes of the characters in the extract show how people can portray others to be less intelligent.

The sound that is involved in the clip makes the atmosphere more chaotic for the audience which grips their attention even more. There is allot of diegetic sound in clip such as dog barking, phone ringing, people speaking and water running all at the same time to again add chaos to the clip.

Another character is added into the extract now this is a woman wearing yellow. She does not follow the stereotype of regional identity she is very well spoken without a countryside accent meaning she may have moved there recently or might have not adapted to the accent.

The camera shots that are all used in this extract show how Doc Martin is higher up than them and he is superior to them. As well as this jump cuts are used to revel new scenes however sometimes the scenes would jump quickly and sharply so the audience might forget what happened in the scene before.